Justice Anin-Yeboah<\/strong><\/p>\nJUSTICE KWASI Anin-Yeboah,
\nPresident Akufo-Addo\u2019s nominee, emerged the overwhelming favourite of the bar
\nand the bench during yesterday\u2019s vetting in Parliament to succeed the outgone
\nChief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo.<\/p>\n
The Chief Justice-nominee was subjected
\nto intense grilling by the Appointments Committee, as the Minority members on
\nthe committee sought to question his independence on strong feelings that he was
\ntied to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n
However, the nominee opined that
\nbecause of his high integrity at the bar and on the bench, he was proposed for
\nthe position by the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) when it was about to become
\nvacant.<\/p>\n
According to him, when the bar
\nproposed him to the Presidency, he was compelled to apply for the vacant
\nposition since no other member on the bench at the Supreme Court applied, which
\nmade him the unanimous and the most popular choice for the position.<\/p>\n
The nominee appears to have high
\nrespect amongst the bar and the bench as many legal luminaries trooped to his
\nvetting place to witness the proceedings.<\/p>\n
The Chief Justice-nominee told the
\nAppointments Committee that his passion as a Chief Justice would be to make
\nGhanaians have easy access to quality and affordable justice.<\/p>\n
More Courts<\/strong><\/p>\nHe said he was so passionate about
\nbuilding courts in every corner of the country so that Ghanaians, irrespective
\nof where they lived, could easily access justice.<\/p>\n
He has, therefore, appealed to all metropolitan,
\nmunicipal and district assemblies as well as Members of Parliament to help the
\nJudiciary in that direction by helping to build courts with good facilities in
\ntheir areas of jurisdictions so that the Judicial Service will staff those
\ncourts to dispense justice to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
The Chief Justice-nominee, who was
\ngrilled for about five and a half hours, was expected to be approved by Parliament
\nby close of yesterday.<\/p>\n
He said the Judiciary had recently
\nrecruited some magistrates and circuit judges in an attempt to facilitate easy
\naccess of justice by many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
He called for the retention of 50
\nper cent of MMDAs internally generated funds so it could be used to pay for the
\nallowances of judicial staff anytime they threatened to go on strike. <\/p>\n
He also appealed to the government
\nto ensure that judges and judicial staff were well motivated so that justice
\ndelivery would be smooth.<\/p>\n
Law School Brouhaha<\/strong><\/p>\nOn legal education in the country,
\nthe Chief Justice-designate, who is also a lecturer at the Ghana School of Law,
\nadmitted that the standards of legal education were falling and, therefore,
\nthere was the need for measures to be put in place to raise the standards and
\ntrain internationally recognized lawyers in the country.<\/p>\n
He said the standards of students being
\nchurned out from the law faculties of the universities were very horrible and would,
\ntherefore, need further checks and balances for them to be admitted into the
\nGhana School of Law.<\/p>\n
Minority Concerns<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Minority members on the
\ncommittee also wanted to know why in the Supreme Court decision of the 2012
\nelection petition, his ruling in the dissenting minority was for the Electoral
\nCommission (EC) to completely conduct new presidential elections.<\/p>\n
He said that his ruling had been
\nmisconstrued because out of the 26,000 polling stations, 11,000 of them had
\nelection irregularities and once 15,000 polling stations had been authenticated
\nlegally, there was no way his ruling would have prescribed elections in all the
\n26,000 polling stations.<\/p>\n
According to him, from those irregularities,
\nnone of the presidential candidates could have earned 50 per cent plus one vote
\nto be declared the winner and so he thought that wholesale elections in all the
\n11,000 affected polling stations were appropriate.<\/p>\n
When he was asked whether he had any legal philosophy, he said his legal philosophy was the law and the Constitution of the Republic. <\/p>\n
By Thomas Fosu Jnr <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice Anin-Yeboah JUSTICE KWASI Anin-Yeboah, President Akufo-Addo\u2019s nominee, emerged the overwhelming favourite of the bar and the bench during yesterday\u2019s vetting in Parliament to succeed the outgone Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo. The Chief Justice-nominee was subjected to intense grilling by the Appointments Committee, as the Minority members on the committee sought to question his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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