PUTTING THE CHIEF JUSTICE IN THE DOCK On 17 December activist and legal academic Stephen Kwaku Asare petitioned the President to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo for alleged misbehaviour and incompetence...
The petitioner Stephen Kwaku Asare disagrees with Akufo-Addo's conclusion but the petition is now foreclosed according to lawyers in Accra...
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In 2012 lawyer and civic activist Stephen Kwaku Asare unsuccessfully challenged this provision at the Supreme Court arguing that it was discriminatory and insiders expect the amendment to face stiff opposition from the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu...
Stephen Kwaku Asare pointed out that back in 1899 an English judge had ruled that committals for criminal contempt were obsolete except in ‘small colonies consisting principally of coloured populations'...