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The Ministry of Justice & Attorney General's Office of Ghana oversees legal matters that pertain to the State's executive power and drafts any legislation accordingly. The Attorney General is responsible for any civil cases and acts as the defendant on behalf of Ghana. The Ministry of Justice was founded in 1951 as a result of the ...
Much of the judicial work in Ghana takes place at the lower level courts that hear many criminal and civil cases. [13] As the population of Ghana is rapidly expanding to more than 29 million people, [ 14 ] these bodies are often faced with massive backlogs of cases that need to be heard. [ 13 ]
The Chief Justice of Ghana currently in office is the chairperson for the council. The council also includes the three most senior members of the Supreme Court of Ghana ; the Attorney General of Ghana and his or her nominee; and the President, Vice President, and secretary of the Ghana Bar Association .
Gabriel Scott Pwamang is an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.He was nominated in 2015 by president of Ghana John Mahama.Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a private legal practitioner and the managing partner of Pwamang and Associates.
The chief justice is appointed by the president of Ghana in consultation with the Council of State of Ghana and with the approval of the Parliament of Ghana. [9] A person qualified to be the chief justice of Ghana must be of a high moral character and have proven integrity and must have been a lawyer for at least fifteen years to have been eligible for appointment to the Supreme Court in the ...
Admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales in 1957, he returned to Ghana and joined the office of the Registrar-General. Appointed registrar-general in 1959 and judicial secretary in 1961, he became a High Court judge in 1964 and a Supreme Court judge in 1980.
Mercy Yvonne Debrah-Karikari is a Ghanaian diplomat and the first female to be secretary to the cabinet of the government of Ghana. She was appointed to occupy this position by the current president Nana Akufo-Addo. Her appointment took effect on 14 February 2017. [1] [2]
The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. [1] Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government. [2] The Supreme Court of Ghana has the final say on legal matters and can overturn lower court decisions.