{"id":1268854,"date":"2022-12-22T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/akufo-addo-swears-in-15-new-court-of-appeal-judges\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:09:36","slug":"akufo-addo-swears-in-15-new-court-of-appeal-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/akufo-addo-swears-in-15-new-court-of-appeal-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo swears in 15 new Court of Appeal Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663430315_61_image-224-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has sworn in 15 new Court of Appeal Judges at a ceremony at the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<p> President Akufo-Addo charged the newly sworn-in Appeal Court Judges to apply the laws without fear or favour.<\/p>\n<p>He also cautioned them against citing cases handled by the lower courts as laws.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The President also pledged government\u2019s continuous support to the judiciary. <\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Inside of Appeals Court Judges\u2019 residential complex inaugurated by Akufo-Addo [Photos]<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Akufo-Addo commissions modern residential complex for judges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said government has begun constructing 120 Court complexes with accompanying accommodation facilities for judges across the country as part of efforts to bring justice to the doorstep of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe (Mrs.) who spoke on behalf of her colleagues thanked the President for the honour done to them and pledged to undertake their tasks diligently.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 Appeal Court judges are Justice Alex Owusu-Ofori, Justice Emmanuel Ankamah, Justice Jerome Noble-Nkrumah, Justice Gifty Agyei Addo (Mrs.), Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe (Mrs.) and Justice Samuel Obeng-Diawuo. <\/p>\n<p>The rest are Justice Hafisata Amaleboba (Mrs.), Justice Kweku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo, Justice Jennifer Abena Dadzie, Justice Charles Edward Ekow Baiden, Justice Stephen Oppong, Patrick Kwamina Baiden, Christopher Archer, Professor (Mrs.) Olivia Anku-Tsede and Dr Ernest Owusu-Dapaah.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"J7kIkQK36u0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmas: Some auto mechanical at Ridge set aside between GHC200 - GHC1000 for holidays (21-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7kIkQK36u0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has sworn in 15 new Court of Appeal Judges at a ceremony at the Jubilee House. President Akufo-Addo charged the newly sworn-in Appeal Court Judges to apply the laws without fear or favour. He also cautioned them against citing cases handled by the lower courts as laws. The President also pledged government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268854","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=1268854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}