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The 1954 Gold Coast constitution provided for the chief justice to be appointed on the advice of the prime minister while other judges and judicial officers were appointed on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission. [4] Under the 1957 Ghana constitution, on the attainment of independence, the chief justice and all superior justices were ...
Politics of Ghana. The Judiciary of Ghana comprises the Superior Courts of Judicature, established under the 1992 Constitution, and the Inferior Courts, established by Parliament. The hierarchy of courts derives largely from British juridical forms. The courts have jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters.
Samuel Azu Crabbe was born at James Town, a suburb of Accra, the capital of Ghana. [2] He received his secondary education at Accra Academy where he was head boy in 1939, and thereafter studied at Achimota College. [3] He then proceeded to University College London, where he graduated with a law degree in 1946.
The Ministry of Justice was created in 1951 after the Lidbury Commission was established to come up with recommendations upon reviewing the Gold Coast Civil Service. [2] The commission established that the establishment of ministries by the then newly established Gold Coast government, headed by Kwame Nkrumah (then Prime Minister and Head of Government Business), was to be modelled under the ...
t. e. The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. [1] Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government. [2] The Supreme Court of Ghana has the final say on legal matters and can overturn lower court decisions.
Appeal Court judge. 1983. Retired in 1983. 25. 1991. Appointed Chairman of the Law Reform Commission following his retirement as a Supreme Court judge, was called out of retirement in 1991 to serve as Chief Justice of Ghana. Jerry Rawlings. 21 February 1995. Chief of Justice 1991–1995.
Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo (born on 11 September 1962) is the current Chief Justice of the republic of Ghana. She was nominated to the Supreme Court in November 2019 and received parliamentary approval in December 2019. [1] She was sworn in on 17 December 2019. [2] She was nominated to the office of Chief Justice in April ...
In 1994, he joined the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as a Legal Officer. He joined the Judicial Service of Ghana in 1996 where he began working as Magistrate until 2002 when he became a Circuit Court judge. He became a justice of the High Court in 2006 adjudicating at the Fast Track (Automated) High Court in ...