Tag Archives: SUPREME

Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi is a name that reverberates in Ghana’s judicial system. The person behind the name is a Supreme Court justice who was sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a member of Ghana’s apex court. From his poor village of Issa in the Upper West Region, Justice Kulendi beat a …

The Supreme Court of Norway has, in a unanimous preliminary determination by a panel of three (3), refused to grant leave to appeal to Messrs. Jongsbru AS, party to a judgment of the Norway Court of Appeal previously given in favour of the Government of Ghana on November 2, 2022. …

The US Supreme Court has been unable to determine how a controversial draft decision regarding abortion was leaked before it was formally announced. On Thursday, investigators said that they still do not know whether the leak was deliberate or unintentional after eight months of opening the probe. In May, a …

The head of Ethiopia’s Supreme Court, Meaza Ashenafi, and her deputy, Solomon Areda, have resigned. According to BBC.com report, the two did not give any reason for their resignation. Judge Meaza, was appointed Supreme Court president in 2018 by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s …

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for ex-President Donald Trump’s tax forms to be released to a Democratic-controlled congressional committee. The justices rejected Mr Trump’s bid in October to block a lower court’s ruling that granted the panel’s request for his financial records. The move is a blow …

Mr. Apatsea Isaac Kwasi who recently lost his election to lead the NDC in upper Denkyira East as a constituency chairman has posited that the NDC will win the 2024 Elections convincelly to  avoid any Supreme challenges. He has therefore pledged his support to the new executives and has promised …

NDC National Youth Organizer aspirant, Brogya Genfi, has filed a writ at the Supreme Court for the annulment of the election of the NPP MP for Tolon Constituency, Habibu Iddrisu, on grounds that the MP has been convicted of fraud and forgery in Australia. In the writ, the plaintiff indicated …

The Majority in Parliament has initiated an action at the Supreme Court with regard to Speaker Alban Bagbin’s ruling on Adwoa Safo‘s absenteeism case. The Writ, yet to be filed, titled Sulemana Adamu Sanid, the plaintiff vs The Attorney General is to challenge the Speaker’s ruling not to automatically activate the …

The four Judges nominated to the Supreme Court bench by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo are being vetted by the Appointments Committee of Parliament. The vetting commenced on October 18, 2022, and so far two nominees have successfully completed their vetting awaiting approval. They are Justice Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu and …

Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, the judge at the trial of former COCOBOD Chief Executive, Dr Stephen Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo, was once removed from the case after being found to have exhibited bias tendency towards the first accused. “There is a real likelihood of bias on the part of …