Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo is no longer required to pay back $1million to the State after an Accra High Court ruled in his favour setting aside the surcharge imposed on him and other officials at the Finance Ministry.
Tag: Supreme Court
I’ve no orders from Supreme Court to stop hearing you – Judge tells Ken Agyapong
A High Court in Accra says it has not received any orders from the Supreme Court to discontinue hearing the case brought against maverick politicians, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.
A-G convinces S/C to remove Domelovo’s name from suit challenging his annual leave
The Attorney-General (A-G) has succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court to strike out the names of the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelovo, and the Acting Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, from a suit challenging President Akufo-Addo’s directive for Domelovo to proceed on his accumulated annual leave.
NDC files for review of Supreme Court’s ruling on exclusion of birth certs, older voter ID as proof of a Ghanaian citizen
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has filed an application at the Supreme Court for a review of the apex court’s judgment for excluding birth certificates, older voter ID as requirement in the ongoing voters registration exercise.
Supreme Court to sit on July 14
The Supreme will on Tuesday July 14, 2020 sit on all cases listed for the day.
Positive COVID-19 cases compels Supreme Court to suspend sittings
The Supreme Court has temporarily suspended all its sittings over cases that are before them. This follows the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Judicial Service where some Judges and staff have allegedly tested positive and have mandatorily been made to self-isolate.
Supreme Court ruling over exclusion of old voters ID as proof of citizenship got NDC confused – Baba Jamal
A former Member of Parliament for Akwatia, Baba Jamal, says the ruling by the Supreme over the exclusion of the old voters’ ID card as proof of Ghanaian citizen to qualify in the upcoming compilation of a new voters register got the legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) confused.
Supreme Court says no to use of old Voters ID in upcoming registration exercise
A panel of seven-member Supreme Court Judges has in a unanimous decision rejected the old voters’ identification card as proof of Ghanaian citizen to qualify an eligible voter to register in the upcoming voters registration exercise to be conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for the 2020 general polls.
Parliament votes 106-92 to adopt controversial CI 126
The Parliament of Ghana has by majority votes of 106 against 92 adopted the controversial Constitutional Instrument (CI) 126 that is seeking to empower the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter’s register for the conduct of the 2020 general elections.
Existing voters ID are fruits of a ‘poisoned tree’ – EC tells Supreme Court
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana says it is unable to comply with the Supreme Court’s directive to clean the existing voters album by clearing all names of persons that used the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Card as proof of identify as Ghanaians to register because of challenges in identifying such names.
Tell us why you omitted existing voters ID in new registration exercise – Supreme Court to EC
A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court has directed the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to furnish it with the legal basis why it omitted the inclusion of the existing voters ID card from the list of national IDs acceptable for the upcoming compilation of a new voters register.
Pay your debt to the state if you have money and go for your properties – Supreme Court tells Woyome
The Supreme Court of the land has told businessman and financier of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to honour his indebtedness to the state if he has money and go for his properties which the country is seeking leave of the court to acquire. Woyome had appeared before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 2, […]