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Diana Asonaba Dapaah, Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice nomineeThe President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has today released the list of persons to occupy various Deputy Ministerial portfolios.Diana Asonaba Dapaah has been nominated by the President of Ghana as one of the two Deputies for the Office Of Attorney General and Minister …

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The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah, has declared Monday, April 12 to Friday April 16, 2021, as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Week for the legal year. A statement from the Judicial Service, said the focus of the ADR Week was to reduce “the backlog of cases at the 131 participating courts.” The week is under …

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Kimathi & Partners Corporate Attorneys Ghana February 24 2020 Laws and institutionsMultilateral conventions relating to arbitration Is your jurisdiction a contracting state to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards? Since when has the Convention been in force? Were any declarations or notifications made under articles I, X and XI …

First-step analysis: arbitration in Ghana (Extract from LEXOLOGY) Read More »

Alternative Dispute Resolution practitioners can now refer to a unified document containing simplified provisions, clauses and procedures for adjudicating cases. The hundred-page ADR rule book launched by the Ghana ADR Hub is expected to simplify clauses; arbitration initiating processes, and rules governing arbitration. Alternative Dispute Resolution was introduced into Ghana’s Judicial System in the year …

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President of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Francis Koffie, says the wheels of justice in the country have become too rusty that cases elongate in the orthodox judicial system unduly. A case that may be projected to take four days or less to resolve as lawyers usually state in their …

Ghana Bar President Decries Rusty Wheels Of Justice Read More »

A forum of senior Judges and Lawyers has justified the need for environmental disputes to be resolved through arbitration, saying that ensures both economic and social benefits. At a colloquium in Accra on Arbitration in Ghana, the panel of members of the Bench and Bar were unanimous in their opinion that arbitration has to be …

Judges, Lawyers Demand Arbitration For Environmental Disputes Read More »