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Why ORAL cases? – Former Deputy AG quizzes over seeming selectivity in legal vacation hearings
He argued that lawyers and judges have an established practice of suspending substantive hearings during the legal vacation, except in circumstances where there are compelling reasons to proceed.
Former Deputy Attorney General Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has questioned the basis for selecting only Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) cases for substantive hearings during the legal vacation.
Mr Tuah-Yeboah therefore argued that if substantive hearings are to be introduced during the legal vacation, the practice should be applied consistently across the judiciary rather than selectively.
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