By Eric Delanyo Alifo | Executive Director
HelpLaw Ghana Hugely Impacts the Criminal Justice System of Ghana in 2014
As a result of some sponsorship in 2014, we were able to get a few lawyers to take up pro bono cases for HelpLaw Ghana, for which some honorarium was given to each at the end of every month after a number of cases have been reported. By the close of the year, we have represented over 73 indigent accused persons who would otherwise have been dragged through judicial proceedings without legal representation and thereby denied justice.
In addition to the above,the Founder of HelpLaw Ghana was personally involved in a "Justice for All Programme" that took him and a few other lawyers to the prisons of Kumasi, Tarkwa, Takoradi, Winneba, and Ankaful, where they secured the outright discharge, or bail for a large number of inmates, whose warrants had long expired, and many of who had been held on remand without trial between 4 and 10 years. Part of this programme took place during 2014 legal vacation, but extended into the period after the vacation and made it terribly difficult to combine it with the regular HelpLaw Ghana cases in the courts. There was no rest at all, but we were working to bring justice to the poor who are often neglected. Our vision lives on and we are not relenting.
Thank you all, family and friends, for the wonderful support some of you continue to give.
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