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Chief Justice His Lordship Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has commissioned the first district court in Pakyi No2 in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region. The facility is funded by the government through the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development in collaboration with the Common Fund Secretariat. The new court building has been

Welcome home valued reader! In fact there are certain secrets that must not be told by lawyers to their clients. These secrets are said to be the premise of the success of any lawyer. That is the reason why lawyers are considered as smart people. Provided below are some of them; 1. A lawyer never

Article by Hossein Berenji, Aug 19, 2020 Per the American Bar Association, attorneys have between a 4% to 17% chance of being sued for legal malpractice. Legal malpractice constitute negligence that is so egregious that it causes a client significant and provable harm. Get this straight; The attorney you hired may not be committing malpractice,

Article by Hossein Berenji, Aug 19, 2020 Per the American Bar Association, attorneys have between a 4% to 17% chance of being sued for legal malpractice. Legal malpractice constitute negligence that is so egregious that it causes a client significant and provable harm. Get this straight; The attorney you hired may not be committing malpractice,

Welcome home valued reader. In fact citizens of consider law as a profession for indigent people, this speculation is rooted on the fact that some of the lawyers in Ghana are not very rich, despite the fact that law is seen as one of the prestigious professions in the country. Provided below are the list

Ohemeng Ian Moore (Former Assembly Member for Abrepo-Mpatasie Electoral Area Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer Aspirant-npp) Writes:  If I had a dollar for every time I think about when and how lawyer Maurice Ampaw rose from obscurity to fame in the political arena, I would probably buy the world over! I think the learned man should

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The adoption of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program by the Judiciary has slashed down the load of courts in Ghana by 29,558 cases; His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah-Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana has announced. He has indicated that but for its introduction and implementation, the load of cases

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Residents of Bantama constituency have benefited from a day’s public sensitization program on Community Service Bill. Officials of the Muslim Family Counselling Services (MFCS); organizers of the event engaged them on Wednesday 6th July 2022 as a way of heightening public education on the Bill as done in communities including

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Officials of Legal Resource Centre (LRC) have through funding support from USAID sponsored a 4-day training workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanism and Administrative Procedures for new staff of the Legal Aid Commission (LAC). The training falls within the scope of LRC’s current project which is the “USAID Justice

Story By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Traditional leaders of Kaase, a community within Asokwa Municipality have called for the immediate passage of the Community Service Sentencing (CSS) Bill into an Act. Nana Kwame Owusu Ansah; Kontihene for the area has underscored that the CSS will succeed in addressing the litany of inadequacies characterising custodial sentence approach

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Africa office is vociferously advocating for the passage of the Community Service Sentencing (CSS) Bill consequent to the overpopulated nature of prisons in Ghana. It emerged at a sensitization workshop organized and held in Kumasi by CHRI officials that the total number of inmates locked

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com A day’s public education on access to justice, held by executives of Muslim Family Counselling Services through a collaboration with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Africa at Ahodwo Dabaa has received commendations from the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association (GNTDA). According to Emmanuel Danlogo (Assistant Coordinator, GNTDA) the

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Residents of Komeso; a farming community within the Asante Akim South Municipality have received their share of a public education program on legal rights of the citizenry vis-à-vis justice delivery system in Ghana. The training took the form of a public durbar and was held on Tuesday 17th April 2022

Story by Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Officials of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on Wednesday 20th April 2022 engaged stakeholders within the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice in a round table discussion in Kumasi. It was geared towards brainstorming on the need to review both the ADR Act, 2010 (Act 798) and the Legal Aid

WRITTEN BY SOFIA GYMER, EDITOR, ALLABOUTLAW.CO.UK Welcome home my dear friend. In fact the skills you need for your ideal career are something that you can work on and develop over time. As the saying goes: practice makes perfect! Here are a few qualities that you should consider working on if you aspire to be

Be informed that in the United States, the terms “lawyer” and “attorney” are used interchangeably. Per the explanation of the American Bar Association (ABA), “attorney” is another name for a lawyer. However, there is a technical distinction to be aware of. A person who has earned their law degree which is also known as a

First of all to better understand the difference between a paralegal and an attorney, let us begin by clarifying what a paralegal can do. Paralegals may complete many of the same legal tasks that a lawyer does (except those prescribed by law). But paralegals can only do so on behalf of and under the supervision

Welcome home my dear friend. Please be informed that lawyers regularly get a bad rap. Certainly, there are unethical lawyers who may do unpleasant things to win, there are many more honest, hardworking attorneys who genuinely want to help lot of people. The legal arena can be a highly rewarding profession, with great pay if

Welcome home my great friend. Law as we all know is one challenging field of study which requires many years of study in the university before one can be called to bar and start practicing the profession. This is when to decide where and when to begin your profession and above all achieve monetary value

Officials of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative have engaged opinion leaders of Obuasi township. The motive was to equip them with the know-how on how to access legal aid services in Ghana in their quest for justice without any charge. It formed part of a project dubbed “USAID JUSTICE SECTOR SUPPORT ACTIVITY” and was held on