Some Female prisoners at the Sekondi Female Prisons have graduated after six months of intensive vocational skills and entrepreneurial education. They were taken through courses in millinery and accessories, interior and floral decorations, cosmetology and soap making to enable them to start their businesses through the startup component of the…
Throughout the world, there is a visible shift in the legal sector as organisations and individuals opt to resolve disputes through means other than litigation.
The Parliamentary Committee on Local Government and Rural Development has pledged its support for the Decriminalising Vagrancy Laws and Advocacy (DVLA) Project, a Crime Check Foundation (CCF) initiative geared towards reforming Ghana’s justice system. As a result, the committee's leadership promised to support advocacy and reform efforts targeted at stopping…
Dear Mirror Lawyer, I am a Class Two teacher in the Ejisu Local Authority Primary School in the Ashanti Region. I recently moved to Ejisu after being appointed as a teacher there.
On June 23 this year, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service announced a “freeze” on accepting new clients to its criminal law practice. For at least three months, no Indigenous person charged with a crime in Victoria would get any advice or representation from their dedicated service. Anyone who came knocking would be referred “to other services”.