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Samuel Atta Akyea, lead Counsel for former Signals Bureau Director-General Kwadwo Adu Boahene, has described as “strange” the Accra High Court’s decision to dismiss his request for an adjournment pending the Supreme Court’s determination of a review application filed by Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.
Lead counsel for former Signals Bureau Director-General Kwadwo Adu Boahene, Samuel Atta Akyea, has described as unfortunate the Accra High Court’s decision to continue with his client’s trial despite a fresh application before the Supreme Court seeking to restrain the proceedings.
Lawyer for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, Samuel Atta Akyea, has finally appeared in court as defence counsel in the ongoing trial after previously raising concerns about the decision to continue the case during the legal vacation.
The Accra High Court has dismissed a request by former Signals Bureau Director-General Kwadwo Adu Boahene for an adjournment of his trial pending the Supreme Court’s determination of a review application filed by Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah over the continuation of selected criminal cases during the legal vacation.
Ofoase-Ayirebi Member of Parliament and lawyer, 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.
The criminal case involving Solomon Asamoah and Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi, former Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman, respectively, of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund over the abandoned Ghana Sky Train project has taken a new turn. Mr Asamoah’s lawyers are now challenging key decisions of the trial court at the Supreme Court. The development was disclosed […]
The Supreme Court ruling delivered today by His Lordship Gabriel Pwamang JSC, sitting as a Single Justice in the injunction application against the Chief Justice’s vacation court warrants, offers a fascinating window into public law jurisprudence. The court’s analysis correctly highlights the importance of public interest, statutory discretion, and the constitutional mandate under Article 19(1) for expeditious trial within a reasonable time.
The Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has accused Deputy Attorney General Srem Sai of misinforming the public over a recent court ruling concerning his application.
Deputy Attorney General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, has accused Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and his lawyers of relying on what he describes as a “deliberate falsehood” in their legal challenge to the Chief Justice’s directive for selected cases to be heard during the legal vacation.
Ofoase-Ayirebi Member of Parliament Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has hinted at seeking a review of the Supreme Court’s decision dismissing his application to halt selected criminal trials during the legal vacation. Justice Gabriel Pwamang, sitting as a single judge of the Supreme Court, dismissed Mr Oppong Nkrumah’s interlocutory injunction application on Friday, August 21.
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by Ofoase-Ayirebi Member of Parliament Kojo Oppong Nkrumah seeking to halt selected criminal trials during the ongoing legal vacation. Justice Gabriel Pwamang, sitting as a single judge of the Supreme Court, dismissed the interlocutory injunction application on Friday, August 21, 2026.
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its ruling today, Friday, August 21, on a suit challenging the constitutionality of administrative warrants issued by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie directing selected High Court judges to continue sitting during the legal vacation.
Lawyer for the Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Frank Davies, has questioned the decision to adjourn Chairman Wontumi’s bail application pending appeal to October 15. Mr Davies argued that the application, being an urgent matter involving bail, could have been heard during the legal vacation in August or September rather than being pushed to October. He said the purpose of vacation courts was to deal with urgent and critical applications, including bail matters.
Lawyer for Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Frank Davies, has maintained that the Attorney General should not be representing Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie in a suit challenging administrative warrants directing selected High Court judges to sit during the legal vacation. Mr Davies argues that because the Chief Justice has been named substantively as a defendant, he should have separate legal representation. Speaking after Thursday’s proceedings at the Supreme Court, he said that allo
The Supreme Court has adjourned to Friday, August 21, to rule on a suit challenging the constitutionality of administrative warrants issued by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie directing selected High Court judges to sit during the legal vacation. The suit, filed by former Education Minister and Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, challenges the decision to continue hearing selected criminal cases during the vacation.
Lawyer for former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has pushed back against comments by Deputy Attorney-General Justice Srem-Sai, insisting that the Constitution guarantees the speedy trial of all cases and not only selected ones.
The trial of former National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Chief Executive Officer, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, and seven others has been adjourned to August 27, 2026, pending the determination of an injunction application challenging the directive for selected cases to be heard during the legal vacation.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, lead counsel for former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer Hanan Abdul-Hamid, says his client cannot be compelled to proceed with his trial during the legal vacation without legal representation, warning that such a move would set a dangerous precedent.
Former Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame says he will not participate in proceedings scheduled during the legal vacation in the case involving former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer Hanan Abdul-Hamid, insisting that the decision to hear the matter during the court's vacation period goes against established legal practice.
Former Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has criticised the decision to hear proceedings involving former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer Hanan Abdul-Hamid during the legal vacation, arguing that there is no urgency to justify the court's action.
The Accra High Court has suspended proceedings in the criminal trial of former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer, Hanan Abdul-Wahab, and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni, pending the determination of an injunction application before the Supreme Court challenging the conduct of trials during the legal vacation. The court, presided over by Justice Francis Apangabuno Achibonga, a Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court judge, adjourned the case
The Accra High Court has adjourned the trial of former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng, to August 25, pending the determination of an injunction application before the Supreme Court. The application, which seeks to restrain the High Court from hearing the case during the legal vacation, is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 20, 2026.
The Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, has questioned the decision to proceed with a criminal trial during the legal vacation, arguing that the issue is not the composition of the courts but the unusual decision to hear a case when such proceedings are generally not undertaken.
The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, says the dispute between some lawyers and the Chief Justice over hearings during the legal vacation could have been resolved through negotiation rather than formal petitions.
International corporate lawyer and entrepreneur Victoria Bright has rejected claims that Chief Justice warrants for judges to sit during the legal vacation were deliberately designed to target a small number of high-profile or politically sensitive criminal cases.
Professor Kwaku Asare has challenged the constitutional basis of a lawsuit filed by former Education Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah over the Chief Justice’s decision to allow selected criminal trials to continue during the legal vacation. Prof Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, questioned whether the Chief Justice’s directive to selected judges to sit during the vacation amounts to a violation of constitutional rights, as alleged by Mr Oppong Nkrumah. Mr Oppong Nkrumah has invoked the origina
OGO has sighted Writ No. J1/29/2026, issued by his nephew, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah invoking the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over the Chief Justice’s (CJ) decision to have selected criminal trials continue during the legal vacation. My nephew seeks, in substance, the following five reliefs: 1. THE WARRANTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL A declaration that the CJ’s warrants directing some judges to sit and conduct selected criminal trials during the legal vacation are inconsistent with Article
Ofoase-Ayirebi MP, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, challenging directives from the Chief Justice that require selected judges to sit during the legal vacation to hear designated criminal cases.
The ongoing debate over the hearing of cases during the legal vacation may benefit from a return to the text of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I. 47), particularly Order 79.
Former Deputy Attorney General has questioned the basis of the Deputy Attorney General’s claim that Samuel Atta Akyea, lead counsel for former National Signals Bureau Director Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng had not formally written to the court to explain his inability to appear during the legal vacation.
Former Deputy Attorney General Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has backed the New Patriotic Party’s concerns over what it describes as “selective justice” in the decision to continue selected criminal cases during the legal vacation.
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.
Former Deputy Attorney General Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has explained that judges can hear substantive cases during legal vacation, but said lawyers involved in such cases must first be consulted and have no objection to the arrangement.
Former Attorney General and former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ayikoi Otoo, has criticised the decision to compel lawyers to appear in court during the legal vacation, describing the practice as unfair and something that should only happen in exceptional circumstances.
A copy of the Chief Justice's warrant authorising judges to sit during the 2026 legal vacation appears to contradict claims by lead counsel Samuel Atta Akyea that vacation judges were specifically directed to handle only particular cases.
President of the Young Lawyers Forum of the Ghana Bar Association, Noah Ephraem Adamtey Tetteh, has challenged the position that vacation courts do not conduct trials.
Remarks by His Lordship the Chief Justice at the congress of the Senior Staff Association of the Judicial Service of Ghana must bring firm clarity to one issue in the ongoing, rather needless, legal vacation debate. That aspect largely confirms the administrative realities outlined in Parts 2 and 3 of this series. To active practitioners, the CJ’s comments reinforce a fundamental procedural truth: the authority to grant an adjournment rests exclusively within the judicial discretion of the pres
The Ghana Bar Association's official position on the observance of the legal vacation by the superior courts does not merely state a preference; it articulates black-letter law and long-standing convention. Stripped of the specific ORAL cases, the Bar’s intervention lays bare the fundamental principles that govern courtroom practice during recess - principles that no active litigation lawyer will dispute.
To truly understand the friction surrounding legal vacations, one must look closely at their historical design. Beyond the common perception, the legal vacation was originally conceived primarily as a necessary rest period for the bench - a formal pause allowing judges to clear backlogs, conduct research, and reset. Over generations, however, the bar naturally appropriated this period, aligning private practice leaves and firm schedules with the statutory lull in regular court sittings.
Lawyer for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene has criticised the decision to continue his client’s trial during the legal vacation, describing it as a departure from established judicial practice.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie of exhibiting a “partisan disposition” and facilitating “selective justice” by issuing special warrants for two High Court judges to conduct substantive criminal trials during the legal vacation. In a statement dated Tuesday, August 11, and signed by General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong, the party said it was “deeply troubled” by the Chief Justice’s defence of the warrants granted to Justices Francis Achibonga and Aud
Private legal practitioner Samson Lardy Anyenini has questioned whether the ongoing criminal trial involving former National Signals Bureau Director Kwabena Adu-Boahene can proceed if his defence lawyer is unavailable during the legal vacation.
Deputy Attorney-General says the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is seeking to turn an accommodation traditionally granted to lawyers during the legal vacation into a right to determine which cases should be heard by the courts.
Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, has expressed concern about accused persons whose lawyers have chosen to stay away from court during Ghana’s ongoing legal vacation. He said lawyers who boycott proceedings for reasons related to the dispute over vacation sittings could leave their clients vulnerable, particularly in criminal cases where accused persons have a constitutional right to legal representation.
Lead counsel Samuel Atta Akyea has defended his decision to stay away from court during Ghana’s ongoing legal vacation, insisting that he would rather “die for democracy” than compromise what he considers established legal traditions. The former Attorney-General said his position is not an attempt to abandon his client but a decision to uphold principles he believes are fundamental to the legal profession and constitutional democracy. Speaking on JoyNews’ Top Story, Mr Atta Akyea rejected sugg
Samuel Atta Akyea, lead counsel for former National Signals Bureau Director Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng, has defended his decision not to appear in court on Tuesday, August 11, despite a directive for the ongoing trial to continue during the legal vacation.
Lead counsel for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, Samuel Atta Akyea, has rejected claims that the defence is using the judiciary’s legal vacation to delay the ongoing trial. Speaking on JoyNews’ Top Story on Tuesday, Mr Atta Akyea said the defence has consistently attended court and has no intention of frustrating the […]
A former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Joseph Kpemka, has described as “novel” the decision by specialised High Courts to continue substantive criminal trials during Ghana’s ongoing legal vacation.
The High Court in Accra has given former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng, six days to secure the presence of their lawyers for the continuation of their trial on August 17. The court warned that if they fail to appear with counsel on the next […]
Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Justice Srem-Sai, has rejected the Ghana Bar Association’s position on proceedings during the legal vacation, insisting that lawyers have no legal basis to decide whether cases should be heard before Vacation Courts. He described the GBA’s position as “completely wrong”, arguing that it is unsupported by law, fact, reason or established rules of court practice.
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