Legal expert Kwame Boafo Akuffo has raised serious concerns about the Supreme Court's handling of the recent Application for Stay of Execution in the case of Speaker declaring four seats vacant in , describing the Court's approach as confusing and procedurally flawed.
According to Akuffo, the Court has a duty to ensure consistency in the application of legal principles, a standard it failed to meet in this instance. "The Supreme Court owes the public a duty to ensure consistent application of the principles of law," Akuffo stated.
He emphasized that inconsistency in legal rulings undermines the coherence of the law, creating a tangle of special rules that deviate from established legal norms.
Akuffo singled out several critical issues with the Court's decision regarding Alex Markin's application. "The first problem is the nature of the application itself," he explained. "A party cannot seek an Application for Stay of Execution in respect of a matter which is not a judgment or a court order." In this case, the Speaker's decision to declare the parliamentary seats vacant does not qualify as such an order, making the request for a stay legally baseless. "It is absurd to seek a Stay of Execution in a case in which the Court has not made any orders.