Week1
TopicGhana Legal System
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Week2
TopicCommon Law and Statutory Law
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Week3
TopicConstitutional law – The Constitution of the Republic of Ghana 1992
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Week4
TopicCitizenship
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Week5
TopicContract law – relevant aspect in Church ministry
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Week6
TopicCorporate law: Incorporate and unincorporated church. Advantages of the corporate form or organisation – The Companies Act 1963 (Act 179); Registration of Business names Act 1962 (ACT 151); The terms charter, constitution, bylaws and resolution.
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Week7
TopicCorporate law: The legal priorities among these terms; Legal effect of church meetings conducted in violation of a church’s bylaws.
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Week8
TopicFamily, Matrimony and Divorce: Marriages Act, 1884-1985 CAP. 127; Three Legal forms of marriage in Ghana; Customary marriage and Divorce (Registration) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 112 (Amendment) Law, 1991;
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Week9
TopicProperty rights of spouses Bill; Women and children’s rights – The Children’s Act 1998, Ghana; Adoption of children in Ghana
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Week10
TopicLand law – Customary Land law; Land Registry Act, 1962.
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Week11
TopicHuman Rights and Freedoms: General fundamental freedoms; Equality, Freedom from Discrimination and Fair Trial.
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Week12
TopicHuman Rights and Freedoms: Free speech and freedom of religion; Persons Detained under emergency law; protection of rights by the courts.
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Week13
TopicThe Clergy and the Law: Legal concept of negligence and its application to clergy and churches; Varieties of invasion of privacy and their relevance to clergy; Abuse reporting laws and consequences of a failure to report known or reasonably suspected incidents of abuse;
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Week14
TopicThe Clergy and the Law: Legal requirement clergy must follow in performing marriage ceremonies; Circumstances in which the civil court may intervene in internal church disputes; Tax law related to churches and clergy.
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