Blog of the UG-LSU
Law is so lucrative not because it’s one of the most difficult concepts of life to appreciate but because law is not static. It’s dynamic. Constant. Like a chronic cold. It never ends. There’s always someone buying a drug, committing suicide, robbing a grocery shop, embezzlement, trafficking. Most,if not all, situations involve the law. Law […]
In NPP v AG, (The 31st December Case) which was decided in 1993/94, Chief Justice Archer who was on the side of the minority cautioned that the Judiciary should not act like an Octopus and stretch it’s eight tentacles here and there looking for jurisdiction not constitutionally meant for it. In other words, he strongly […]
In recent times, feminist movements have made very strong waves. The ‘Me too’ movement, a movement championed by a formerly abused woman in Hollywood, for example, has left in its wake shattered careers of Hollywood moguls like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein to big politicians like US senator Al Franken, the self-styled giant of the senate, among […]
The history narrated to us of Africa’s development dwells largely on the misappropriation of African resources by the industrialized world, but fails to warn us of the current covert intellectual theft and business plagiarism by the industrialized world. “Intellectual theft” here refers to the stealing of ideas which originated from the minds of African intellectuals […]
https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2018/October-16th/video-landlord-rips-off-roof-of-tenant-over-rent.php About a month ago, I came across this story on MYJOYONLINE.com. The details are that Philomena Agyarko is a tenant in the suburb of Sowutuom in Accra. Just recently, while she and her family went out, her landlord ripped off the roof of her house for delaying rent payment for a month. They have […]
This article is intended to consider the crime of rape in Ghana and its gender limitations and recommend possible amendments that should be made to the existing law to render it more gender-neutral. For the purposes of this article, I undertook a research exercise for the purpose of acquiring data on; female and male exposure […]
In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India held unanimously in the case of Navtej Johar Singh v. Union of India that section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalizes consensual sexual activity between adults of the same sex. The section reads: Unnatural offences: Whoever voluntarily has […]