Claims Chief Justice is selectively assigning cases during judicial vacation are false – Prof Kwaku Asare

The two legal teams, led by former Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame and lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea, argued that commencing the trials during the vacation departs from long-standing judicial practice and informed the Chief Justice that they would not participate in proceedings scheduled during the vacation.

Read Also: Lawyers for Hanan Wahab, Adu-Boahene protest vacation trials in petition to Chief Justice In a Facebook post on Thursday, August 6, Prof Asare explained that the designation of judges to sit during the judicial vacation is a long-established practice provided for under the rules governing the courts and does not amount to the Chief Justice handpicking cases for hearing." He argued that justice, as an essential public service, should not be effectively suspended for two months each year because of the judicial vacation.