Justice Srem-Sai
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22 lawyers stepped up to the plate today. They offered their professional advice and representation to the citizens who were arrested or brutalized by the police this morning for joining the
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
demonstration. Many more lawyers and health professionals have
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One of the things that senior lawyers do - particularly when a young lawyer has earned their confidence - is to throw the young lawyer into kind of an ambush in a huge court. They’d, usually, simply, tell the young lawyer to go take an adjournment or to deliver a simple message
Young lawyer Essinam Kporku who was the subject of admiration by a seven-member panel chaired by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo describes the moments as monomental.
Chief Justice and her panel were elated by the delivery of Essinam who is two years at the BAR and had appeared
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The Director of the Ghana School of Law, Nana Barima Oppong Kodie, seems to have a clear plan for improving the country’s lawyer-citizen ratio. Last year, 846 persons were called to the bar. The highest number before that was in the year 2020 - 460 persons. Over 1,000 will be
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When you get arrested by the police . Do not talk. Do not unlock your phone for them, even if they demand it. They need a court order to open your phone. Call two people - a lawyer and someone who will bail you.
@GhPoliceService
#SremLaw
#Crime
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The number of lawyers who have registered their readiness to represent the victims of police brutality during the
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
protest has increased by almost 300% since yesterday. The number is now 61.
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Since November 30, 1993, the rules of public protest have been established as follows: (1) Protesters notify the police of their intention and plan to hold a public protest - the plan should indicate the protest route, venue, time, estimated number of protesters, etc.; (2) The
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I think we need to correct this before it becomes the accepted position. The Vice President of Ghana is a 2nd driver (not a driver’s mate). Here are some fundamental differences:
1. A mate doesn’t drive, whether in the presence or absence of the driver. The Vice President, on
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Ghana 🇬🇭 is an interesting country. You can run a country down down down from the fastest growing economy in the world, bury it in massive debt, cause severe economic hardship among the people, and still have people walk behind you while you put yourself on show with funny dance
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This is CHARLES MOHAMMED BARWAH, Major-General in the Ghana Army. The Barwah Barracks in Tamale is named after him. He, then Army Chief of Staff, was asked to acknowledge the 1966 coup and, when he affirmed his allegiance to the Republic, shot dead by the coup plotters. This is
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A passport, primarily, is a traveling document. It facilitates a person’s movement from one country to another. Indeed, it is a request by a sovereign to another sovereign to extend some rights, privileges and protection to an individual - the passport holder.
On the other
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The Attorney-General, who is every minister’s lawyer, is in the High Court prosecuting Oliver on treason charges. Oliver is on bail with conditions which keep him in constant touch with the police. Additionally, being a “coup plotter” in the government’s books, Oliver must
For the past 2 hours I have been sitting in the Court Kan Dapaah advertised that he was coming to for a substituted order to serve me today.
Since Kan Dapaah said he can’t find me, I am here to find him.
Guess what. Not a single soul in sight.
Judge has been waiting since
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Why can’t Dr Bawumia also subject himself to such open, frank, rigorous, fair and unchoreographed, issue-based public scrutiny? Why?
#MahamaConversations
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The persons who spent their entire adult life demonising you have been given power. Come and see what they’re doing with it. Rest well, Chairman. 🫡
#Rawlings
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The Bank of Ghana head office is one minute and thirty seconds’ walk from the Supreme Court Building. The Ghana Post head office is exactly fifty-five second’s walk from it. When you start your salon car at the gate of the Bank’s head office, an average adult human standing at
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There’s a wave of flu with severe fever raging in this town 🇬🇭 . But because your Ghana Health Service is completely broken, no one is telling you how to keep safe or heal. The government doesn’t care. Take care of yourself out there, friend.
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The longer Dr Bawumia takes to get a running-mate, the more evident it becomes that he’s struggling to find a match for Prof Opoku-Agyemang; and that can be severely distressing. However, that’s not the focus of this post.
Let’s, once again, think about Prof Atta Mills a little
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Thanks to all the lawyers who have, in a selfless manner, offered their skills, time, effort and money to the
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
protest. You’ve being on standby at all the police stations in the Accra Police Region for the past 3 days 🫡. May the number of your fee-paying
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“What f**ls they are! How ignorant for them to think that you [Ghanaians] believe these st*pid lies. Open your eyes and look around you. See for yourself. See the splendid new Tema Harbour. See the mighty Volta Dam. See the fine roads we have built under the leadership of the
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Ghana Police knows very well that a press statement is not an order of injunction. So, what’s the basis for the statement that demonstrators should “respect due process”? What’s the due process here? A press statement which was issued a few hours before the start of a
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If this book
#IAmNotYvonneNelson
doesn’t teach you to be cautious with news headlines, nothing will. I think the Sarkodie bit is rather an intriguing distraction from a deeply sorrowful but uniquely complex and revealing story of a real living human being (rather than a fiction).
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Somehow, some of these senior NPP appointees have convinced themselves that they have monopoly over corruption and unpatriotic behaviour. Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was at the passport office, ranting and saying all the right things. But, you see, she doesn’t get
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By convention, when a court rules against you, you rise, bow, and say to the judge(s) - “The law is in your bosom”, or “As it pleases your Lordship(s)”, or any variant of such.
On the other hand, when a court rules in your favour, you, by the same convention, rise, bow, and say
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You’ve seen hundreds of fresh wigs. Now, have a look at this. Yesterday, it rained lawyers. In the middle of that rain, the thunderous news of a legend struck through. A legend had, without leave, taken leave of the temporal bar. In many minds, he was cast a lawyer - a calling he
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My students have been stealing shots of me during classes, a practice to which I’ve been a persistent objector. We all know, ought to know, or are capable of knowing what that means under Public International Law). Ok. Now, one student was bold enough to take the practice even
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Your legacy. Even your “mate” says he would abolish them.
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In case you still don’t fully appreciate the value of the millions being swallowed by corruption and mismanagement under this government, let me help you:
If your monthly salary is Ghc 2,000 (two thousand cedis), you’d have to work for 417 years without spending a pesewa of it
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When the NPP proposed the Free SHS policy, the NDC’s counter-argument was this: an absolutely free secondary education would, due to resource constraints, be better achieved if it was implemented progressively, beginning with expansion of infrastructure. Which ever way you look
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Your appointees have recklessly opened a dam to flush out livelihoods, properties and communities. You describe your reluctant visit to the place as “help.” This the mentality of a President of a country.
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Visited
@char_osei
. Great conversation. I learnt a lot across various subject areas - particularly, law. She’s so so intellectual. Good food. And, oh, she gave me a beautiful Christmas present 🎁. ☺️
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Season 1 of the
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
protest has ended. The protest spilled over from the 37 Military Hospital intersection, way down to the Kawukudi intersection. At least 3 categories of protesters may be identified:
(1) those who are angry with the government’s mismanagement
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Before your trial begins,
@GhPoliceService
and the Prosecutor are required by law to give you every evidence they have about the crime you’re charged with. This includes evidence which can prove that you’re NOT guilty.
#SremLaw
#Crime
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“Sika mp3 dede” is roaming the town in a 46-multipurpose-vehicle convoy with sirens blaring at an average of 120 decibels.
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Marking exam scripts is, emphatically, the worst part of teaching law.
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Dr Bawumia has been sharing his views on JM’s “24-hour economy” policy proposal. Many things he has said so far, however, disclose a limited appreciation of the 24-hour economy concept as it is known throughout the world.
Let’s take this statement, for instance: He says that:
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A law passed by Parliament (a bill) is not a full law (an Act) until the President signs it. This means that the President has the power to sign or to refuse to sign a bill. When he signs, we say he has given his assent; when refuses, he has vetoed it.
In August and in November
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Happy birthday, the people’s EC Boss. You left an indelible mark on our democracy. A mark that no petty parochial interest can delete. Cheers 🥂🤩
@char_osei
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24-hour economy doesn’t mean that the government will force people to work on day or night shifts. 24-hour economy means that the government will put in place the infrastructure, laws, incentives and systems to motivate businesses and individuals to choose to spread their
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This is SALIFU DAGARTI, Chief Superintendent of Police in the Ghana Police Force. He was born in Kumasi in 1913 to a former Sergeant-Major of the Gold Coast Regiment. This is how he was killed:
In a design to assassinate President Nkrumah, a police constable, Seth Ametewee, was
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Kenya is teaching our President something very basic once again - the proper way to veto a bill. Rule of law.
Ruto could have questioned the quorum and other internal parliamentary procedural matters which went into passing the bill. He could have, nicodemusly, caused a writ to
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In all protest situations, true, the police have to weigh the right of the people to assemble against the possibility that the assembly will lead to a breach of public order. So, one day in the UK, the police stopped a train of protesters 3 miles away from the site of an ongoing
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This year, 2024, 50 countries will be holding national elections. In other words, about half of the world’s population will be voting to change Presidents and national leaders this year alone. Also, today, January 22, the planet Pluto enters the sign of Aquarius, where it’ll
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A government official demanded 20% of the value of an investment from a private investor before the investment. (2) He demanded additional US$ 200,000 from the investor as a non-refundable fee before he would connect the investor to the country’s Vice President for a pitch. (3)
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@thePOE_T
The other monarchs are sovereigns of the countries whose flags are displayed. The Asante flag is displayed because the Asantehene is the sovereign of Asante only and not of Ghana. Displaying the Ghana flag for him would, rather, have been a miscommunication.
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Earlier today, I was, along with some outstanding Ghanaian lawyers, admitted to the Roll of Notaries Public at the Supreme Court, Accra. To be admitted, one must be considered by the Chief Justice as a “fit and proper” barrister or solicitor. In common law countries, a Notary
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Two quick points:
I. THE WRIT
At the Supreme Court (original jurisdiction), a Plaintiff’s case comprises of 3 processes (documents): (1) the writ, (2) the statement of case (SOC), and (3) the affidavit of verification of facts (AVF).
The law allows a Plaintiff to file the
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Come to law school, you say you won’t. Let me spin your head a little bit this morning: Does the General Legal Council (GLC) have disciplinary power/jurisdiction over the Attorney-General?
True, the Attorney-General is a lawyer, so he’s subject to all such liabilities that a
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May our paths lead us to justice, even when we, in our weak moments, endeavour to avoid it. Happy new legal year.
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A few years ago, 2014 to 2016 thereabouts, just before the current NPP government, there was a movement of some leading experts of good governance in this town (names withheld).
The movement was against what the experts called a “winner-takes-all” democracy. Their mission was
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24-hour economy doesn’t mean that no one will sleep for 24 hours. It means that we will take turns to sleep, work and enjoy life. Even the Bible warns us in Proverb 6:9 against excessive sleep - “how long wilt thou sleep, o sluggard?” But 24-hour economy means even more. It means
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Yesterday, the cameras were allowed into the Chief Justice’s Court. And it caught us. In the background was a voice, ostensibly a senior’s, crying in the wilderness, quite fervently, about juniors not working “at all”.
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In 🇬🇭, if you use a person’s disability to call her a derogatory name or to ridicule, mock or taunt her, you have committed a crime. You may go to jail for up to 3 months. You may even pay a fine on top. Be advised. Be human.
#SremLaw
#Disability
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People who think outside the box think 24-hour working economy 🫡
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Access to
@GhPoliceService
social media accounts is a fundamental human right - to information, education, freedom of speech, association and, even, to life. So, one interesting question which the courts of Ghana may have to answer next year is this - whether the social media
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Some of you here are in NPP solely because you want to be associated with intellectuals.
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Mine was THE PROPRIETOR; MOK BEER BAR v. GADA [1979] GLR 35. The setting for this case was a blue kiosk in Zongo Lane, Accra. The time was December 1974. Two wks before Christmas. Buyer bought 2 bottles of akpeteshie 🍼🍼. He asked the seller to keep the drinks for collection in
CONVERSATION SATURDAY
Tell us your most favorite case while in law school and the brief facts of that case.
Let’s go..
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She was very professional, ethical, firm, and would consider her brief from diverse perspectives. Her sense of humour - quite surprising. She never missed an opportunity to issue a reminder that she’s King’s Counsel 😁. Working with her (from the other side of the bar) has been
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I don’t know about other disciplines, but being actively vocal and a little bit polemical in law school can be rewarding in many ways, even beyond grades. Let me share with you an experience - a few others have had a similar experience. In law school, I was quite a talkative in
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No opportunity for the youth. Hardship everywhere.
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Sometimes, you have to be petty to make the point. 👌🏽
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When we train
@GhPoliceService
officers, we tell them about rights. We also teach them standard procedure n explain the consequences of their breach to them. Later today, I'll tell u some consequences of a 👮🏼♂️ disregarding arrest and investigation procedures.
#SremLaw
#Crime
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It would appear that the claim by the
@GhPoliceService
that the
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
protest was going to create public disorder and insecurity has been summarily disproved. The only thing which caused a disorder was police misbehavior on day 1.
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That’s what policing has become in Ghana - upon knowing that the thugs were pro-government, they had to put aside their fundamental duty (to detect crime and enforce the law) to, first, go back and check from “above” if that was a crime they could “detect.”
The most shocking aspect of this invasion of UTV during United Showbiz by these thugs of the ruling party is when they stated their mission and the Police were seen leaving the scene to decide on/evaluate their request
WTF
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We may have become so used to corruption and mismanagement of government money that we don’t seem to care about news of such things anymore. However, this SSNIT issue is a completely different one. It is a very serious issues because of the nature of the money which SSNIT holds
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When you buy from here, you not only buy, you also help to feed the tiny feet you see under the stall. The hardship is flying full mast - let’s support small family businesses. 🇬🇭
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We know a few things. We know that the question - whether a person is a citizen of a country - is a question of law. We also know that the answer to that question is found only in the law of the country in question. We know that the law of a foreign country is a question of fact
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As much as possible, please, buy from small tiny family businesses (rather than huge departmental stores). The woman selling on the wooden stall down the street. Things are hard for them. The country is hard.
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To your mind and in the silence of your heart, tell us - how would the e-levy budget fare if it were put to a referendum? This is probably the best way to know which side of
@GhanaParliament
is truly representing the people.
#SremPol
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The prevailing legal authorities tell us that the constitutionality of a bill (which is yet to become a law) may not be challenged. So, in such cases, the Supreme Court has declined jurisdiction, usually, on grounds that the case is not “ripe” for determination.
However,
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I’m watching
#25thTGMA
on
@tv3_ghana
, and there’s no way you’d know what’s going on if you’re a person with hearing impairment. Let’s endeavour to be inclusive. 🙏🏽
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137 MPs. Each accompanied by at least 100 constituents. October 3, 2023.
#OccupyBoGProtest
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Sometimes, a law may be amended to increase the penalty for a crime from, say, 5 years, to, say, 10 years. When that happens, the increased penalty (10 years) cannot be applied to a person who is found to have committed the crime before the amendment. Such a person could only be
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The President has stalled a bill from becoming a law. Parliament has stalled the appointment of some ministers. Both actions find justification in the Attorney-General’s advice. Clearly, the Supreme Court has a job to do, but to what extent may the Court’s decisions alone clear
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The effect of the pro-government UTV thuggery goes far beyond UTV and A-Plus and all the panelists who were targeted. The bigger effect is that, going forward, any person who wishes to publicly speak NOT in support of this government would have to look over his or her shoulders
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The moral of the story is that political power is everything. If you have it, people will always clap for you. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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They want to brand him as a man of his own. The question is - why?
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T publishes a defamatory story about K. Y shares the story. Y's sharing is called "republication". K can sue Y too for defamation. And Y may be liable to K for republishing the story. It is not a defence for Y to say that she merely "shared" the story.
#SremLaw
#Defamation
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The African American writer, Richard Wright, took a trip to the Gold Coast (now, Ghana) in the run up to the country’s independence. He interviewed Dr J.B. Danquah. This is an excerpt from the interview, which Wright published originally in his 1954 book - “Black Power”:
WRIGHT:
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A quick explanation: Secretly recording another person is wrong, even at law. It is against the right to privacy, particularly, privacy of communications. The right to privacy is protected by our Constitution. Because of this protection, our courts do not reward the practice of
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Sitting outside of francophone Africa, one is likely to conclude or be lured into thinking that what is happening in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and the rest of francophone West Africa is just the usual triviality of coup d’etas. No. The events don’t exactly fit the
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So, individuals have been receiving birthday and other wishes specifically addressed to them through text messages from a sender who signs off as “Dr Bawumia”.
These messages - which many of the recipients consider a nuisance - are, apparently, widespread and are causing
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A thing is unconstitutional if it offends a principle in the Constitution. So, when the Supreme Court declares something unconstitutional, the thing becomes void, meaning that the thing ceases to exist - as if it never existed in the first place. That’s the first point.
The
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The Ghana-Nigerian beef: In 1874, the British signed the Royal Charter which brought the, then, British Lagos Settlement under the, then, Gold Coast Colony.
The seat of the Gold Coast colonial government (then headed by Governor George Strahan) was the Cape Coast Castle in
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Your desires are legitimate. Have a peaceful week. 🫡
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Come to law school, you won’t. Rather, you’re there chasing area girls. Now, on criminalising the refusal to obey a chief’s summons, I did some digging to find out what the law was even before the Supreme Court’s decision in 2011. In the case below - Abadie v Quasie Oyam (decided
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Thanks, boss 🙏🏾
Grateful to
@JusticeSremSai
for leading a team of lawyers to come to the aid of the arrested protesters today. Top guy
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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Multiple names. Multiple DOBs. Multiple parentage. They’re all not the issue - there can be genuine legit explanations to them. The real problem begins with KNOWINGLY and CAREFULLY using ALL of them at the SAME TIME for OFFICIAL purposes. That requires something more.
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