Supreme Court unanimously dismisses challenges to Torkornoo's removal process

The Supreme Court has today, July 2, unanimously dismissed constitutional challenges seeking to halt the suspension and removal process of Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, ruling that the suits lacked merit.

The decision upholds the constitutionality of the removal process initiated against the Chief Justice.

The Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem Sai, represented the state in the proceedings.

The court delivered its judgment after consolidating four constitutional actions into two cases.

The first consolidated case comprised J1/22/2025, filed by Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo against the Attorney General and the five members of the Article 146 Committee, together with J1/20/2025, filed by the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems LBG.

The second consolidated case brought together J1/18/2025, filed by the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, and J1/21/2025, filed by Theodore Kofi Atta Quartey.

The seven-member panel that heard the cases was presided over by Justices Amadu Tanko, Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, Henry Anthony Kwofie, Senyo Dzamefe, Sir Dominic Denis Adjei, Hafisata Amaleboba and Kweku Tawiah Ackaah Boafo.

In a unanimous decision, the apex court held that the constitutional challenges were without merit, thereby affirming the legality of the ongoing process that led to Justice Torkornoo's removal as Chief Justice.