The Legal Aid Commission has trained recruits on providing services for new Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) effectively and efficiently. The administrative staff will act as administrators and mediators in the various legal aid offices across the country. The recruits received training in ADR approaches, professional mediation strategies, community mediation tactics, administrative commission procedures, and other […]
Officials of Legal Resource Centre (LRC) have through funding support from USAID sponsored a 4-day training workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanism and Administrative Procedures for new staff of the Legal Aid Commission (LAC). The training falls within the scope of LRC’s current project which is the “USAID Justice Sector Support Activity”; a 2-year […]
Legal Resources Centre (LRC), implementation lead of USAID, Justice Sector Support Activity, has organised a roundtable discussion on the advocacy for review of the Evidence Act 1975 (NRCD 323) and C.I 87. The discussion brought together relevant stakeholders to find ways of resolving the inherent conflict in Order 26 rule 4 of C. I 47 […]
Stakeholders in the justice delivery system have called for the review or repeal of Section 6 of the Evidence Act and CI 87 to enhance the speedy adjudication of cases in the country. The stakeholders contend that the review or repeal of the Act would resolve conflicts and ensure speedy trials. The Evidence Act, which […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has called on the government, to as a matter of urgency, support human rights institutions for them to successfully carry out their respective mandates. According to a Rule of Law Specialist at Legal Resources Centre, Enock Jengre, it has become imperative for government to fully support institutions such as the […]
The Legal Resources Centre has organised a stakeholders forum in the Bolga East District of the Upper East Region, to create awareness on each institution’s mandate to help the citizens access support services on rights violation. The program which was organised by the legal resources Centre with support from the USAID and in collaboration […]
A Rule of Law Specialist at the Legal Resources Centre, Enock Jengre has called on Ghanaians to take advantage of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism to resolve minor offences such as rent litigations, family litigations and land disputes among other petty offences to speed up justice delivery in the country. According to him, ADR […]
A day’s sensitization workshop has been held on the Community Service Bill. The workshop which was under the auspices of the Legal Resources Center with support from USAID was held on Monday May 23, 2022. It brought together participants from both Public and Private Sector agencies in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region. […]
Actors in the justice delivery system in the country have been called upon to regularly use the Case-Tracking System (CTS) to expedited justice delivery. Mr Enock Jengre, Rule of Law Specialist at Legal Resources Centre (LRC), who made the call, urged the justice sector institutions to see the CTS as a platform that would help […]