James Gyakye Quayson’s Counsel, Tsatsu Tsikata, returned to the High Court for a heated confrontation with Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame, merely two hours after the Court of Appeal dismissed his application to stay proceedings on the grounds of it being unmeritorious. According to The Chronicle report, the clash ensued during …
Read More »Drama in court as Tsatsu Tsikata ‘threatens’ Dame with jail in future, Dame replies
It was an interesting spectacle in court on Thursday, July 6, 2023, when veteran lawyer and counsel for Assin North MP, Tsatsu Tsikata moved his application for a stay of proceedings of the ongoing criminal trial of the MP (Gyakye Quayson). Tsatsu Tsikata in his affidavit in support of his application, had stated …
Read More »The World Bank made serious mistakes – Tsatsu Tsikata reacts to World Bank Country Director
The former CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata, has reacted to the comments made by the World Bank Country Director in Ghana, Pierre Frank Laporte, stating that the World Bank gets it wrong in understanding Ghana’s national energy situation. The renowned legal practitioner, made these comments while speaking …
Read More »You lack jurisdiction in Assin North 2020 Parliamentary polls – Tsatsu tells Supreme Court
Lawyers for the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, filed a supplement to their statement of the case in the Supreme Court following the order of the court on Tuesday. The Assin North MP had been given 14 days to file a …
Read More »How Tsatsu Tsikata’s first law school results were announced in 1969
Renowned academic and lawyer, Tsatsu Tsikata is one of the legal brains that has established his legacy in the law profession over the years. Aside from lecturing some of the country’s well-known lawyers including some Supreme Court Justices, the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah and Speaker, Alban Bagbin, he has served as counsel …
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 …
Read More »How Akufo-Addo, Tsatsu Tsikata delivered a legal blow to Parliament in 1979
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the legal luminary, Tsatsu Tsikata, may belong to different political ideologies when it comes to certain matters of constitutionality and principle, however, they have on few rare occasions been on the same side. One of such rare cases was in 1979 when they both represented Dr Kwame …
Read More »Tsatsu Tsikata recounts how Mfantsipim ‘bad boys’ cheered him on for breaking school rules
• Tsatsu Tsikata was a good boy during his time in school • He never engaged in any form of activity that was against the school rules and regulation • He was once influenced to break school rules and his colleagues cheered him on As quiet as he was in school, Tsatsu …
Read More »2020 Election Petition was about EC Chair’s declaration; not pink sheets – Tsatsu Tsikata
Lawyer for the John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition, Tsatsu Tsikata, has explained that his client’s case was centred on the legality of Electoral Commission’s Chairperson’s declaration of the presidential results. He said the case had little to do with polling station results for which pink sheets would have been …
Read More »Attorney General concedes to Tsatsu’s review application; Court sets March 30 for verdict
The Supreme Court has scheduled March 30, 2021, to deliver its ruling on the review application filed by lawyers for the people of SALL following the apex court’s decision to quash an earlier ruling by the Ho High Court on the election of John Peter Amewu as MP-elect. Tsatsu Tsikata, …
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