Tag Archives: TRIAL

State prosecutors have filed a fresh application which seeks to haul the two sureties who satisfied the bail conditions of former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) Sedinam Tamakloe Attionu over her continuous absence from the trial. The latest move follows a similar application which …

June 6 and 7, 2022, have been set by a Sekondi High Court as dates to kickstart the full trial of the case in which a Jomoro resident is challenging the eligibility of the current Member of Parliament for the Jomoro Constituency in the Western Region to contest as MP …

Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, the judge in the trial of former COCOBOD boss and two others, stunned the court again when he directed a sick witness to report to court irrespective of his health condition. The first defence witness, Mr. Charles Tetteh Dodoo, had presented a two-week excuse duty notice …

Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be allowed out of the prison to appear in person before the commission of inquiry on state capture. Zuma is expected to appear before a Pietermaritzburg court next week Tuesday. In a court order dated 4 August, Koen said the hearing will be …

Patricia de Lille will be in court today for Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial as the first witness to take the stand. While the state is ready to proceed with the trial, the proceedings are likely to be adjourned as Zuma’s new legal team will have to familiarise itself with the …

  A Cape Coast High Court on Monday set the grounds for the trial of Assin North Member of Parliament (MP), James Gyakye Quayson’s dual citizenship at a case management conference. The Court presided over by Mr Justice Kwasi Boakye, scaled down about 15 issues presented by the counsels in …

  The criminal case against a 44-year-old soldier in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) charged with attempted murder after allegedly knowingly and intentionally infecting his partner with HIV has been set down for trial. The accused, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, appeared in the Pretoria …

  Lawyer Nutifafa Nutsukpi, counsel for the second and third accused persons in the ongoing trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, former COCOBOD CEO and Seidu Agongo, businessman, says Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the former Senior Minister directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to take over the investigation because …

An Accra Circuit Court will on March 25, start the trial of Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, aka, Bulldog, who allegedly threatened President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a video telecast on air. Nana Ama Agyemang Mcbrown, an actress and hostess of a United Television programme upon which the infraction with the law occurred, …

Claims by CID investigator, Chief Inspector Thomas Prempeh Mercer that former COCOBOD boss, Dr. Stephen Opuni, ordered scientists at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), to shorten the testing period for agrochemicals and spraying machines have been discredited by CID’s own documents. The High Court in Accra, hearing the case …