{"id":1067342,"date":"2022-04-26T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/26\/supreme-court-dismisses-review-application-on-deputy-speakers-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:33:41","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-review-application-on-deputy-speakers-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/26\/supreme-court-dismisses-review-application-on-deputy-speakers-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Dismisses Review Application On Deputy Speakers | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision has dismissed a case filed by a private legal practitioner, Justice Abdulai.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Abdulai prayed the court to review its March 9 judgment which indicated that\u00a0a Deputy Speaker even when presiding over parliamentary proceedings reserves the right to vote and can be counted as part of a quorum for decision making.<\/p>\n<p>The Court presiding over by Justice Jones Dotse ruled that the Deputy Speaker of Parliament&#8217;s participation in voting was constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe application is accordingly dismissed,\u201d Justice Dotse said.<\/p>\n<p>The review case was heard by Justices Dotse, Nene Amegatcher, Prof Ashie Kotey, Lovelace Johnson, Mariama Owusu, Celemenfe Honyenuga, Gertrude Torkonoo, Prof. Mensah Bonsu and Emmanuel Kulendi<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Peacefmonline.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision has dismissed a case filed by a private legal practitioner, Justice Abdulai. Justice Abdulai prayed the court to review its March 9 judgment which indicated that\u00a0a Deputy Speaker even when presiding over parliamentary proceedings reserves the right to vote and can be counted as part of a quorum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9137,64,651,1796,1753,1368,6915,7551],"class_list":["post-1067342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-application","tag-court","tag-deputy","tag-dismisses","tag-politics","tag-review","tag-speakers","tag-supreme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}