According to the Chief Justice, "since the birth of the Cloister Shift System this year, 30,000 cases were filed by Quick Credit Loans (now Bills), and the banking academy intends to book abutting to 55,000 debt-related cases." She declared that the courts would sit on Saturdays and in the afternoons to advice accord with the excess of debt-related cases
Mrs. Torkornoo added categorical that the enactment of the debt accretion cloister would advice abate the accountability on judges, abnormally at the commune courts, as able-bodied as ensure the appropriate commitment of justice
Ghana Supreme Court Pulse Ghana The Small Claim Debt Accretion Courts will be piloted in the Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions
Meanwhile, Director of IT at the Judicial Service, Noble Nutifafa, said the Service has fabricated cloister judgments attainable to the accessible electronically. He said, "Judgments are now uploaded on the africanlii.org belvedere for accessible accessibility by the public." Relatedly, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated two new board to the Supreme Cloister bank afterward their approval by the Judicial Council
The nominees are Professor Richard Frimpong Oppong, a acknowledged bookish and adolescent of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, and Amends Sophia Rosetta Bernasko Essah, a amends of the Cloister of Appeal
According to President Akufo-Addo, "both nominees are to be vetted by Parliament as constitutionally mandated." Prof. Frimpong Oppong, back approved, will accompany Prof. Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu as one of the acknowledged academics on the bank of Ghana's acme court. Amends Bernasko Essah, with her all-encompassing accomplishments as a State Attorney, clandestine acknowledged practitioner, and as a Amends of the High Cloister and Cloister of Appeal, will additionally accompany ample acquaintance to the Supreme Cloister back appointed
Recently, the Chief Justice, Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, wrote a letter to President Akufo-Addo, allurement him to appoint bristles board to the Supreme Court. According to the Chief Justice, "the Supreme Cloister needs added board to handle the cutting cardinal of cases currently afore it." Among the board recommended is Amends Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe, the accepted adjudicator authoritative over the Ato Forson ambulance accretion trial. The four added board are Amends Cyra Pamela Koranteng, Amends Edward Amoako Asante, Amends Eric Kyei Baffour, and Amends Angelina Mensah Homiah
However, the Chief Justice's action has been broadly accursed by assorted groups and individuals, including the action National Democratic Congress (NDC), with some calling for the abandonment of the Chief Justice
The latest nominations by the President did not accommodate the names appropriate by the Chief Justice, abrogation abounding to admiration if the nominations accept been alone by the President or if they are still awaiting approval and consideration
Back the two new nominees are accustomed by Parliament, the accepted cardinal of justices at the Supreme Cloister will access to 17