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The Supreme Court has deferred the ruling on the injunction application by Dr Amanda Odoi and Broadcast Journalist, Richard Sky to the transmission of the anti-LGBTQ bill to the President and rather deliver the ruling on the same day the final judgement will be given. The five-member panel, chaired by Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo stated … Read more
Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo Advertisement Ghana’s Supreme Court has deferred the ruling on the request to restrain Parliament from transmitting the Anti-LGBT bill filed by Dr. Amanda Odoi, until the substantive case is heard and determined. The 5-member panel, chaired by Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo the pronouncement on the application for an interlocutory injunction against … Read more
The Judicial Council has approved the learned Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, Professor of Law and legal academic Prof. Richard Frimpong Oppong and his co-nominee, the learned Justice of the Court of Appeal, Her Ladyship Justice Sophia Rosetta Bernasko Essah for the Supreme Court Bench. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, announced the … Read more
The Majority in Parliament has come to the defence of the Chief Justice’s proposal to increase the number of Supreme Court judges to 20. Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Torkornoo has presented five judges to President Akufo-Addo to be nominated to the Supreme Court, attributing this to a high volume of cases. The National Democratic Congress … Read more
Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin Advertisement The minimum number of Supreme Court judges as set out in the 1992 constitution is evidence of the fact that the framers of the constitution in their wisdom had anticipated that, there would be a future need to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court, the Majority Alexander … Read more
Advertisement The Supreme Court must be allowed to go through reformation through expansion in terms of numbers, the Majority Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said. He argues that the minimum number of Supreme Court judges as set out in the 1992 constitution is evidence of the fact that, the framers of the constitution in their wisdom had … Read more
Advertisement The Majority Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said that the decision of the Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana, Gertrude Torkornoo to recommend five Justices for appointment to the Supreme Court comes on the back of multiple cases the Supreme Court is always saddled with. He explained that Ghana’s Supreme Court is not being packed … Read more
Advertisement The substantial increase in the backlog of 414 and 595 cases in the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 legal years, during which there were the fewest number of Justices of the Supreme Court for the five-year period under review, provided empirical justification for the need to expand the number of Justices at the Supreme Court to … Read more
Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo Advertisement The Constitutional Review Committee had recommended that Ghana should cap the number of Supreme Court judges at 15, so the issue of capping the number of justices of the apex court is not for the chief justice to say, Former President John Dramani Mahama has said. Mr Mahaa stated that … Read more
Advertisement Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that if he is voted for to become president again in this year’s elections, his administration will resurrect the constitutional review process on the capping of the number of justices of the Supreme Court. He says he will put it to the Ghanaians whether they should retain … Read more