Tag Archives: SUPREME

Kenya Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the election of Deputy President William Ruto as president of the country. The September 5 ruling by the 7-member court concludes a 14-day election petition that was challenging the outcome of the August 9 General Election. With the ruling by the Chief Justice Martha …

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga formally filed a petition challenging the election results in Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday, August 22 according to one of Odinga’s lawyers, Daniel Maanzo. The petition was filed online Monday morning with a physical copy expected to arrive at the court’s registry in Nairobi before the …

Amid criticism over President Akufo-Addo’s nomination of Justice Ernest Gaewu as a Supreme Court judge, Kwame Baffoe, alias Abronye, the Bono Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, has listed some justices of the superior courts who once held positions in political parties. Abronye, in attempt to diffuse the position by …

The Supreme Court has indicated that the section of the Narcotic Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019) which allows a licence to be granted to an entity to cultivate a small quantity of cannabis, popularly referred to as “wee” in Ghana for industrial and medicinal purposes is unconstitutional. According to …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed four Justices to the Supreme Court pending parliamentary approval. Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, made the disclosure from the Presidency when he read the notice to Parliament. The list comprises three justices of the Court of Appeal and a Justice of the High …

After years of walking the corridors of the courts of Ghana to seek justice for the unfairness and deceit she suffered at the hands of a man who once gave her hopes of marriage, a ‘commercial sex worker’ has won her case at the Supreme Court of Ghana. Ama Serwaa’s …

Lawyers for the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, filed a supplement to their statement of the case in the Supreme Court following the order of the court on Tuesday. The Assin North MP had been given 14 days to file a …

Hundreds of protesters descended on the United States Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v Wade precedent that recognised women’s constitutional right to abortion. The sweeping ruling by the court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, was set to vastly change American life with …

At an event to sign the bipartisan gun control bill into law, President Joe Biden makes further remarks on the Supreme Court’s seismic abortion ruling. “I know how painful and devastating the decision is for so many Americans,” he says. Asked whether the court is a broken institution, Biden replies: …

Clinics have begun closing in some US states after a Supreme Court ruling on Friday removed American women’s constitutional right to abortion. About half of states are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans after the court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. Of these 13 have outlawed abortion …