Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash By: Barbara Ewoenam Afua Kukah Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic aside, one of the most shocking events of the year 2020 was the arrest of Nigerian social media personality and influencer, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi. On 29th July 2021, Forbes reported that Abbas had pleaded guilty in a Californian...
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Secret Phone Recording Violation of Right to Privacy
The Supreme Court in the case of Raphael Cubagee v Michael Yeboah Asare & 2 Ors[1] has declared the secret recording of a telephone conversation as a breach of the privacy provisions of the constitution. The Court went on to say that the secret recording was not admissible as evidence in court. “To record someone...
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High Court grants Application for Substituted Service via Facebook
An Accra High Court in the case of IFS Financial Services Limited v Jonathan Mensah & Anor[1] has allowed the social media network, Facebook, to be used to notify a defendant of a civil suit after several failed attempts at serving the court processes on him personally. The High Court judge, Justice Sophia Bernasko-Essah in...
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IMO – The App that goes ahead of you
Have you ever started typing a text to someone in the heat of the moment when you’re filled with rage over an issue and you go on a full-blown rant? Then just before you hit send, you get a glimpse of sanity or at least the possible repercussions of sending that message; so in that moment,...