Official website of the Parliament of Ghana. There is information on the history of the Ghanian parliament, profiles of mps and an outline of how laws are made. A selection of full text legislation is given along with recent order papers and entries in Hansard. Details of the various committees are also given and policy briefs, fact sheets and budget statements can be viewed in full.
The Judicial Training Institute (JTI) is a Ghanaian organisation providing training for judges, magistrates and judicial staff in Ghana. The JTI organises “programmes and activities to meet both the professional needs of individual members of the judiciary and the judicial service and the capacity-building needs of the judiciary and the judicial service as a whole”.
Electronic copy of the 1992 Ghanaian Constitution made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution is provided in PDF and is amended up to 1996. There are chapters on fundamental rights, representation of the people, the role of the executive, legislature and judiciary along with the freedom of the media, public services, local government and the chieftaincy.
The Ghana Legal Information Institute (GhaLII) provides access to the Ghana Gazette and to Ghanaian court decisions. It also has a Legislation section that will contain acts, laws and subsidiary legislation, but this has no content at the time of writing (May 2021). The site is intended for use by the general public to deepen research in Ghanaian and African law.
Part of WorldLII's Countries service, this page gives links to websites for Ghanaian legal research, grouped under the headings Courts and Case Law, Education, Government, Legislation and so on; also has links to websites for particular areas of law: Constitutional, Criminal, Electoral, Foreign Investment and Telecommunications. WorldLII is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
Official website of the Ghanaian judicial service, the organisation with responsibility for the administration of justice in Ghana. The site provides a guide to and history of the Ghanaian legal system and the courts. There are lists of key post holders and judicial figures dating back to the nineteenth century and details of members of the Judicial Council. A full-text copy of the Constitution can be viewed on the site along with acts and regulations relating to the Ghanaian courts.
Law in Ghana is an online subscription database produced by DataCenta Ltd, an electronic publishing company based in Ghana. The site provides access to computerised versions of Ghana's legal materials including statutes, law reports, legal news and journal articles.
The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) is a cooperative legal information initiative led by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) providing access to freely available legal materials from all Commonwealth countries. CommonLII contains over 400 databases providing case law, legislation, treaties and law reform reports from more than 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories.
Online resource guide to researching Ghanaian law written by Victor Essien who is International Law Librarian and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in New York. The guide was published in 2005 on the Globalex Website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The guide gives background and historical information to Ghana and details of sources of law and legal materials. There is a bibliography of Ghanaian secondary materials and links to online resources are given where available.
