DOSSIER: Law

Legal cases etc

• 10% of national cathedral funds can expand School of Law – Chris Ackumey (2021-10-23)
• 499 LLB students sue Ghana Law School Director, AG over entrance exams (2021-10-23)
• We don't speak to a chief like that - Pratt slams President Akufo-Addo (2021-10-23)
• Ghana School of Law has no space for 499 students – Akufo-Addo (2021-10-21)
• Stop the injustice now - Kwamena Duncan blasts Ghana School of Law (2021-10-21)
• Dissolve General Legal Council for failed leadership – Francis-Xavier Sosu (2021-10-21)
• Presidency reacts to concerns of law candidates denied admission (2021-10-21)
• Law Entrance Exams: General Legal Council behaving like 'tin gods' - Dr. Otchere-Ankrah (2021-10-21)
• ‘Contents of your petition are being reviewed’ – Bediatuo to aggrieved law students (2021-10-20)
• Law students converge at Independence Square to demand legal education expansion (2021-10-20)
• Law students hit the street to demonstrate (2021-10-20)
• Some students who didn’t write exams have been admitted to law school - Dafeamekpor alleges (2021-10-19)
• Spio-Garbrah sues Wontumi for calling him a thief (2021-10-19)
• Law students failure: Government should be blamed - Dafeamekpor (2021-10-19)
• Association of Law Students to stage a demonstration on October 20 (2021-10-19)
• GFL to drag CAGD to court over ‘no Ghana card no salary’ directive (2021-10-14)
• We are grateful Special Prosecutor allowed fairness to prevail - Mahama Ayariga's lawyer (2021-10-11)
• Law exam failures: Kpebu punches GLC over retrospective application of rule (2021-10-09)
• Knee-jerk approach to resolving issues with law school entrance exams bad – Kpemka (2021-10-09)
• Justice Marful-Sau told me I'll be successful - Dame pays tribute (2021-10-08)
• Most GLC members know next to nothing about legal education - Former Director (2021-10-07)
• Ghana School of Law SRC to petition Parliament over mass failure (2021-10-05)
• Law school entrance exams: Original intention was to admit 550 students – NALS (2021-10-05)
• Law school entrance exams: 499 more students weren't admitted despite obtaining 50% pass mark – NALS (2021-10-05)
• Law School entrance exam: People pass chemistry, let alone law – Manasseh blasts GLC over mass failure (2021-10-05)
• Publish results of Ghana School of Law entrance exams now - GLC told (2021-10-04)
• 2021 Law School entrance exam: Kwaku Azar demands candidates' raw scores under RTI (2021-10-04)
• Meet the youngest lawyer in Ghana, Ama A. DaCosta (2021-10-03)
• Manage your financial expectations – New lawyers told (2021-10-02)
• Good name is better than riches, don’t be corrupt – Chief Justice to 278 new lawyers (2021-10-02)
• Dumelo cries over mass failure at Law School Entrance Exam (2021-10-01)
• Strive to become super computer literates – Justice Appau to judges (2021-09-30)
• 65% of lawyers called to Gambia Bar are Ghanaians who failed entrance exams – SRC President (2021-09-29)
• Be careful with the country you choose to further your legal studies – 2,034 failed LLB candidates told (2021-09-29)
• Yaw Boafo elected Ghana Bar Association President (2021-09-15)
• Lawyers wearing gown, wig in ‘hot weather’ Ghana shows colonial mentality – Gyampo (2021-09-12)
• ASEPA’s petition against CJ a joke, I’m shocked it got this much attention – Samson Ayenini (2021-08-24)
• Deputy Prisons Director calls on Ghanaians to fight for removal of vagrancy laws (2021-08-19)
• Court charges UTAG with GH¢3,000 (2021-08-16)
• Romelu Lukaku has made a big mistake rejoining Chelsea – Yahaya Mohammed (2021-08-13)
• CHRAJ boss calls for removal of colonial laws targeting vagrants (2021-08-13)
• Marfo-Sau was learned – Oppong Nkrumah (2021-08-12)
• What late Supreme Court judge told Kwaku Azar about legal education reforms (2021-08-11)
• Net 2 TV’s Justice Kweku Annan 'runs away' from former IGP suit (2021-08-11)
• New rent law in the offing - Housing Minister hints (2021-08-11)
• New rent law in the offing - Housing Minister hints (2021-08-11)
• NDC's Kofi Annan sues Ghana Police Service, one other GH¢20m for damages (2021-08-10)
• Keep parading yourself as MP, you’ll soon realise you are alone – Afenyo-Markin to Assin North MP (2021-08-09)
• Saglemi Housing deal: Collins Dauda granted self-recognisance bail (2021-08-05)
• Assin North by-election will be very exciting – Political Scientist predicts (2021-08-01)
• This is criminality, I foresee the state charging him – Abdulai on Assin North MP's case (2021-07-31)
• NDC will win Assin North by-election if Akufo-Addo doesn’t use hooligans – Amaliba (2021-07-31)
• You abandoned Assin North MP in court – NPP’s Nimako taunts Amaliba (2021-07-31)
• CID invites former Assin North MP for interrogation (2021-07-31)
• General Legal Council charges lawyer Kwasi Afrifa with 9 counts of misconduct (2021-07-29)
• Chief Justice urges auctioneers to uphold integrity of the profession (2021-07-24)
• Sekondi High Court to determine Michael Nunoo's fate on Monday (2021-07-18)
• Young Ghanaian lawyers counselled to serve with truth and dedication (2021-07-02)
• Five granted bail under historic Justice For All virtual court sitting (2021-06-12)
• Don’t use the media to denigrate others for cheap publicity – Godfred Dame tells lawyers (2021-05-27)
• Retired teacher granted bail for building without permit (2021-05-17)
• Court to hear Assin North MP’s stay of proceedings application May 18 (2021-05-13)
• Chief Justice to set up tax court soon (2021-04-17)
• Chief Justice declares April 12 to 16 as Alternative Dispute Resolution Week (2021-04-09)
• Amend Article 293 of 1992 Constitution for govt’s appointees to face prosecution – Lawyer (2021-04-01)
• Strictly enforce planning laws - Asenso-Boakye to District Assemblies (2021-03-24)
• Ghana School of Law defers release of remarking results (2021-03-23)
• Asking Philemon Laar to resign as SRC President unlawful, vindictive - EFL to Ghana School of Law (2021-03-18)
• School of Law SRC President forced to resign over exams failure (2021-03-17)
• I’ve instructed my lawyers to withdraw my case against A-G over Domelevo’s saga - Kwaku Azar (2021-03-11)
• Assets declaration: CHRAJ clears Justice Pwamang, dismisses ASEPA claim (2021-03-08)
• Court restrains Rev Wovenu from managing ARS’s finances (2021-02-23)
• Lawyer rejects juror because of social media influence (2021-02-20)
• Can the apology of Muntaka heal the wound inflicted on our judges? - JUSAG (2021-02-08)
• Stop ‘wild, unsubstantiated allegations’, present petitions for investigations – JUSAG to Kevin Taylor (2021-02-02)
• Ghana School of Law records monumental increase in admissions (2021-01-22)
• Avoid the use of intemperate and offensive language - Chief Justice tells lawyers (2020-12-18)
• Don’t compromise on requirements of justice - Justice Gbadegbe (2020-12-04)
• Justice Gbadegbe cries in Court as he retires (2020-12-03)
• Ghana needs to train more lawyers for a just and fair society – Fmr GBA President (2020-11-18)
• University of Ghana School Of Law commences law in crisis zoom seminars (2020-11-17)
• Ghana needs more courts to expedite cases – Chief Justice (2020-10-21)
• High court strikes down GLC undertaking forced on law students before entrance exam (2020-10-21)
• We have no equity in our laws – Lawyer cries out (2020-10-18)
• AWLA builds capacity of stakeholders for improved justice delivery (2020-10-18)
• Court places injunction on intended strike by GACL staff (2020-10-17)
• Ghana School of Law to run 3-track system - Acting Director (2020-10-13)
• Union of Law Students credits 33% pass to Kwaku Azar, protesting students (2020-10-06)
• Flashback: Scrap law school entrance exam – Law graduates demand of Akufo-Addo (2020-10-06)
• What happened to no mass production of lawyers? - Kweku Azar asks (2020-10-06)
• Why you should consult a lawyer when invited, arrested, restricted or detained by security agents (2020-10-06)
• Law School entrance results manipulated - Kwaku Asare (2020-10-06)
• Ghana Bar Association shows public support for Legal Aid Scheme (2020-09-24)
• Refrain from showing too much skin - GBA President warns (2020-09-15)
• GBA calls for crusade to end bitterness (2020-09-15)
• Blame NPP, NDC for legal education challenges - Union of Law Students (2020-09-10)
• Election 2020: Mahama has given us ‘believable’ promises – Law students (2020-09-09)
• We need policy reforms not infrastructure - Law students to govt (2020-08-26)
• Supreme Court dismisses NDC’s application for review of voters register (2020-07-30)
• It’s shocking – Amaliba on Supreme Court’s dismissal of review application (2020-07-30)
• Former CJ Sophia Akuffo explains her stance against calls to ditch wig and gown in courtrooms (2020-06-22)
• GIBA, NCA face Supreme Court jdugement on June 23 (2020-06-10)
• Evolving African philosophy of law overshadowed by Western principles (2020-05-28)
• Drop needless, useless Public Universities Bill - Dr. Apaak (2020-05-18)
• Supreme Court doesn’t adjudicate 'political cases' – Honyenuga (2020-05-12)
• I feel genuine sympathy for Justice Honyenuga - Okudzeto Ablakwa (2020-05-12)
• Dissolve GLC now! - Prof Asare reacts as Ghanaian universities fail to appear in African rankings (2020-05-12)
• Muslims fume over Justice Tanko Amadu’s comment on Hijab (2020-05-12)
• Minority’s vote against ‘honest’ Justice Honyenuga’s approval shocking – Maurice Ampaw (2020-05-12)
• Judges should not view cases with political eye – Justice Honyenuga (2020-05-11)
• 4 Supreme Court Justice nominees face parliament for vetting (2020-05-11)
• EI 63 Saga: Lawyers waive rights to question judge’s integrity (2020-04-28)
• 'Overconfident' fake lawyer jailed two years (2020-04-03)
• Lockdown forces Chief Justice to adjourn all cases to May, June (2020-03-31)
• Supreme Court defers GIBA suit against NCA, AG to March 18 (2020-03-11)
• It is true, the justice system in Ghana is expensive and favours the rich - Lawyer (2020-02-28)
• Ghanaian courts corrupt, favour the rich – Afrobarometer (2020-02-28)
• Ghana looking for lawyers with ‘high moral character’ to become judges (2020-02-28)
• Don’t treat law as a ‘side job’ and expect to pass – Nii Arday Clegg tells students (2020-02-24)
• Legal issues involved in FDA ban on celebrities featuring in alcohol adverts (2020-02-24)
• Stop working as solicitors, barristers at the same time – Supreme Court judge tells lawyers (2020-02-22)
• Exploit new, grey areas of the law – CJ charges lawyers (2020-02-21)
• Exploit new, grey areas of the law – CJ charges lawyers (2020-02-20)
• Sanction Lawyers who cause unnecessary delays - AWLA (2020-02-10)
• Parliament recommends remarking of 2019 law papers (2020-02-06)
• Legal Education: Don’t pamper law students – Haruna Iddrisu (2020-02-06)
• Set up Eminent Committee to reform legal education – Haruna Iddrisu to Akufo-Addo (2020-02-06)
• Law school mass failure: Parliament calls for remarking (2020-02-05)
• Zoomlion to appeal High Court decision on Auditor General’s surcharge (2020-02-04)
• Some law lecturers not fit to teach – Nii Arday Clegg (2020-01-31)
• Some law lecturers not fit to teach – Nii Arday Clegg (2020-01-31)
• New Crusading Guide, editor slapped with GH¢15 million lawsuit (2020-01-29)
• CJ praises Georgina Wood for teaching him basics of judicial administration (2020-01-08)
• Top lawyer to lead revision of Algeria constitution (2020-01-08)
• Akufo-Addo swears in Anin Yeboah as new CJ today (2020-01-07)
• New CJ takes office today, promises to 'jealously guard judicial integrity' (2020-01-07)
• Treat law students as subjects, not objects – Kofi Abotsi (2019-12-30)
• Justice Anin-Yeboah passionate about legal reforms - Kofi Abotsi (2019-12-30)
• Parliament approves Anin Yeboah after vetting (2019-12-24)
• I will not compromise on judiciary dress codes – Justice Anin (2019-12-23)
• Future election petition will be determined within 42 days – Anin-Yeboah (2019-12-23)
• We need new courts not renovations – Justice Anin makes ‘passionate’ plea to district assemblies (2019-12-23)
• I’ll accept a goat as gift from a friend – CJ nominee (2019-12-23)
• Law students left frustrated as registry forgets to find judge to hear case (2019-12-21)
• Don’t try to control your successor - Baako tells Sophia Akuffo (2019-12-21)
• Chief Justice nominee vetting: Minority backs down on boycott (2019-12-20)
• 48-hour Supreme Court order: We’ll address excesses – Police (2019-12-19)
• Court orders NIA to pay 'unlawfully' suspended salary owed Dr. Ahadzie (2019-12-19)
• W/R: Hospital accountants busted for stealing over GHC500k (2019-12-19)
• Sophia Akuffo speaks on Anin Yeboah's candidacy (2019-12-19)
• Chief Justice is like God’s rep and not a joke – Asiedu Nketia (2019-12-18)
• Goodbye to Her Ladyship Chief Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo (2019-12-16)
• Ghana delegation visits Spain to discuss on administrative justice and judicial review (2019-12-14)
• Advocates hope new CJ nominee is pro-legal education reform (2019-12-14)
• Poor air-conditioners in Accra Circuit courts leave justice in hot hell (2019-12-11)
• Death penalty has caused me many sleepless nights – Justice Lovelace-Johnson (2019-12-10)
• Digitisation will eliminate court corruption – Chief Justice (2019-12-10)
• I’m not confrontational; just frank to a fault – Supreme Court nominee (2019-12-10)
• This Ghanaian law firm has joined WTS Global (2019-12-05)
• ‘Justice for all’ to be decentralized beginning January 2020 – Chief Justice (2019-11-30)
• Your record in upholding standards unmatched – GBA to outgoing Chief Justice (2019-11-29)
• I will be critical about standards even in my retirement – Outgoing CJ (2019-11-29)
• Your record unmatched – GBA to outgoing Chief Justice (2019-11-29)
• You can’t jail persons who stand as sureties – Chief Justice issues directives (2019-11-20)
• One person can’t determine the fate of 35 million Ghanaians – Lawyer jabs Chief Justice (2019-11-05)
• Rawlings should shut up - Maurice Ampaw warns (2019-11-03)
• Mass Law students’ failure: Rawlings trying to intimidate GLC – Maurice Ampaw (2019-11-03)
• The Judiciary will provide quality, efficient and services – Chief Justice (2019-11-02)
• Ghana School of Law: How ‘mafia’ examiners unfairly denied Rawlings' daughter entry (2019-11-01)
• GLC, Chief Justice creating unnecessary problems in the country - Kweku Baako (2019-10-31)
• GLC, CJ has no power to ‘summon’ media house – H. Prempeh, Bentil, Gaspar argue (2019-10-30)
• Watch Kwaku Ansa Asare's interview that allegedly ‘infuriated’ the GLC (2019-10-30)
• Former Ghana School of Law Director in ‘trouble’ over comments (2019-10-29)
• Law students sue AG, GLC over mass failures (2019-10-25)
• Access to legal education is a constitutional right not a privilege (2019-10-19)
• We need quality, not quantity - CJ fires back at law students (2019-10-18)
• Ghanaians need good, quality lawyers not abundance – CJ (2019-10-18)
• Probe mass failures - Law students plead with President (2019-10-17)
• Law students petition CHRAJ over Police brutalities (2019-10-14)
• Union condemns attack on demonstrating law students (2019-10-10)
• Claims of deliberate restrictions on legal education 'complete nonsense' – Sam Okudzeto (2019-10-10)
• We condemn police brutalities against demonstrating law students - OccupyGhana (2019-10-10)
• Indisciplined law students pitching opposition against gov't – Adom-Otchere (2019-10-09)
• Law School Exam Failure: Let’s look at the LLB standards - Moses Foh-Amoaning (2019-10-09)
• Sue policemen who brutalize you – Adam Bonaa to citizens (2019-10-09)
• Law school mass failure: Interviews could have granted students a second chance – GBA (2019-10-09)
• It's 'appalling, disgusting' – OccupyGhana on police brutality against law students (2019-10-09)
• 'Obey common sense' – 'Disgusted' Gabby reacts to Police brutality against law students (2019-10-09)
• 'Urgently' resolve law school exam issues - Akufo-Addo's letter to CJ (2019-10-09)
• Otchere-Darko, Okudjeto Ablakwa angry over Ghana Police Service (2019-10-09)
• We gave the police 10 clear days notice before demo – School of Law SRC President (2019-10-08)
• We'll reform legal education – Mahama (2019-10-08)
• Student demonstration turns nasty (2019-10-08)
• Police stop demonstrating Law Students (2019-10-08)
• Law students demonstrate over legal education (2019-10-08)
• Law student demonstrators seek asylum at Canadian Embassy (2019-10-08)
• Scrap law school entrance exam – Law graduates demand of Akufo-Addo (2019-10-07)
• #RedMonday demonstrators hit the road to demand legal education reforms (2019-10-07)
• Tear gas, gunshots halt law students’ demo (2019-10-07)
• PHOTOS: Law students protest over mass exam failure (2019-10-07)
• Law school demo: Gabby calls IGP to order following spraying of tear gas by police (2019-10-07)
• The statistical case against the GLC 2019 admissions (2019-10-07)
• Law students demo today (2019-10-07)
• Deliver justice with integrity – Presby boss to judges (2019-10-06)
• Ghana School of Law to be expanded to increase admissions – CJ (2019-10-06)
• Stop paying 'thank you' money to judicial officers – CJ warns judges (2019-10-03)
• General Legal Council is a scam – Lawyer (2019-10-02)
• Law School mass failure: Akufo-Addo’s silence 'worrying' – Coalition (2019-10-01)
• Blame law schools, teachers for mass failure of law graduates - Bagbin (2019-09-30)
• Economic Fighters to join Law Students demo on October 7 (2019-09-29)
• Law students to petition Akufo-Addo over ‘restricted admission’ (2019-09-29)
• ‘Illegalizing’ legal education in Ghana; The Chief Justice has a lot to answer (2019-09-28)
• USAG stupefied by mass failure of law graduates; wants results investigated (2019-09-28)
• Law School Exam Failure: Blame Akufo-Addo , others – Kwaku Azar (2019-09-27)
• Boycott Law School over recurring mass failures -Prof Kwaku Azar (2019-09-26)
• Ghana School of Law: 2019 law school exams result out; only 128 out of 1,820 pass (2019-09-25)
• 93% of students fail Ghana School of Law entrance exam (2019-09-25)
• 128 out of 1820 pass law school entrance exams (2019-09-24)
• Stop wasting the time and monies of your clients – Retiring SC Judge to Lawyers (2019-07-30)
• 'Legal education rather needs to be more fairer and accessible' - NDC-UK Chairman (2019-07-24)
• I’ll not allow mass production of Lawyers – Chief Justice (2019-07-23)
• Entrance law exam suit: 2nd hearing on Tuesday (2019-07-22)
• Group sues GLC over law entrance exam ad (2019-07-09)
• Law school mass failure: GLC urged to implement parliament recommendations (2019-07-04)
• NCA Case: Stop prostituting court processes – Judge to defense lawyers (2019-07-02)
• Court to hear General Legal Council versus law students exam tussle June 20 (2019-06-18)
• CJ shuts down Adjabeng Court 2 (2019-06-13)
• Law school entrance exam discriminatory – Group (2019-06-11)
• Law school exams: SRC demands representation on committee investigating mass failures (2019-05-12)
• Legal Council constitutes Committee to investigate mass failure at law school (2019-05-05)
• Law School ordered to conduct re-sit for referred students (2019-04-04)
• Reduce re-sit fees from GHC3,000 to GHC500 - Parliament orders GLC (2019-04-03)
• Law students boycott special classes (2019-03-15)
• Repeated Law students boycott ‘special classes’ (2019-03-15)
• MPs give hope to distressed law students (2019-03-10)
• AG sets up committee to investigate mass failure at Ghana School of Law (2019-03-08)
• Failure at law school: Working-students syndrome part of the problem – Justice Srem-Sai (2019-02-20)
• Law School Exam: Only 64 qualify to the bar out of 450 students (2019-02-19)
• 284 fail Professional law exams, 177 referred; 64 pass (2019-02-19)
• Law School Exam: Only 64 qualify to the bar out of 450 students (2019-02-19)
• ADR will decongest prisons - Justice Irene Charity Larbi (2018-11-21)
• Judicial staff to undergo training at National Cyber Security Centre – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (2018-10-23)
• Let’s respect peoples rights – Akufo-Addo (2018-10-22)
• Build courts in prisons, we will be there to administer justice - Sophia Akuffo (2018-10-16)
• Let’s build courts in prisons – Chief Justice (2018-10-16)
• Chief Justice pushes for non-custodial sentencing (2018-10-11)
• Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana organize '38th annual general meeting' (2018-10-03)
• Punish judges who deliver poor judgments – GBA (2018-09-10)
• Ensure that Ghana Publishing sells up-to-date law books – Judge to AG (2018-08-31)
• ‘Collapse Law School’ - Lecturer (2018-08-31)
• Ghana Legal Council: Who is to blame for the leakage of supplementary exams? (2018-08-28)
• Stop pirating law books – General Legal Council to lecturers (2018-08-20)
• Heavy police presence at Legon as Law students retake leaked paper (2018-08-17)
• Do not allow General Legal Council to take away your dignity (2018-08-04)
• Prospective students of Ghana School of Law to write another entrance exams (2018-08-03)
• 4 Supreme Court Judge nominees face public scrutiny August 20, 23 (2018-08-02)
• Law students wail as they accuse General Legal Council of massive corruption (2018-07-31)
• NDC tag: My judgments vindicate me – Atuguba (2018-07-31)
• Law exams leakage: Dissolve Ghana Legal Council – Azar (2018-07-30)
• Give us evidence to probe exam leakage – Parliament to Law students (2018-07-30)
• Give us evidence to probe exam leakage – Parliament to law students (2018-07-30)
• LLB students want Law School exams cancelled over leakage (2018-07-30)
• Law School exams leaked (2018-07-30)
• SC dismisses application for injunction on Law School entrance exams (2018-07-26)
• Law school exams: Injunction dismissed (2018-07-26)
• Court quashes Francis Sosu’s three-year ban (2018-07-11)
• Judge using chamber pot transferred (2018-07-11)
• Law school exams saga resurfaces (2018-07-10)
• Police give full report on colleague and Law Student leader’s ‘mystery’ death (2018-05-18)
• President of Concerned Law Students dies 'mysteriously' (2018-05-17)
• Law students reject 50% pass mark (2018-05-17)
• Examination must be scrapped – Law students cry out (2018-05-17)
• Sosu to know fate on May 29 (2018-05-17)
• Chief Justice threatens to shut down Wa District Court (2018-05-10)
• Former GBA president, 3 others appointed to Supreme Court (2018-04-16)
• Bar Exams: Give us evidence to fight on your behalf – GBA to Law Students (2018-03-12)
• Prof. Oquaye worst than Mobutu and Idi Amin – Muntaka suggests (2018-03-03)
• MPs divided over law school exams (2018-03-02)
• Everything is wrong at Law School – Fuseini (2018-02-23)
• Stop the press conferences and go to court - Inusah Fuseini urges law students (2018-02-22)
• Bar Exams: Independent Examination Board is an illegal body – Foh Amoaning (2018-02-22)
• Law students failure: Deliberate attempt to cut numbers into law profession – Muntaka (2018-02-21)
• Law students accuse exam body of marking scripts without scheme (2018-02-21)
• Mass failure: Law students to petition General Legal Council (2018-02-21)
• We may not admit students into Law School this year – General Legal Council (2018-02-15)
• Mother of defiled, murdered girl seeks justice (2017-01-20)