General Legal Council Dragged To Supreme Court Over ‘draconian’ Rules
A Ghanaian citizen, Emmanuel Korsi Senyo, has gone to the Supreme Court seeking to discredit the work of the Disciplinary ...
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Israeli Woman Wins Discrimination Case Over Airline Seat
An 83-year-old woman has won a lawsuit against Israel's national airline after being asked to move seats on a transatlantic ...
Morocco Protest Leader ‘beaten’ During Arrest
The leader of a protest movement in northern Morocco was "severely" beaten and verbally abused by police during his arrest, ...
Barclays Charged With Fraud In Qatar Case
Barclays and four former executives have been charged with fraud over their actions in the 2008 financial crisis. The Serious ...
Court Gives Lagos Poor Demolition Reprieve
Impoverished fishing communities in Nigeria's financial capital, Lagos, celebrated a court ruling on Wednesday that said government demolitions of their ...
Is It Important To Have A Retired CJ On Council of State? – Lawyer Stokes Debate
Outspoken Ghanaian professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, has triggered a debate on whether it is important to have a retired Chief ...
Suspected Suicide Bomber Shot At Brussels Railway Station
Belgian soldiers have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber at Brussels Central Station, officials say. He ...
10 Years After US Housing Crash, Remnants Accompany Recovery
Boarded-up homes became a ubiquitous symbol of the US housing crash, with once-prosperous neighborhoods left to decay as mortgage defaults ...
Ghanaian, 27, Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Bomb Massachusetts Univ
A Ghana native who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow ...
Egypt Court Rules Against Island Transfer To Saudi
An Egyptian court on Tuesday ruled that previous judicial decisions in favour of transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi ...
Algeria Leader Drops Panama Papers Libel Suit Vs Le Monde
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday dropped a libel suit against Le Monde after the influential French daily apologised for ...
Judiciary Will Use Technology For Quality Justice
Justice Sophia Abena Abroma Akuffo, the Chief Justice Nominee on Friday gave the assurance that upon her approval, she would ...
Joel Joffe, Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies Aged 85
Tributes were paid Tuesday to Joel Joffe, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the trial that saw the anti-apartheid ...
Minister Under Fire For Attack On Sri Lankan Rights Lawyer
Sri Lanka's justice minister faced calls for his resignation Tuesday after accusing a human rights lawyer of misleading the public ...
Chevron Prevails In Ecuador Pollution Battle At US Supreme Court
Oil giant Chevron prevailed in a long-running legal battle over pollution in Ecuador, with the US Supreme Court blocking villagers ...
“Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo Will Be An Effective Leader Of The Judiciary” – President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the new Chief Justice of the Republic, Justice Sophia Abena ...
Boafoa Akuffo Suggests Enough Resources For Improvement of Justice In Ghana
Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo, Presidential nominee for the position of Chief Justice said with enough resources, there would be ...
Bush Officials Can’t Be Sued For Post-9/11 Abuses, Says Top Court
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that senior officials from president George W. Bush's administration cannot be held responsible for ...
Lawyers For Sarkodie Respond To Intention To Sue By Kloma Hengme Association
A copy of the said letter has been referred to Lawyers for Sarkodie, for due legal process to be followed. In ...
Sophia Akuffo Approved As Ghana’s New Chief Justice
Parliament today , approved the nomination of Justice Sophia Akuffo for the position of Chief Justice of Ghana. She becomes ...