The Supreme Court has dismissed an injunction application filed by Old Tafo MP Vincent Assafuah seeking to prevent the petition to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo from proceeding.
The motion, filed by Assafuah's lawyer, Godfred Dame, aimed to restrain the President from forwarding the petition to the Council of State, but was withdrawn before being formally adjudicated.
This decision follows a previous unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court, which rejected an objection raised by Godfred Dame against Acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie presiding over the case.
Dame had argued that Justice Baffoe-Bonnie stood to be personally affected by the outcome of the petition, as he was a senior judge who could be considered for the permanent Chief Justice position should Torkornoo be removed.
