The Attorney-General has filed a motion at the High Court's Human Rights Division seeking to strike out suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo's application for judicial review.
The AG's office is citing fundamental legal defects in the filing.
Last week, the suspended Chief Justice instructed her lawyers to file an application for judicial review at the High Court, seeking to declare the ongoing proceedings for her removal from office as unlawful and void.
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, June 25, Justice Torkornoo described the process currently being undertaken by the committee set up under Article 146 of the Constitution as "a total absence of compliance with all known rules of fair hearing." "It is this total absence of compliance with all known rules of fair hearing that has caused my lawyers to file applications for judicial review in the High Court to declare all the proceedings void," she stated.
