Justice Gertrude Torkornoo was removed from her role as Chief Justice in 2025
The Supreme Court has reportedly adjourned four cases challenging the removal of the former Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, indefinitely.
According to a report by graphic.com.gh, the cases were indefinitely adjourned due to the failure of the parties in the suits to file their memoranda of issues, which are required to guide the hearing of the matters.
The adjournment, which was announced during court proceedings on January 27, 2026, was to allow the parties to file the needed documents.
The four cases adjourned were filed by Justice Torkornoo herself, the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah; a private citizen, Theodore Kofi Attah-Quartey; and the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems (CENCES).
The apex court of the land, however, threw out one of the cases challenging the constitutionality of Justice Torkornoo’s removal.
The said case, which was filed by one Ebenezer Osei-Owusu, was struck out for failure to comply with the rules.
The plaintiff reportedly failed to file his statement of case within the time required by the rules of the court.
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About Chief Justice Torkornoo’s removal:
President John Dramani Mahama, in accordance with Article 146(9) of the 1992 Constitution, removed Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office on September 1, 2025.
The decision followed the receipt of the report of the Committee of Inquiry established under Article 146(6) of the Constitution to investigate a petition submitted by a Ghanaian citizen, Daniel Ofori, calling for the removal of the Chief Justice.
The letter informing Justice Torkornoo of her removal, which The Law Platform shared on social media on September 3, 2025, quoted portions of the report by the five-member committee set up by President John Dramani Mahama under the 1992 Constitution.
The committee, led by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, recommended that Justice Torkornoo should be removed.
Among the reasons the committee found her guilty were avoidable and reckless dissipation of public funds in her travel with her husband to Tanzania on one occasion, and with her daughter to the United States of America on another occasion.
The committee also found her guilty of unjustifiably breaching “the provisions in Article 296(a) and (b) of the 1992 Constitution” in transferring a judge.
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