Author: newsfilegh

Reverend (Dr) Dinah Baah-Odoom, the Registrar, of the Ghana Psychology Council (GPC) has said it is unlawful for people without the necessary qualifications to pose as psychologists or counsellors on television and radio programmes.

The President of the Concerned Cocoa Farmers Association, Nana Boateng Bonsu, has called for the dissolution of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).

An Accra High Court has sentenced Michael Tetteh, aka Brother, a factory hand, to life imprisonment for his involvement in the death of 19-year-old Patrick Gyasi.

A legal opinion written by A. A. Bright, a lawyer, has argued that Justice Kwasi Anokye Gyimah – the judge who ruled that the GHS217-million Opuni-Agongo case start de novo, after having taken over from retired judge, Justice Clemence Honyenuga – had grounding, at common law, for his ruling, which was subsequently unanimously overturned by the Court of Appeal, whose panel comprised P. Bright Mensah, Jennifer Abena Dadzie and Dr. E. Owusu-Dapaa on 31/07/2023.

At common law, the settled practice in criminal proceedings is that when a new judge inherits a criminal case, he automatically starts the case de novo , no matter the stage of the proceedings or trial.

The Police in Assin-Praso in the Assin North District of the Central Region, have intensified the search for a teen father for allegedly poisoning his ten-day-old baby boy with weedicide. 

The decision of an Accra High Court judge, Justice Aboagye Tandoh to adopt proceedings of previous court without parties seeing or agreeing to what he adopted suo moto is currently a subject at the Court of Appeal.

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has described the statement that was issued by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) reacting to the reports of the withdrawal of the military detachment from the communities affected by the flood, as laughable and a fabrication.

There has been quite a hullaballoo in Nigeria recently over the fact that the three top candidates in February’s presidential elections presented academic records showing different names to those by which they are now known.

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has denied reports that it has withdrawn military personnel deployed to Mepe in the Volta Region following the spillage of the Akosmobo Dam.