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Contempt of Court: It’s a ghost of Ghana’s common law system – Lawyer

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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Is AFRC, P/NDC back again?

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    Since before independence we have been plagued by all sorts of ruthless , vicious and willfully authoritative govts that all have one thing in common , denying the right of free speech and proper analysis of the motives and a ...
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  • No Benefit for Citizenshipship? 10 years ago

    U.S Judges: Criticised & Respected; `

    Ghanaian Judges: Feared & ......

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    Law practitioner is more experienced in the practicalities of law than a lecturer who did a PhD without the law practice.

    If Opoku Agyemang can practice law, he must first do the law practice course and stop poking his rat ...
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  • LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

    Contempt of Court and Free Speech are not comfortable bedfellows. Simply, Contempt of Court exists to protect a free trial, due to prejudicial reporting an obvious attempt to denigrate the judicial process. But at the same ti ...
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  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    The nine judges should be judging contempt case when other paid Judges has nothing doing. The office of the supreme court dont really care about the nine judges because they are greedy and want to judge every single case that ...
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  • amicus curia 10 years ago

    firstly,i know no law.but is not factuual that inquirer,despatch,al hajj also published certain things about kpmg report the same time the daily guide publised certain things about the report,and is it not equally true that t ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    We should critisize the court when it is worthy doing,but not to the extent of blackening their judicial system's operation.
    FREEDOM OF SPEECH,THEREFORE HANGS IN A BALANCE,HERE.
    WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THIS:
    THE PRESIDE ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    The judiciary like any of the arms of government is not immune to criticism.

    This panel on the petition case should be ONLY mindful of the case before it, not their ego. Like any citizen the judges are not above criticism ...
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  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    Contempt of court in your house. These guys didnt get up in court and made those comment. If it a crime to make comment about ungoing cases, everybody is a criminals.
    The nice Judges didnt get good advice before call the to ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Thank You!

    Sad that too many a Ghanaian prefer to remain ignorant

  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    Try to educate yourself rather than rejoice in your friend's ignorance. Read a little bit about what contempt of court is before supporting any nonesense.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Thank you!

    With people of your knowledge and intelligence, we deserve to have a Prosecutor, Judge and Executioner in one person like Atuguba

  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    A charge of "contempt of court" is usually brought before the judge whose court is the subject of the offence. If you can't face the heat, don't offend the judge. This is a common rule of thumb. If you are in contempt of Atug ...
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  • Donboli 10 years ago

    Atuguba Court did not ask Ghanaians not to comment on what the court is saying.
    Atuguba didnt give any directive to what can be report or not. How can something be contempt without directive. If Atuguba said people shouldnt ...
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  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    It is well known that the burden of knowing what the law says on any given topic rests with the individual not with the courts or its judges and magistrates. Contempt of court is enshrined in legal procedure and practice. If ...
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  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    No! I am not a criminal because I do not disobey orders of any court brazingly. If you are ignorant of the law why not seek advice rather than make yourself a laughing stock, Donboli? There is a crime of contempt of court in ...
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  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    It is not possible for contempt of court to endanger free speech. Contempt of court is a specific offence aimed at those who exceed the limits of free speech in matters before a court. By its definition, therefore, it can not ...
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  • JOE ATISO 10 years ago

    WHEN WOULD YOU TROKOSI TRIBALIST,IDIOTS,COWARDS AND IGNORANT BUFFOONS LEARN TO REASON?YOU ARE HIDING BEHIND NAMES THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND TO SPEW YOUR GARBAGE AND HATRED FOR AKANS FORGETTING THAT NOTHING LASTS FOREVER!IF KU ...
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  • Ajavuk Da Jajak 10 years ago

    You are a really funny chap and I enjoyed reading your entertainment. It beats Jaguar Jokers by miles! Gave me quite a laugh to know that out there, there are jokers like you who have nothing in their heads except insults. Th ...
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  • samdoug 10 years ago

    Our judges should know they are not ANGELS and so Long as they are HUMANS, they are not above reproach when they make mistakes. They should not freighten People with comtempt.

    May GOD bless our Homeland GHANA

  • Nii Lante Okunka 10 years ago

    Kudos Samdoug,I think our Supreme Court Justices were Ego-tripping.How can a fellow citizen walk free after "ordering" his fellow ethnic group to go out and kill Ewes and Gas while a poor editor languishes in jail because he ...
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  • dennis yao 10 years ago

    could the judges not have fined kuranchie?

  • DJ DAABODAABO. 10 years ago

    SC JUDGES THUOGHT, JAILLING THE TWO CONTEMPTUOUS GURUS WOULD LIMIT PUBLIC PANIC. SUCH IS HEFTY MISTAKE. ARROGANTS ARE NOW PUTTING THEIR PEDALS TO METALS TO SPEED CRISIS OF UTTERANCE JUDGEMENT SHOULD HAVE WAITED, JUDGES HEEL ...
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  • DJ DAABODAABO. 10 years ago

    KEN ILLUSTRATED WHAT HE SAW AT SC. ARE OUR JUDGES SOO DROWSY? SO NIGHTMARE FEATURES GHOST LAW TO APPREHEN KEN. NOTHING GHOSTLY CAN APPEAR.13th CEN. FOLKTALE. DEAD AND GONE CAN NOT BE INVOKED.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A visiting professor at Florida State University is giving a seminar on the supernatural. To get a feel for his audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in ghosts?" About 90 students raise their hands. "Well that’s ...
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  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    Looking at the picture, captioned, Kuranchie going to jail, you cannt help, but feel what justice in Ghana, had become in the last 30yrs. You will see nine police/militaty uniformed men, some with semi-automatic riffles, on t ...
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  • Ratty 10 years ago

    Nonsella.have u ever seen a ghost?

  • Opinion 10 years ago

    What is this banku lawyer saying..? I did not understand the point he's trying to make or, is he afraid of the prison sentence...? hahaha!!!

  • DODOWA 10 years ago

    Can’t believe sending these recalcitrant politicians to prison for contempt is fuelling the partisan debate to the detriment of truth, accountability and common sense. What befuddles me most is the way supposed intellectual ...
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  • Ahamed nazzy 10 years ago

    The judges decisionms are to be respected by all.it seems like boundaries of contenptious coments are within thier bowsome only, we just have to careful how speak.