By Charlotte O. Kwakye-Nuako, Esq, PhD[1] Legal practice is basically an apprenticeship backed by law—at least at the beginning. The Legal Profession Act, 1960 (Act 32) (as amended)[2], allows for persons who have been trained as lawyers to serve under senior lawyers for a period of six months prior to obtaining their licenses. In a...
Introduction Literature-in-English was my favourite subject in both my O’ and A’ Level classes at St. Monica’s Secondary School in Asante-Mampong. Apart from the richness it added to one’s language, Literature-in-English also gave a vivid historical account of how people lived during various epochs of human civilization. I loved the African Writers Series but Shakespeare...
Lawyers and taxmen make strange bedfellows. And in more than one instance, attempts to infuse the enforcement of tax obligations with justice delivery have been met with mixed results. Take the recent Supreme Court decision in CJEUL v the Ghana Revenue Authority & Attorney-General[1] as an example. The Plaintiff, a non-governmental organisation, brought an application challenging...