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Oppong Nkrumah heads back to Supreme Court over legal vacation ruling
The development marks the latest stage in Mr Oppong Nkrumah’s legal challenge to the Chief Justice’s administrative warrants authorising selected High Court judges to conduct criminal proceedings during the annual legal vacation, which runs from August 1 to September 30.
Challenge to vacation trials Mr Oppong Nkrumah invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court earlier this month, challenging the decision by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie to permit selected judges to sit during the vacation to hear criminal cases.
Ofoase-Ayirebi Member of Parliament Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is seeking a review of the decision by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang dismissing his application to halt the conduct of criminal trials by selected High Court judges during the legal vacation.
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