“The barring of the person just because she has been charged with those criminal offences means that she is being punished and denied her right to participate in a company as a director on account of being charged with the criminal offence even though the...
Our Managing Partner, Adelaide Benneh Prempeh, is featured in the Business & Financial Times today, highlighting our Firm's commitment to embrace the United Nations Global Compact's climate resilience mission. At B&P ASSOCIATES, Lawyers & Consultants, we lead by example, aiming for a sustainable future not only in Ghana but globally. Read below to...
Background Ghana’s new Environmental Protection Act, 2025 (Act 1124) (“the Act”) was assented to on 6th January 2025, ushering in a modern and comprehensive framework for environmental protection. The Act repeals the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1994 (Act 490) and the Hazardous and Electronic Waste Control and...
To further Ghana’s objective of optimizing national benefit from the gold value chain, the Gold Board Act, 2025 (Act 1140) has been enacted to establish a centralized regulatory framework for governing the gold trading and marketing industry. The Act establishes the Ghana Gold Board (the...
Introduction The Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036) introduces, among other things, a unified and comprehensive framework for land registration in Ghana. Central to this system is the land certificate, a key document evidencing an individual’s title in land. Sections 125 to 129 of Act 1036 outline...
The Panama Papers and its Contribution to the Reinvigorated Calls for Global Transparency Through Beneficial Ownership Reporting At the beginning of April 2016, over 11.5 million documents dated from 1977 to 2015, were published on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ website after almost a year...
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In 2024, Ghana's Parliament took a monumental step by enacting the Affirmative Action Act, a pivotal move aimed at addressing gender disparity and establishing specific targets, including the ambitious goal of achieving 50% gender equity by 2034. The success of this landmark legislation relies not...
“We have noted with deep concern, the burgeoning trend of Courts and the Labour Commission to indiscriminately brand termination effected under Section 17 of the Labour Act or provisions in the contract of employment which have the same or similar import as Section 17, as...
“As a principle of law, the Plaintiff can rely on the weakness in the Defendant’s case when he had discharged the burden imposed on him. Once discharged, he was entitled to relief, but where he had failed to lead evidence that would constitute proof in...