Legal Notes are summaries of important legal concepts, principles, and rules. They provide a quick reference guide for lawyers, law students, and legal professionals to understand complex legal issues. Here are some Legal Notes on various topics:
– Contract Law: A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. Essential elements include offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, and capacity to contract.
– Tort Law: Tort is a civil wrong that causes harm or injury to another person. Key concepts include negligence, duty of care, breach, causation, and damages.
– Criminal Law: Criminal law deals with offenses against the state or society. Important concepts include mens rea (guilty mind), actus reus (guilty act), and strict liability.
– Family Law: Family law governs relationships between family members. Key concepts include marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, and spousal maintenance.
– Property Law: Property law deals with ownership and possession of property. Important concepts include real property, personal property, freehold, leasehold, and easements.
– Evidence Law: Evidence law governs the admissibility of evidence in court. Key concepts include relevance, reliability, hearsay, and privilege.
– Company Law: Company law regulates the incorporation, management, and winding up of companies. Important concepts include incorporation, shares, directors, and shareholders.
– Tax Law: Tax law governs the imposition and collection of taxes. Key concepts include income tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax, and tax deductions.
Section 135 of the ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT (Act 798) defines the concept Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as the collective description of methods of resolving disputes otherwise than through the normal trial process. This system of adjudication has been part of the traditional dispute resolution process well before the advent of colonialism. Sections 72 and […]
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WHAT ARE THE JURISDICTIONS OF THE COURT? Three types of jurisdiction: • ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: where a person goes to the trial court for the first time. • APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Where a dissatisfied party brings his dissatisfaction to another court. The court of appeal has only appellate jurisdiction, the high court has both appellate and original
WHAT ARE THE CLASSIFICATIONS OR DIVISIONS OF THE BRANCHES OF THE LAW? This refers to the grouping together of the law because of specific similarities in their origin, principle and their application and effect in the field of law. It implies organizing legal information into subjects or fields of learning for the sole purpose of
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WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF GHANA LAW? MEANING OF SOURCES OF LAW The terms sources of law may have several meanings. • It may mean that which gives the law its formal validity (formal source) for example the constitution. • It may also mean the direct means which law is made or comes into existence
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Ghana’s legal tradition belongs predominantly to the commonwealth tradition but also has elements of two other traditions thus the African law tradition and the religion based tradition. Because of this our legal system is said to be pluralistic. Our legal system is common law based. Ghana’s legal system is divided into criminal and civil. As
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WHAT IS A LEGAL TRADITION? A legal tradition is an aspect of a general culture and needs to be distinguished from a national legal system , meaning the body of rules in operation in a particular society at a given time, together with the institutions which go with them. Legal systems may be grouped into
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WHAT IS A COMMISSION OR COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY? Commission of enquiry (or committee of enquiry)is a mechanism under our constitution for investigating any matter of public interest . Commission of enquiry should not be confused with department of enquiry. Commission of enquiry is used in matters of national interest. Before independence it was regulated by
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WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS? According to Lauterpacht, “Human rights are universal rights or enabling qualities attaching to the human being. These qualities follow from the realization that as a matter of scientific fact, man is distinguishable from other living beings because he is a rational and moral person who must shape his life in accordance
WHAT IS NATURAL JUSTICE? The Expression ‘Natural Justice’ can be used in two senses: Broader and narrower sense. In the wider or less technical sense, it means what is fair or what is reasonable or what is inherently equitable in a sense that everybody can relate to. The second is used to mean certain procedure,
WHAT IS JUDICIAL REVIEW? Judicial Review is used to describe two separate ideas: • Judicial Review in relation to the constitution : This is a constitutional arrangement in which the judiciary has been given power to review the actions of the other organs of government to ensure that they stay within their limits. • Judicial
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