What should justice look like when a person commits a minor offence? Must accountability always require imprisonment, or can punishment repair harm while allowing offenders to remain connected to their families, livelihoods, and communities? On 8 July 2026, Ghana’s Parliament passed the Community Service Bill, 2026, introducing a formal framework through which courts may impose
Accra, Ghana | July 2026 Senior Partner at Merton & Everett LLP, Oliver Barker-Vormawor recently participated as a panellist at the Next Steps Conference on Reparatory Justice, hosted in Accra, Ghana under the leadership of President John Mahama and the Government of Ghana. The conference marked a defining moment in the global reparations movement, convening
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Accra — 30 July 2026 Merton & Everett LLP welcomes the unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court of Ghana delivered on Wednesday, 29 July 2026 in Noah Ephraem Tetteh Adamtey v The Attorney-General (Suit No. J1/3/2026), upholding the constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and affirming the prosecutorial mandate
Accra — 30 July 2026 Merton & Everett LLP is honoured to announce that on Wednesday, 29 July 2026, the Supreme Court of Ghana delivered judgment in favour of our clients, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe and Dr Christine Amoako-Nuamah, in their constitutional challenge to the delegate-based electoral college systems used by political parties
