Legal luminary and former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has cast serious doubts over the prospects of success in any potential legal action involving Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 monitored by GhanaWeb, Mr Ansa-Asare questioned the legal merit and strategy behind any such case, particularly if it seeks to challenge Ghana's constitutional process for the removal of a Chief Justice as outlined under Article 146. "She is the Chief Justice, she has to respect the Article 146 CJ removal process.
If she herself is disrespecting the process, how does she expect the ECOWAS Community Court to intervene?" he queried.
According to him, the ECOWAS Court is not an avenue to circumvent national laws and constitutional provisions, but rather a forum for addressing clear and justiciable violations of human rights. "They want to find out whether there are any internal mechanisms in Ghana, are there justiciable remedies?
