Supreme Court nominee, Justice Philip Bright Mensah, has dismissed suggestions to increase the retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 years.
Speaking during his vetting before Parliament's Appointments Committee on Tuesday, June 17, he emphasised that such an extension would not be beneficial to judges, especially considering the demanding nature of their work.
According to him, while some countries allow judges to serve for life, their Supreme Courts handle fewer cases compared to Ghana's, making the workload here significantly heavier. "I will never advocate that the age of our judges, Supreme Court judges for that matter, be raised from 70 to 75.
In other jurisdictions where they retire judges for life, so maybe they will run to the age of about 80 plus, they, as you are all aware, the cases that go to their Supreme Court are a few. "In our jurisdiction, the Supreme Court is always inundated with so many cases, and unless you want to be a lazy judge, if you want to do the work and do it efficiently, you need to work very hard.
