Category: Your Friday Legal Corner

Ex Parte Yvonne Amponsah Brobbey in Retrospect: Its Impact on the Rules of Court

Ex Parte Yvonne Amponsah Brobbey in Retrospect: Its Impact on the Rules of Court

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- May 26, 2023

Introduction In February 2023, the Supreme Court in its decision in the Republic v. High Court (Commercial Division) Accra, Ex Parte Yvonne Amponsah Brobbey (described ... Read More

Blue Law: An Insight

Blue Law: An Insight

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- April 29, 2021

INTRODUCTION Perhaps, you were wondering why during the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the court sat on Good Friday and Easter ... Read More

When Long Possession Can Ripen Into Ownership

When Long Possession Can Ripen Into Ownership

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- April 23, 2021

Introduction Not too long ago, there was an information on social media, particularly on Whatsapp platforms to the effect that, if you put a caretaker ... Read More

Making a Case for the Enforcement of Prenuptial Agreements in Ghana

Making a Case for the Enforcement of Prenuptial Agreements in Ghana

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- March 19, 2021

Introduction In 2014, Citifmonline.com reported a news item in which a family lawyer and former lecturer of the Ghana Law School, Dr. Kofi Adinkrah who ... Read More

A Message of Hope for the Year 2021

A Message of Hope for the Year 2021

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- January 8, 2021

Introduction Year 2021 gives some glimpses of hope universally coming straight from 2020, a year that the world was wracked with the deadly Covid-19 Pandemic. ... Read More

Equitable Remedy of Norwich Pharmacal Order: Unmasking the Masked

Equitable Remedy of Norwich Pharmacal Order: Unmasking the Masked

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- June 26, 2020

Towards the last quarter of the 19th Century, a very important ‘marriage’ was celebrated in England that brought together two hitherto hostile, but independent personalities. This ... Read More

21st Century Restatement Of The Principle In Kponuglo V. Kodadja

21st Century Restatement Of The Principle In Kponuglo V. Kodadja

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- June 12, 2020

Introduction On 24th November 1933, the Privy Council delivered a decision that has had far reaching consequences on not only our jurisprudence but British West Africa ... Read More

Hayford Ofosu Amaning v. The Republic:  A Case of Judicial Heterodoxy?

Hayford Ofosu Amaning v. The Republic: A Case of Judicial Heterodoxy?

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- May 8, 2020

The Facts of the Case In the case of Hayford Ofosu Amaning v. The Republic, the High Court had tried summarily an accused person who was ... Read More

The Abandoned Jurisdiction of The Supreme Court

The Abandoned Jurisdiction of The Supreme Court

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- May 1, 2020

1.Introduction Perhaps, it may surprise you to know that a conviction by a lower court, not appealed against by the convicted person or his lawyer ... Read More

The complexity of Succession in Some Ghanaian Communities & Historical Accounts

The complexity of Succession in Some Ghanaian Communities & Historical Accounts

Justice Alexander Osei Tutu- April 24, 2020

Introduction Succession is an integral part of customary law and since customary law is part of the laws of Ghana and for that matter the Ghana ... Read More