The Legal Aid Commission (LAC) in collaboration with the Legal Resources Centre have commenced their Legal aid week celebration in the Volta regional capital, Ho. The celebration, according to the organisers, is planned to be an annual celebration to highlight the existence of the Legal Aid Commission and to help the poor who cannot afford […]
Legal Aid Commission (LAC), in collaboration with Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has called on the public, particularly the poor and vulnerable, to access the services of the LAC when faced with legal challenges. According to the Upper East Regional Director of Legal Aid Commission, Lawyer Richard Adazabra, the Commission exists to help the poor and […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a lead advocate for the Ghana Case Tracking System has organised a sensitization workshop for stakeholders including community monitoring groups in the Volta region to further deepen their participation in the initiative. The workshop, which is supported by Commonwealth Human Rights initiative and Crime Check Foundation with funding from United States […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has organised a sensitization workshop on the Ghana Case-Tracking System (CTS) for Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital. Ghana, in 2018 launched the first electronic Integrated Criminal Justice CTS project to support key stakeholders in the justice delivery system to collect, collate and harmonize statistical […]
A Rule of Law Specialist with the Legal Resources Centre, Enock Jengre has urged government to resource the Legal Aid Commission to enhance justice delivery through the implementation of Ghana’s Case Tracking System (CTS). According to him, inadequate budgetary allocation, logistics and lawyers to enable the Commission operate effectively and efficiently in the delivery of […]
Mr Enock Jengre, a Rule of Law Specialist at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), has called for the enactment of a legislation to mandate lawyers in Ghana to offer free legal services to vulnerable citizens on yearly basis. He said even though some lawyers offered free legal services to their clients, they were not bound […]
Mr Enock Jengre, Rule of Law Specialist at Legal Resources Centre (LRC), has called on stakeholders in the judicial sector to uphold the sector’s integrity and accountability to maintain public confidence in the justice system. He said “When justice is inaccessible, the result is injustice, injustice leads to bitterness, anger, revolt and ultimately political and […]
The implementing partners of the USAID Ghana Justice Sector Support (JSS) activity have held discussions with the management of the Ghana News Agency for collaboration towards making justice more accessible to the vulnerable. The partners – the Legal Resource Centre, Ghana Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Crime Check Foundation – want the GNA to […]
High cost of initiating or defending suits, limited and under-resourced justice institutions, the complexity of judicial processes, disempowerment, perverse delays in administering of justice caused by frequent adjournments, missing case dockets, slow processing of documentation due to high caseloads, high perception of corruption leading to minimal trust by the public in the Ghanaian courts, high […]