Notices from the Office of Legal Counsel
We are pleased to inform you that with effect from 1st May 2019, The Office of the Legal Counsel (OLC) has been relocated to a New Building.
Our new Offices can be located in the Central Accounts Building (near Cash Office) at the Registrary.
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Dear all,
The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) wishes to inform the University Community that all requests for draft or review of Agreements, including but not limited to commercial and non-commercial agreements, should be delivered to the OLC in the following manner:
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Dear all,
Following our notice of 15 March 2020 on the above, the Office of Legal Counsel kindly requests the University community to continue to send all requests for advice, legal opinions, drafting and review of agreements in soft form (word format) with scanned supporting documents to legalcounsel@ug.edu.gh with a copy to legalcounsel.olc@ug.edu.gh.
We count on your cooperation.
Thank you.
Signed
Legal Counsel
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Dear all,
In compliance with the UG Financial Regulations and Governance Policy, the Office of Legal Counsel wishes to inform the University Community to kindly take note of the following:
Commercial & Non-Commercial Transactions
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The Office of Legal Counsel wishes to inform the University Community of the procedures to be adopted in filing an appeal and reporting acts of corruption as provided under the Rules and Regulations of the University.
1. Filing an Appeal – Rule 10 of The Appeals Board Rules, 2018
An appeal regarding or in connection with;
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The Office of Legal Counsel wishes to inform the University Community of the procedures to be adopted for entering into Commercial and Non-Commercial Arrangements or Transactions on behalf of the University as provided under Policy Numbers 1403 and 2200 (3.15, 4.3) of the Financial Regulations and Governance Policy, 2020 of the University of Ghana.
The Summary Procedures are as follows:
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CopyGhana commenced an action against the University of Ghana (UG) claiming that the mass photocopying of literary works by students and lecturers from photocopier machines provided by the Balme Library and private photocopy shops on the UG campus without UG obtaining a license, constitute an infringement of the exclusive Reproduction Rights of Authors and Publishers under Copyright Laws of Ghana.
The parties have since settled the matter and the terms of settlement have been adopted by the court as consent judgement.
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