Tag Archives: SUPREME

Events got more interesting at the Supreme Court on the second day of the 2020 election petition as Tsatsu Tsikata, counsel for John Dramani Mahama, exchanged words with a member of the Supreme Court panel hearing the case. On the chopping board today was a request by lawyers for John …

The Supreme Court has dismissed a motion filed by the lawyers of former President John Dramani Mahama in the election petition case seeking to compel the Electoral Commission (EC) to provide answers to some questions known in the legal parlance as interrogatories. In law, interrogatories are a formal set of …

National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has said that the forefathers of the party and the spirit of their founder Jerry John Rawlings will see them through the election petition. Speaking in an interview on Ahotor FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Dr. Ofosu Ampofo said that the God who supported them to …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says that the Declaration of President-Elect Instrument is the proper method “at law” for declaring a winner of a Presidential Election and not the initial announcement by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission which has no basis in law. This was contained in his Response dated 8 …

The Bright Addae Foundation on Sunday 3rd January 2020 pledged to supports a Kumasi based Women’s Football team Supreme by providing training kids for a team.     Dickson Boadi, the Administrative/ Operations Manager for the Bright Addae Foundation on Tuesday 5th January 2020 stormed the team’s training grounds at …

The Supreme Court has set December 3, 2020, to rule on the constitutionality of a GH¢184 million surcharge slapped on Zoomlion Ghana Limited by the Auditor-General’s Department. According to a report by the Daily Graphic, a seven-member panel of the apex court will give an interpretation of the constitutional provision …

The Supreme Court is set to deal with any election petition that will arise out of the 2020 elections in 42 days maximum. Justice Jones Dotse, the Chairperson of the Election Manual Review Committee, any suit challenging a presidential election will only be allowed from contestants in the election and …

The Supreme Court will later today, Wednesday, October 14, 2020, hear the application by Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong for intervention in his contempt trial ongoing at the High Court. Mr. Agyapong applied to the apex court to exercise its supervisory jurisdiction over the lower courts and …

The Supreme Court has suspended all cases billed to be heard this week over COVID-19 fears. The move comes in the wake of rumours that some judges of the Superior Courts have tested for the virus and are currently in mandatory Isolation. Checks by Starrfm.com.gh at the Apex court revealed …

    Policy think tank, IMANI Africa has served notice it will petition the Supreme Court in the ongoing case between the NDC and the Electoral Commission over the voter’s register. IMANI, ASEPA and other CSOs say their decision to file amicus curiae in the landmark case is to challenge …