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JOY NEWS can confirm that President Akuffo Addo has now firmly settled on Justice Sophia Akuffo as Ghana\u2019s next Chief Justice following a cabinet meeting Thursday night.<\/p>\n
After frank discussions with his cabinet last night at which other names such as Justices Jones Dotse and Anim Yeboah came up, the President made a strong case for Madam Sophia Akuffo.<\/p>\n
It is now a done deal and it is just a matter of time before the President outdoors Sophia Akuffo as his choice for Chief Justice.<\/p>\n
JOY NEWS is also learning that the President will at midday Friday make a major announcement.<\/p>\n
She will be the fourth most powerful leader in Ghana following after the President, the Vice-President and Speaker of Parliament.<\/p>\n
For the second consecutive time, Ghana’s Chief Justice is a woman, a historic feat after the appointment of Justice Georgina Wood in 2007 made her Ghana’s first female Chief Justice.<\/p>\n
Justice Sophia Akuffo is the second most senior judge at the Supreme Court pipped to the senior most by Justice William Atuguba who retires next year.<\/p>\n
Sophia A.B. Akuffo has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana for the past two decades.<\/p>\n
Sophia Akuffo trained as a lawyer under Nana Akufo-Addo and had her Masters in Law (LLM) from the Havard University in the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n
She has been a member of the Governing Committee of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute and the Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force.<\/p>\n
In January 2006 she was elected one of the first judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights initially elected for two years, she was subsequently re-elected until 2014. She rose to become a Vice-President and later President of the African Court.<\/p>\n
She has written The Application of Information & Communication Technology in the Judicial Process \u2013 the Ghanaian Experience, a presentation to the African Judicial Network Ghana (2002).<\/p>\n
One of her famous cases is when she presided over the Montie 3 in 2016.\u00a0 She remarked while reading her judgement ‘even the president cannot control judges’.<\/p>\n
Current Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood is leaving office in June after 10 years service as the head of the third arm of government, the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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