SC dismisses Godfred Dame's objection against Baffoe-Bonnie presiding over Torkornoo case

The Supreme Court has dismissed an objection raised by erstwhile Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, against Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, presiding implicit a high-profile law case.

The objection was portion of a ineligible situation surrounding the suspension of Chief Justice, Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, by President John Dramani Mahama.

The Acting Chief Justice, Baffoe-Bonnie, is presiding implicit the tribunal lawsuit of suspended CJ Torkornoo.

Lawyer for the Plaintiff, Godfred Dame, raised an objection to the Acting CJ presiding connected the grounds that helium is straight affected by the result of the lawsuit and, therefore, cannot preside.

However, Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem Sai, argued that determination is simply a misconception of idiosyncratic payment to the Acting CJ but that is not so.

The sheet has consequently recused itself to deliberate and springiness its ruling.

The lawsuit filed by Vincent Assafuah arsenic a acrophobic citizen, questions the legality of President Mahama’s determination to suspend Chief Justice Torkornoo without archetypal notifying her and obtaining her input earlier consulting the Council of State.

The MP seeks a declaration that the president’s actions were procedurally flawed and inconsistent with law safeguards designed to support the independency of the judiciary.

President John Dramani Mahama's determination to suspend Justice Torkornoo was based connected his determination that 3 abstracted petitions for her removal established a prima facie case, justifying further investigation.

As per the law enactment of succession wrong the judiciary, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, the astir elder subordinate of the Supreme Court, has assumed the relation of Acting Chief Justice upon her suspension.

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