The Supreme Court will today deliver a judgment on the true and proper interpretation of Article 97(1) (g) and (h), the constitutional provision that the Speaker of Parliament relied upon to declare four seats in Parliament vacant. The provisions read as follows: A member of Parliament shall vacate his seat in Parliament—(g) if he leaves […]
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The Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Kenneth Kwabena Agyei Kuranchie has sued the Attorney General (AG) and Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) over the constitutionality of the latter. He wants the Supreme Court to declare the OSP as unconstitutional. Among other things, Mr Kuranchie in his writ to the Supreme Court sighted by
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Tuffour v. Attorney-General [1980] GLR 637-667 [1] With the coming into force of the 1979 Constitution, the incumbent Chief Justice, Mr Justice Fred Kwasi Apaloo, was purported to be nominated as Chief Justice by the President of the Republic of Ghana in consultation with the Judicial Council. Parliament purported to vet the said Mr Apaloo
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