Moral of the case: We must be careful what information we pick on others and share on social media or elsewhere. We may suffer huge damages and costs for it.

I remembered her meekly and mildly taking out sheets of paper containing the various oaths of office from a black portfolio for the Chief Justice to administer to the Republic’s top three VVIPs. The thought that a grown person in full legal regalia will be part of a ceremony just to turn over a sheet of paper and a pen to His Lordship, the Chief Justice in his white-gloved hands seemed so feudal to me but, “it is tradition”! Perhaps, if we modify and modernize the pomp and ceremony, it might “open the floodgates” for our “traditions” to be diluted, dented and disregarded. We have bought this tag line before, haven’t we? “Opening the floodgates” is the new euphemism for continuity.

As a child growing up, some of the words that I heard from snippets of general conversations between my great-great grand and great-grand folks and from their work were “detention”, “bailiff”, “affidavit”, “auctioneer”, “commissioner for oaths” and “deponent”. My maternal great-great-grand uncle was the late Mr. B. E. Adwetewa of Asante-Mampong; a great Presbyterian, an old student of Begoro Boys Boarding School in the early 1900s, a Commissioner in the Northern Territories in the colonial days, a staunch UP member, and a Commissioner for Oaths in his retirement days.

This article seeks to throw light on how the courts have handled the property rights of parties who hitherto went through a marriage ceremony under the Ordinance but the marriage so contracted has been declared a nullity for the reason that one of the parties was already married under the Ordinance before contracting the annulled marriage.

Every four years to come, our right to vote we will exercise.
This we shall do, till thy kingdom come.
Will there be petitions in future? No one can tell for now.
Will the returning officer speak? No one will ever know.
But optimistic we must be, lest we create furrows in our brows.

  Introduction What a month December, 2020 was! Being an election month in an election year in Ghana, it was expectedly a very busy one.

“Choose faith over fear and be courageous. When I think of someone who is tough, I also think of someone who has courage. People who

Of course, the sheer mention of a million dollars is enough to send many of us into dizzying bouts of excitement. Therefore, for one to smell tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and turn on their heel and leave it behind will be most unnatural. The question is: how have many young technology innovators across the world, particularly in the West, handled their start-ups? The answer is simple: they have resisted the temptation to sell off to the rich corporate predators and their acolytes

The admonition as issued transcends female lawyers and judges’ dressing in court; it applies with full force to their dressing in their offices as well. The last time I checked, lawyers in their offices, both male and female, wore normal office attire. Some even have ‘Friday African Wear’ policy in place. There is nothing wrong with that. Choosing to prescribe what female lawyers and judges should wear even in their offices is distasteful, chauvinistic and discriminatory.

It has been observed that in all the cases that have been argued before the courts thus far[10], the issue of the constitutionality of the strict application of the notice requirement in its pristine form has not been raised. Perhaps, when next a lawyer sues a client to recover legal fees due and owing, the non-compliance with the one month notice condition will not nullify the writ but the lawyer may be granted leave to give notice to the client for the matter to be heard on its merit.

The leading dissenting opinion was delivered by the President of the Court, Atuguba, JSC. He stated as follows: “I would conclude, therefore, that the failure of a lawyer to take out a solicitor’s license should lead to an adjournment of proceedings to enable the client instruct another lawyer, if necessary, but not the invalidation of the processes filed for the client. This applies also to the question of an unregistered chambers.”