Justice Anin-Yeboah
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
has appointed Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah as the new Chief Justice and has accordingly
forwarded his name to Parliament for vetting and approval.
The First Deputy Speaker, Joseph
Osei-Owusu, who made the announcement in Parliament yesterday, has, therefore,
referred the nominee to the Appointments Committee of Parliament for vetting
and subsequent approval by the House.
The President appealed to the
Speaker to fast-track the vetting and approval of the new
Chief Justice-designate, since the current Chief Justice, Justice Sophia A.B. Akuffo,
would be retiring on December 20, this year.
Parliament is also expected to rise
for the Christmas holidays on December 20.
The Chief Justice-designate was
appointed to the Supreme Court in 2008 by former President J.A. Kufuor after
serving as a High Court judge from 2002 to 2003 and as an Appeal Court judge
from 2003 to 2008.
In May 2017, Anin-Yeboah was
formally appointed Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee at the 67th FIFA
Congress in Bahrain.
He again served as the Chairman of
the Appeal Committee of the Ghana Football Association from 2004 to 2008.
Apart from being a justice of the Supreme
Court, Justice Anin-Yeboah is also a part-time lecturer in Civil Procedure and
the Ghana Legal System at the Ghana School of Law.
Anin-Yeboah’s legal experience
includes writing judgments on constitutional matters, civil and criminal cases
and also providing opinions on legal matters in the West African nation.
Justice Anin-Yeboah’s name is also
closely associated with football. In May 2017, he was appointed the Chairman of
the Disciplinary Committee of the Federation of International Football
Associations (FIFA).
In September 2019, he was named
onto the CAF/FIFA Reform Implementation Taskforce team for African football. He
was appointed along with five others to carry out reforms within African
football.
He also served as the Chairman of the Appeal’s Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) from 2004 to 2008.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr
