CASE
STUDIES.

Plain-language explainers of strategy, law, and civic stakes, so the public can follow the fight without a law degree.

CASE STUDIES

Each study answers: What happened? What did we file? Why does it matter to ordinary Ghanaians? What comes next?

CHALLENGING THE GHANA–US DEPORTATION MOU

Why an unratified executive arrangement on third-country transfers raises Article 75 questions, how detention and onward removal engage international protections, and why the same arrangement is now before the ECOWAS Court.

Parliamentary approval and executive foreign arrangements
Non-refoulement and conditions of holding
Interlocutory relief as a civic shield
How media and court records interact

LINKED ACTIVE CASE ↗

TAKING THIRD-COUNTRY REMOVALS REGIONAL

Why we took the deportee transfers to the ECOWAS Court, and what regional law adds to the Supreme Court case.

Community law and individual petition pathways
Disclosure as a remedy
Coalition litigation with clinics and NGOs
What “return to harm” means in practice

LINKED ACTIVE CASE ↗

A PROTEST BANNED “UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE”

How #FixTheCountry’s conveners overturned a High Court order, obtained without notice to them, that banned their protest indefinitely, and why the Supreme Court held that an ex parte order cannot outlive ten days.

Ex parte orders and the right to be heard
The ten-day limit in Order 25
Why the Court quashed one part and refused the other
What it means for every future protest

CONCLUDED CASE ↗

HOW EACH STUDY IS WRITTEN.

Every case study in the series follows the same structure so citizens can compare fights over time.

FACTS

What the state did or failed to do: sourced and dated.

LAW

Constitutional provisions, statutes, treaties: named plainly.

STRATEGY

Why this forum, this remedy, this timing.

CIVIC STAKE

What changes for ordinary Ghanaians if the case succeeds or fails.

CASE STUDIES.