The Attorney-General (A-G) has succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court to strike out the names of the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelovo, and the Acting Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, from a suit challenging President Akufo-Addo’s directive for Domelovo to proceed on his accumulated annual leave.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has filed an application at the Supreme Court for a review of the apex court’s judgment for excluding birth certificates, older voter ID as requirement in the ongoing voters registration exercise.
The Supreme will on Tuesday July 14, 2020 sit on all cases listed for the day.
The Supreme Court has temporarily suspended all its sittings over cases that are before them. This follows the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Judicial Service where some Judges and staff have allegedly tested positive and have mandatorily been made to self-isolate.
A former Member of Parliament for Akwatia, Baba Jamal, says the ruling by the Supreme over the exclusion of the old voters’ ID card as proof of Ghanaian citizen to qualify in the upcoming compilation of a new voters register got the legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) confused.
A panel of seven-member Supreme Court Judges has in a unanimous decision rejected the old voters’ identification card as proof of Ghanaian citizen to qualify an eligible voter to register in the upcoming voters registration exercise to be conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for the 2020 general polls.
The Parliament of Ghana has by majority votes of 106 against 92 adopted the controversial Constitutional Instrument (CI) 126 that is seeking to empower the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter’s register for the conduct of the 2020 general elections.
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana says it is unable to comply with the Supreme Court’s directive to clean the existing voters album by clearing all names of persons that used the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Card as proof of identify as Ghanaians to register because of challenges in identifying such names.
A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court has directed the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to furnish it with the legal basis why it omitted the inclusion of the existing voters ID card from the list of national IDs acceptable for the upcoming compilation of a new voters register.
The Supreme Court of the land has told businessman and financier of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to honour his indebtedness to the state if he has money and go for his properties which the country is seeking leave of the court to acquire. Woyome had appeared before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 2, […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, May 22, 2020, swore into office Justice Tanko Amadu. At the swearing-in ceremony, President Akufo-Addo stated that this is the first time in the nation’s history that a Muslim has been appointed to the highest court of the land, adding that “I am delighted […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 22nd May 2020, swore into office, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation’s presidency. In doing so, President Akufo-Addo noted that he had met the stringent requirements of Article 128 clause (4) of the Constitution, and has demonstrated the […]
