Why Justice Jones Dotse should be the next Chief Justice After ten years as head of the judiciary in Ghana, Chief justice Georgina Theodora Wood will on June 8, 2017 retire from the position. Even before the jury returns with the verdict on her legacy the focus has shifted to who replaces the first female … Read more
After 47 years of public service, the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, will retire on June 8, 2017, and two names remain in the race to replace her as Ghana’s next Chief Justice. The top contenders are: Justice Victor Jones Mawulom Dotse and Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. The top two contenders lead from 14 Supreme Court … Read more
A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Jones Dotse has set June 22 for judgment in the suit filed by Professor Kwaku Asare challenging the mode of admission into the Ghana Law School. The case, which has seen delays and adjournments to the displeasure of both the Court and the Plaintiff, … Read more
A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, has set the June 22 as the date to deliver its judgment in Professor Kwaku Asare’s suit challenging the mode of admission into the Ghana Law School. The case, which has seen delays and adjournments to the displeasure of both the Court … Read more
Delay in the determination of the suit challenging the way and manner students are admitted into the Ghana school of law is far from over. Today at the Supreme Court, lawyer for the applicant (Professor Kwaku Asare) moved a new motion to amend their original writ that instituted the case in 2015. Lawyer for the … Read more
The Supreme Court has acquitted and discharged a former police officer, Tetteh Samadzi, who sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for robbery. The five panel of justices presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, deferred the reasons for their decision. Constable Tetteh Samadzi was arrested together with one Foster on Friday March 6, 2009, for a robbery … Read more
The Supreme Court has acquitted and discharged a former police officer, Tetteh Samadzi, who sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for robbery. The five panel of justices presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, deferred the reasons for their decision. Constable Tetteh Samadzi was arrested together with one Foster on Friday March 6, 2009, for a robbery … Read more
The Supreme Court has acquitted and discharged a former police officer, Tetteh Samadzi, who sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for robbery. The five panel of justices presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, deferred the reasons for their decision. Constable Tetteh Samadzi was arrested together with one Foster on Friday March 6, 2009, for a robbery … Read more
Justice Jones Dotse, a Supreme Court Judge has charged the Ho Technical University, to create the necessary linkages and interface with craftsmen in various vocations and trades in the Volta Region. He said that was necessary to revitalise vocational and technical training and small scale enterprise promotion in the Region. Justice Dotse said this when … Read more
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Jones Dotse, has expressed concern over some inadequacies in the judicial service which were affecting the effective administration of the judicial service in the country. According to him, the Judicial Service of Ghana has for several years, experienced an inadequacy in court infrastructures such as court houses and … Read more
The Supreme Court has set April 11 to commence hearing of the suit filed against the General Legal Council (GLC) challenging the methods and criteria used in the selection and admission of LLB holders who desire to acquire license to practice law in the country. The seven-member panel of judges presided over by Justice Jones … Read more
A seven-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, has expressed willingness to determine the case instituted against the General Legal Council (GLC) by the US based lawyer, Professor S. Kwaku Asare. Prof. Asare is challenging the constitutionality of the selection methods and criteria used in the admission of LLB holders who desire … Read more
President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians home and abroad of his government’s determination to ignite the can-do spirit in the country, when he met the Ghanaian community in Bamako, on his recent trip to Mali. His invitation to nationals abroad to come back home is premised on the determination to build a resilient economy that … Read more
President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo named 12 more appointees to head ministerial portfolio’s yesterday, bringing the total number of ministers to serve in his government so far announced to 25. It is not known whether the Head of State will make further cabinet appointments besides the naming of their deputies. Civil society organisations and political watchers … Read more
Osafo Boabeng, lawyer for businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, yesterday had a hectic time justifying his failure to respond to pleadings in the case in which Martin Amidu, a former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, is seeking to orally examine Woyome over the GH¢51.2 million judgement debt paid to him by the state The lawyer, … Read more
The Supreme Court will, on February 1, 2017, rule on a preliminary legal objection raised by a former Attorney-General (A-G), Mr Martin Amidu, to stop the hearing of an application challenging his oral examination of the businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The application, filed at the Supreme Court by a lawyer, Mr David Kwadzo Ametefe, is … Read more
One of Ghana’s legal luminaries, Mr Justice Joseph Bawa Akamba, was yesterday honoured by the Judicial Service at a ceremony at the Supreme Court in Accra. Mr Justice Akamba served as a justice of the apex court from November 2012 until his retirement last year. In attendance at the ceremony were the Chief Justice, Mrs … Read more
The Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under President John Evans Atta-Mills, fraudulently paid a financier of the party GHc 51.2 million cedis between 2010 and 2011. A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Jones Dotse said it appeared those who facilitated the payment“entered into an alliance to create, loot and share the resources of this … Read more
The Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under President John Evans Atta-Mills, fraudulently paid a financier of the party GHc 51.2 million cedis between 2010 and 2011. A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Jones Dotse said it appeared those who facilitated the payment“entered into an alliance to create, loot and share the resources of this … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has apologized to the Supreme Court over the absence of any of the Commission members in court on November 9, when the writ to compel the EC to declare results on Special Voting commenced. Mr Amadu Sulley, EC Deputy Chairman in Charge of Operations, who rendered the apology said: “it was … Read more