The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application filed by human rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu on the grounds that the Court has no jurisdiction to hear his application. Presiding judge Henry Anthony Kwofie said the counsel for Francis Sosu should have filed the notice of appeal at the registry of the General Legal Council … Read more
LONG-drawn legal tussle between SIC Insurance and Ivory Finance over a loan, the former guaranteed for Italconstruct, which went bad, has reached the corridors of the Supreme Court, after SIC filed a notice of appeal. After losing the original case in the High Court and losing the appeal in the Court of Appeal, SIC has … Read more
Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has said his imprisonment in 2008 was wrong and that “no one should have to go through what I went through.” The statement read by Mr Tsikata is reproduced for the readership of the general public as follows: Yesterday, November … Read more
Former boss of the Ghana National Petroleum Cooperation (GNPC) Tsatsu Tsikata has lauded the Court of Appeals for the judgment that overturned his criminal sentence in 2008. According to him the judgment will guarantee the enforcement of the rights of all citizens. He therefore described the judgment as a victory for Ghana’s democracy. Mr. Tsikata was sentenced … Read more
An outspoken law professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, has questioned the basis of the quashing of the conviction of Tsatsu Tsikata by the Court of Appeal, describing it as an error in law. He argued in a Facebook post few hours after the court’s decision Wednesday that Mr Tsikata had no locus standi to appeal his … Read more
The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court judgment which sentenced a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata to jail, for willfully causing financial loss to the state. According to the Court of Appeal, the judgment of the High Court was a miscarriage of justice, because … Read more
Woyome’s contempt case against NPP’s Anthony Karbo and three other media outlets has been dismissed by the Appeal Court! The application made by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome against NPP’s Anthony Karbo and three other media outlets over alleged defamation bothering around the ongoing GHC51 million judgement debt case has been thrown out by the Appeal Court … Read more
The National Judicial Council (NJC) of Nigeria yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices, the legal body under the Chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, suspended from office with immediate effect includes the Presiding Justice of the Court … Read more