Feature by Ishmael Batoma: The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has come under heavy scrutiny following the official release of its 2025 mid-year conference resolution demanding that President John Dramani Mahama revoke the suspension of the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo.
The Bar argues that the suspension of the Chief Justice by the president was unconstitutional, citing Article 296(c) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
It said that the Chief Justice's suspension is unconstitutional because no published regulation governs the president's discretion under Article 296(c).
Other legal scholars have argued that the GBA's declaration of the suspension as unconstitutional, based on what Article 296(C) says, is flawed.
