A 64-year-old retired quantity surveyor with the State Housing Corporation, Livingston Bosso, was last Friday, May 6, 2022, arrested for allegedly threatening a Justice of the Supreme Court. About 4 plain-clothed men who were accompanied by a uniformed police officer on Friday picked Mr Bosso in a black Toyota Land …
Read More »Meet Ghana’s first female Supreme Court Judge and only lady Speaker of Parliament
In a world where women are the marginalized group in the gender equation, there have been several stories of women beating the odds and writing their names in history by achieving high feats. Ghana’s history is filled with such women whose efforts and work have helped shape the country in …
Read More »Ghanaians will suffer intense hardship without E-levy – Supreme Court to Minority
The apex court panel of seven presided over by Justice Nene Amegatcher in a unanimous ruling said “greater hardship” will be caused to the Ghanaian if the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) is injuncted. In the unanimous ruling the court said, Greater hardship will be caused to the General public than …
Read More »Supreme Court dismisses injunction application against E-Levy
The Supreme Court by a unanimous decision has dismissed an application for an injunction at the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy). Three Members of Parliament; Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu; Mahama Ayariga, the MP for Bawku Central; and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the MP for North Tongu; are …
Read More »Supreme Court’s 5-2 ruling on Assin North MP a ‘travesty of Justice’ – John Dramani Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the Supreme Court’s ruling that barred the Assin North MP, James Gyakye Qayson, from performing parliamentary duties as a misrepresentation of justice. According to him, the apex court’s ruling is a deliberate display of disrespect to the country’s democracy. He said the representation of the …
Read More »Why Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to bar James Gyakye Quayson from discharging parliamentary duties
The Supreme Court of Ghana by a 5-2 majority decision on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, ordered Mr Gyekye Quayson to stop holding himself as a lawmaker. According to the apex court, the decision is in the utmost interest of Ghanaians. In the majority decision held by Justices Jones Dotse, Mariama Owusu, Gertrude …
Read More »Supreme Court stops Assin North MP from performing parliamentary duties
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, is not the Member of Parliament for Assin North. This comes after a citizen of Assin Bereku, by name of Michael Ankomah Nimfah, on January 27, 2022, filed an interlocutory injunction against the MP from performing his parliamentary …
Read More »Supreme Court’s 7-0, 9-0 rulings too ‘artificial’ – Festus Aboagye
Security analyst Col. Festus Aboagye (rtd) says recent judgments by the Supreme Court make it easy for some Ghanaians to have doubts over the fairness of their verdicts. The comment comes on the back of caution to judges by the National Security Minister Kan Dapaah over perceived bias in their …
Read More »Double salaries: Supreme Court orders substituted service on 9 MPs
The Supreme Court has ordered a substituted service on nine Members of Parliament who have been dragged to court over double salary payments. The apex granted the exparte motion after lawyers Kwame Baffoe, the Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) had told the court that, the defendants …
Read More »Supreme Court Justices rebuke Tsatsu Tsikata
The Justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 5, asked Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata to stop wasting their time and to assist the Court to make progress on the Assin North election-dispute-related application before it. According to the court, it had the duty to manage the case to a smooth and …
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