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The case of Re Akoto and 7 Others is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana that challenged the legality of the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). [1] The case centered on the arrest of Baffour Akoto, the then Chief Linguist of the Asantehene, along with seven others, who were detained under the Preventive Detention Act (PDA).
Three stark changes for the system are throughout the colonial period, the beginnings of independence and the 1960 Criminal Procedure Code (Act 30), and the newest Juvenile Justice Act (Act 653). [1] The justice system first emerged in colonial Ghana between 1906 and 1911. [2]
A patent according to section 1 of the Patent Act, is the right to protect an invention. [15] In the Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case of Davoll et al. v. Brown, Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests are as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks ...
In 1963, the NRC merged with the former Ghana Academy of Sciences, a statutory learned society. Following a review in 1966, the academy was reconstituted into, essentially, its original component bodies, namely a national research organization redesignated the CSIR and a learned Society, designated the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2]
With the inception of constitutional rule in 1992, the Commission status reverted to the "Council" once more. In consequence of a statute law revision exercise under the laws of Ghana (Revised Edition) Act, 1998 (Act 562), the nomenclature of the Authority was changed to the current, "National Youth Authority".
The Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDL) is the institution mandated by the 1992 constitution of Ghana to act as the regulatory authority for all activities related to railways in Ghana. [ 1 ] It is a statutory body established by the Railways Act, 2008 (Act 779) to ensure the development and modernization of the railway systems, both ...
The 1957 Constitution of Ghana provided that nationality would be defined in law, and subsequently the Ghana Nationality and Citizenship Act was promulgated on 11 May 1957. [82] Under its terms persons who had been BPPs or CUKCs and were born in Ghana and whose father or paternal grandfather was born in the territory were conferred nationality ...
The General Legal Council is the body that regulates the Legal Profession in Ghana.It was set up in 1960 by an act of parliament, The Legal Profession Act, 1960 (Act 32). Its role was to oversee legal education and the legal profession in the coun