Category: Volume IV Issue I

and must be seen to thrive for orderliness, equity, and peace to reign. Whose responsibility is it to dispense justice, and encourage equality? The Judiciary is the organ that interprets the law, guards the constitution, defends rights, punishes law breakers, and settles disputes among the state and its citizens, or...

According to Montesquieu, there would be an end of everything if the same person exercised the powers of implementing public decisions, enacting laws, and deciding cases. For this reason, democratic countries have incorporated the doctrine of separation of powers in their jurisdictions. Kenya, being one of the democratic countries, has...

Electoral democracy in most post-colonial countries such as Nigeria has not been successful in terms of reducing the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Thus, electoral democracy in these countries is inseparable from monumental and brazen electoral manipulations. To surmount these challenges successive governments in Nigeria have launched various innovative ideas and...

One of the most unexplored areas of Ghanaian jurisprudence is the law on domicile and jurisdiction of companies, and essentially legal persons. The Court of Appeal in Sanyo Electric Trading v Quarcoopome was given the opportunity to state what the law is in relation to these matters. While the court...

For a considerable length of time, the concept of child rights was alien to many jurisdictions. Children were mainly regarded as chattels and factors to bolster economic production. On that premise, child labour was rampant and child exploitation was the norm. Over time, the conceptualization of children evolved and children...

As churches play a pivotal role in shaping societal values and norms, the question of their fiscal contribution to the nation’s development becomes crucial. The immunity granted to religious institutions has been open to questioning due to the present business orientations in churches featuring an unorthodox model of accumulating wealth....