{"id":743558,"date":"2019-11-13T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/3-judges-nominated-for-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:54:40","slug":"3-judges-nominated-for-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/3-judges-nominated-for-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Judges Nominated For Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The President, Nana Addo<br \/>\nDankwa Akufo-Addo, has nominated three Court of Appeal judges to replace three<br \/>\nSupreme Court judges, including the Chief Justice, who have either retired<br \/>\nearlier in the year or about to retire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The elevated Appeal Court<br \/>\njudges to the apex court are Justices Mariama Owusu, Lovelace Johnson and<br \/>\nGertrude Torkono.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court judges<br \/>\nwho have already retired are Justice Vida Akoto Bamfo, who retired on February<br \/>\n7, 2019 and Justice Sophia S.O. Adenyira, who also retired on September 1,<br \/>\n2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice, Sophia<br \/>\nAkuffo, who is the third, will retire on December 20, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, all those<br \/>\nwho are retiring from the Supreme Court are women while all those replacing<br \/>\nthem are also women.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sophia Adenyira, the<br \/>\noldest amongst the retirees is 72 years old and was born in 1947, while the<br \/>\nChief Justice and Justice Bamfo are both 70 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice, Justice<br \/>\nSophia Akuffo, was appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Jerry<br \/>\nJohn Rawlings in 1995 and was appointed the Chief Justice in June 2017 by<br \/>\nPresident Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sophia Adenyira<br \/>\nwas appointed to the Supreme Court by former President J.A. Kufuor in 2006,<br \/>\nwhile Justice Vida Akoto Bamfo who rose through to become a Supreme Court judge<br \/>\nas magistrate was also appointed in 2009 by former President Prof. John<br \/>\nAtta-Mills.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the three Supreme Court nominees have been sent to Parliament and were yesterday referred to the Appointments Committee by Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, for onward vetting and approval by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Thomas Fosu Jnr<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has nominated three Court of Appeal judges to replace three Supreme Court judges, including the Chief Justice, who have either retired earlier in the year or about to retire at the end of the year. 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