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  The Supreme Court says it has made arrangements to have proceedings of the 2020 Election Petition telecast live on national television. Professor Nii Ashie Kotey, a member of the seven-member panel, said the Supreme Court decided on its own to allow for a live telecast of proceedings, saying, it was in the laws. Former President John Dramani Mahama, the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), had requested that the Apex Court allowed the proceedings to be telec...

President Akufo-Addo To Raise Preliminary Objection In Election Petition

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EC to file response at Supreme Court over Mahamas election petition LISTEN JAN 5, 2021 The Electoral Commission (EC) is preparing to file its response as the First Respondent to the election petition filed by Former President John Dramani Mahama at the Supreme Court on December 30 last year. A highly placed source at the Commission told the Ghana News Agency that the Commission received the writ of summons last week and was putting together information and legal team for the hearing. The p...

I won’t disturb the peace of Ghana – John Mahama The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said he values Ghana and all the people. Mr Mahama explained that he refused to accept the results of the 2020 elections because of, among other things, his principles. Addressing the nation on Wednesday, December 30 after he filed a petition at the Supreme Court to challenge the results of the polls, Mr Mahama said “Increasingly, many of us who are trying to understand...

KK v Leeds CC & DK [2020] EWCOP 64 This was a decision of Cobb J in which he considered the rules relating to joinder in Court of Protection Proceedings and the correct procedure in circumstances where the existing parties resist joinder of an applicant, but for reasons which are not openly stated. This was a decision of Mr Justice Cobb in Court of Protection proceedings concerning DK, a 19-year-old highly vulnerable woman with global learning disabilities, an autistic spectrum disorder, and a...

In the matter of H (Step-Parent Adoption) [2020] EWFC 86 Cobb J gives a short judgment on an application under s46 Adoption and Children Act 2002 by a step-father to adopt a 17 year old girl (H). H was born in Thailand. Her parents never married and although he was named on the birth certificate the father did not acquire parental responsibility. H and her mother have lived in the UK with the father since 2011. The mother and step-father have married and have 2 younger children together. H and...