The supreme court has stressed that nothing prevents a court from electing to hear and decide on its merit a...
Artificial Intelligence and The Ghanaian Legal Industry: An Angel or Demon?
The world we live in has undergone several industrial revolutions. The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize...
Ghana’s 2000 Banks Collapse (Part 2)
Under Act 180, the liquidator’s role was simply to identify the assets of the banks, sell them and use the...
Ghana’s 2000 Banks Collapse (Part 1)
Ghana’s Banking sector has experienced a number of significant changes in the past year. Of all these changes, the Bank...
Generic Names Not Brand Names
Manufacturers of products usually have one aim: to become the leaders in the market in which they operate. Apart from...
Supreme Court Rejects Sharia Law Discriminating against Women on Property Distribution.
Ghana is widely conceived as a religious country. Religious norms and practices have unsurprisingly gained grounds and in some instances...
The Death of the Statutory Corporation
The statutory corporation went on quietly to the ancestors without the usual Ghanaian fanfare. There was no one to sing...
Customary Grant Will Override a Subsequent Conveyance
The Supreme Court in Adisa Boya v Zenabu Mohammed & Mujeeb[i] held that writing is not a sine qua non to...
Victim-Offender Mediation and the Criminal Justice System
Under the criminal justice system, a crime is regarded as an offence against the state and not the victim.[1]The state...
Supreme Court on the Determination of the Value of a Car Under a Comprehensive Insurance Policy
The Supreme Court by majority decision has held that an insured party is entitled to determine the value of his...
Nolle Prosequi and Withdrawal
Article 88(3) of the 1992 Constitution gives power to the Attorney General to initiate and conduct all prosecutions on behalf...
High Court Rejects Claim for Recovery of “Facilitation Fees”
The High Court, Kumasi presided over by Justice Angelina Mensah-Homiah denied a construction company, Star of the Sea Construction (“Company”)...