Tag Archives: LAWYERS

Senior Vice-President and private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil has clashed with colleague lawyer and #FixTheCountry convenor Mawuse Oliver Barker-Vormawor on whether or not the police have the right to arrest any person. Mr Bentil had asserted police have the right to make an arrest but Mr Barker-Vormawor refuted the claim …

Chief Executive Officer of defunct gold dealership company MenzGold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, says he has directed his lawyers to appeal a bench warrant issued for his arrest. The Adentan Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday, November 4, 2021, issued a bench warrant for the …

The President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law, Mr Wonder Victor Kutor, has noted that 65 per cent of lawyers called to the Gambia Bar this year are Ghanaians who failed the law entrance examinations in Ghana. After Ghana failed them, he explained, they …

Lawyers in Anambra State on Monday held a peaceful march in Awka over the rising cases of insecurity and the murder of their colleague, Francis Onwuachi, by gunmen. The lawyers, under the aegis of Committee of Chairmen and Secretaries of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), also announced that they will stay away …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has selected a crack team of nine legal practitioners to serve as spokespersons for its petition to challenge the results of the December 7 elections. The NDC filed the petition at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 30, on behalf of former president John Dramani Mahama by his lawyers. …

Top-notch lawyers’ names have been brought to the public known as those who will represent the biggest opposition party in court following the 2020 elections dispute. It is established that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has come out with a lot of information about the Electoral commission declaration and is …

A dramatic scene was recorded at the Osun state magistrate court in Osogbo, after a suspect identified as Ige coughed while his two-count charge of assault was being read. The suspect was arraigned in court alongside Rasaq Sunday, Wasiu Adeyanju and Samson Ogunleye for assaulting one Lateef Kareem on April 6, at Olugun street in the …

Two Ghanaian lawyers undergoing a one-year pupilage at an Accra-based private law firm, Legal Ink Lawyers & Notaries, have been suspended after they became pregnant. The two lawyers, who are both expecting their first children, had done two and three months each of the 12-month pupillage. However, they were handed …

The Chief Justice has reiterated her stands on legal education in Ghana, JoyNews’ Maxwell Agbagba has reported. According to Sophia Akuffo, it is better to have few qualified lawyers to many with compromised quality. Speaking on the topic ‘Questing for Excellence’ at the 2019 University of Ghana Alumni Lectures, Justice …