Legal Vacation: Oppong Nkrumah sues Chief Justice over ‘selective justice’

The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has filed a suit at the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of administrative warrants issued by the Chief Justice directing selected High Court judges to sit and conduct criminal trials during the legal vacation.“A declaration that the action of the Honourable Chief Justice to promote and facilitate the hearing of “special criminal cases” in the legal vacation to the total neglect of other criminal cases is tantamount to selective justice which contravenes the letter and spirit of Article 17(1) of the Constitution 1992 and therefore unconstitutional, null and void.”The MP is therefore asking the Supreme Court to determine whether the Chief Justice’s decision to issue the warrants directing selected High Court judges to hear criminal cases during the legal vacation is constitutionally valid.