Speaking at the end of the acknowledged year affair organized by the Greater Accra Bar on July 31, 2024, Justice Torkornoo dispelled all the apropos of attorneys and agents of the Administrative Account of any application by herself or the Rules of Cloister Committee chaired by her to atom the acknowledged vacation.
She explained that the vacation was important because attorneys and agents of the administrative account charge to rest, thelawplatform.online reports.
The Chief Justice added explained that physiological considerations affirm the accoutrement accouterment for acknowledged vacation in the action rules.
She likened the acknowledged vacation to the vacation of school, which is actual important because acceptance charge to blow their bodies and minds and re-invigorate for added work.
The affirmation by the Chief Justice comes afterward calls by some notable Ghanaians, including Justice Enyonam Adinyira, a High Cloister judge, for the vacation to be scrapped in the High Court, Cloister of Appeal, and Supreme Cloister rules.
Justice Adinyira arguable that lawyers, like judges, may accept to go on leave for blow rather than a absolute blow aeon provided by the rules.
About the acknowledged vacation:
Order 79 Aphorism 4 of C.I. 47, High Cloister Civil Action Rules, which stipulates the timelines for acknowledged vacation and has alliteration by way of diction in Aphorism 61 of C.I. 19, Cloister of Appeal Rules, and Aphorism 82 of C.I. 16, Supreme Cloister Rules, reads as follows:
Rule 4-Vacations
Subject to aphorism 1 (1) the afterward periods shall be empiric in the High Cloister as vacations:
(a) the aeon basic on the Tuesday anon afterward Easter Monday in anniversary year and catastrophe on the Friday anon following;
(b) the aeon basic on 1st August in anniversary year and catastrophe on 30th September in the year; and
(c) the aeon basic on 23rd December in anniversary year and catastrophe on 6th January in the abutting year.
The Chief Justice, however, has admiral beneath the rules to baptize a cloister to sit admitting the accoutrement acute the ascertainment of vacations.
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