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Journal articles on the topic "Ghana. Supreme Court"

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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The Admissibility of Evidence Obtained through Human Rights Violations in Ghana: Analysing Cubagee v Asare and Others (NO. J6/04/2017) [2018] GHASC 14 (28 February 2018)." African Journal of Legal Studies 12, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 81–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340044.

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Abstract The Constitution of Ghana, unlike those of other African countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa is silent on the issue of the admissibility of evidence obtained through human rights violations. Jurisprudence from Ghana demonstrates that although there had been cases in which the High Court and the Court of Appeal briefly dealt with this type of evidence, the Supreme Court, the highest court in Ghana, had not expressed an opinion on this issue until recently. In February 2018, in the case of Cubagee v Asare and Others, the Supreme Court laid down the criteria that Ghanaian courts have to use in determining the admissibility of evidence obtained through human rights violations. In this article, the author argues that much as this is an important decision, the Supreme Court left some issues unresolved and there is still room for improvement.
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Slinn, Peter E. "Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana." Commonwealth Law Bulletin 42, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03050718.2015.1123834.

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Asante, Samuel K. B. "Over a Hundred Years of a National Legal System in Ghana." Journal of African Law 31, no. 1-2 (1987): 70–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300009256.

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On 1976, Ghana celebrated the centenary of the establishment of its Supreme Court. But this was more than a centenary of a supreme court. It was in fact the celebration of a hundred years of a national legal system. During the past century, Ghana has operated a pluralistic legal system encompassing English and other Western juristic ideas and procedures on the one hand, and Ghana's own indigenous laws on the other. The burden of this paper is to undertake an appraisal of the efficacy of this legal heritage and to consider the challenge which this legacy poses. The emphasis is not so much on the historical or analytical description of the nation's legal heritage as on a functional review of the totality of Ghana's legal experience in the light of the prevailing social and economic conditions. More precisely, to what extent have the Ghanaian courts and legislative bodies succeeded in moulding both the received law and the indigenous customary law to respond to the pressing social and economic needs of the country? Is there in fact a peculiarly Ghanaian legal tradition?The first Supreme Court was established in 1853, but its jurisdiction was confined to the coastal settlements and it could not pretend to be a national institution. The modern Ghanaian legal system was inaugurated by the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1876, which not only established a national judicial system but also prescribed the law and procedure to be applied in this court system.
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Kludze, A. K. P. "Chieftaincy jurisdication and the muddle of constitutional interpretation in Ghana." Journal of African Law 42, no. 1 (1998): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300010482.

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The Supreme Court of Ghana, in The Ghana Bar Association v. The Attorney General, has unanimously decided that, even under the 1992 Constitution, High Court and the Court of Appeal have no jurisdiction in chieftaincy matters. Even if this decision itself is correct, it is nevertheless premised on highly questionable legal propositions and dicta which strike at the foundations of several otherwise settled principles and canons of construction.
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Van Gyampo, Ransford Edward. "The State of Electoral Reforms in Ghana." Africa Spectrum 52, no. 3 (December 2017): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971705200305.

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Following Ghana's December 2012 elections, there was a protracted election petition process at the nation's Supreme Court challenging the declaration of the winner as the duly elected presidential candidate. Even though the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the declared winner, it made several recommendations that paved the way for numerous interventions aimed at putting together proposals for electoral reform to fine-tune Ghana's electoral processes. Several such reform proposals were submitted to the Electoral Commission by the end of 2013. Nevertheless, these were not implemented to guide the 2016 general elections. The successful conduct of the 2016 elections has therefore been described as a “miracle.” Why were the reform proposals not implemented? What is the current state of reform proposals submitted to the Electoral Commission? What is the way forward? This article addresses these questions.
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Oppong, Richard Frimpong. "Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana, written by Samuel Kofi Date-Bah." Global Journal of Comparative Law 5, no. 2 (July 30, 2016): 279–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211906x-00502005.

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Srem-Sai, Justice. "Committing Ghana to International Agreements: A Review of the Roles of Parliament and the President." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 29, no. 2 (May 2021): 204–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2021.0360.

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Ghana, a dualist state within the broader common law legal tradition, is confronted with the issue on the roles of parliament and the president in making and implementing treaties. This challenge is affecting the country's relationship with other states and international organisations. The purpose of this article is to assist in clarifying Ghana's constitutional law and practice position on the relationship between the country's treaty obligations and its domestic law. The article will also point out some challenges with the jurisprudence of Ghana's Supreme Court on the issue.
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Okyir, Nana Tawiah. "Toward a Progressive Realisation of Socio-economic Rights in Ghana: A Socio-legal Analysis." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 25, no. 1 (February 2017): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2017.0183.

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This article argues for the strengthening and entrenchment of socio-economic rights provisions in Ghana's jurisprudence. The purpose of this entrenchment is to engender judicial activism in promoting more creative pathways for enforcing socio-economic rights in Ghana. The article traces the development of socio-economic rights in Ghana's jurisprudence, especially the influence of the requirements of the international rights movement, particularly of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The article delves into the constitutional history of Ghana and its impact on the evolution of rights in the country. Of particular historical emphasis is the emergence of socio-economic rights under the Directive Principles of State Policy in the 1979 Constitution. However, the significance of the socio-economic rights only became profound with the return to democratic rule under the 1992 Constitution, again under a distinct chapter on Directive Principles of State Policy. However, unlike its counterpart, the chapter on the Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, which is directly enforceable, the Directive Principles of State Policy were not. It took the Supreme Court of Ghana a series of landmark decisions until finally, in 2008, it arrived at a presumption of justiciability in respect of all of the provisions in the 1992 Constitution. It is evident that prior to this, the Supreme Court was not willing to apply the same standards of adjudication and enforcement as it ordinarily applies in respect of rights under the chapter on Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms. Having surmounted the non-justiciability hurdle, what is left is for the courts to begin to vigorously pursue an agenda that puts socio-economic rights at the centre of Ghana's rights adjudication framework. The article draws on comparative experiences from India and South Africa to showcase the extent of judicial creativity in rights adjudication. In India, the courts have been able to work around provisions restricting the enforcement of Directive Principles by often connecting them to Fundamental Freedoms. In South Africa, there is no hierarchy between civil and political rights on the one hand and socio-economic rights on the other; for that reason, the courts give equal ventilation to both sets of rights. The article further analyses these examples in the light of ongoing constitutional reforms in Ghana. It argues that these reforms fall short of the activism required to propel socio-economic rights adjudication to the forefront in Ghana's jurisprudence. In this regard, the article proposes social movements as a viable tool for socio-economic rights advocacy by recounting its success in previous controversial issues in Ghana. The article also connects this to other important building blocks like building socio-economic rights into a national development blueprint. Overall, the article calls for an imaginative socio-economic rights enforcement approach that is predicated on legislation, judicial activism, social movements and a national development blueprint aimed at delivering a qualitative life for the Ghanaian.
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Gocking, Roger. "Colonial rule and the ‘legal factor’ in Ghana and Lesotho." Africa 67, no. 1 (January 1997): 61–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161270.

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This article compares and contrasts the development of the legal systems of two British colonies that occuped almost opposite ends of the colonial judicial continuum: what in colonial times were known as the Gold Coast and Basutoland. Both became British colonies in the late nineteenth century, but followed considerably different paths to that status. In the case of the Gold Coast it followed centuries of contact between Europeans and the coastal peoples in this area of West Africa. In the case of Basutoland incorporation into the European world was a nineteenth-century phenomenon and far more rapid. Nevertheless, at the turn of the century, as indirect rule became the officially accepted wisdom as to how colonial peoples should be ruled, administrators in both colonies sought to make the chiefly order an integral part of the colony's administration and award its chiefs judicial responsibilities. In the Gold Coast, however, chiefly courts remained in competition with a highly developed British-style Supreme Court. In Basutoland there were basically only chiefly courts until late in the colonial period, which applied Sesotho customary law that was written down as the Laws of Lerotholi in 1903. The two-tier judicial system of the Gold Coast allowed far more contestation and was far more flexible and responsive to social changes than was the case in Basutoland. Incremental changes over time meant that the judicial system evolved far more smoothly than in Basutoland. When in the latter colony changes did not come ‘from above’ in the 1940s, there was a serious outbreak of ‘medicine murders’ that many observers felt was directly related to the chiefs losing their judicial role. Also, the colony's high court ruled against the validity of the Laws of Lerotholi in the controversial ‘Regency case’. Apart from being a return to comparative analyses of the impact of colonial rule on former African colonies, much in vogue in the 1960s, this study is an attempt to modify the emphasis on ‘cleavage’ and the ‘coercive’ that has characterised historians' approach to the study of colonial law.
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Asare, Stephen Kwaku. "Ghana's New Region Creation Doctrine: The Jurisprudence of No Jurisdiction and the Faux Economics of Balkanisation." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 28, no. 4 (November 2020): 529–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2020.0338.

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Ghana recently created six new regions, amid controversy over who was entitled to vote in the region-creating referenda and its likely economic consequences. The Supreme Court declined jurisdiction to address the suffrage controversy, paving the way for voters in only the specified areas of the affected regions to vote for creating the regions. This article evaluates the Court's reasons for declining jurisdiction and the arguments made to support the creation of the regions. It concludes that there is merit in the claim that all voters in the affected regions should have participated in the referenda and raises substantial doubts about the arguments in favour of creating the regions. It also concludes that creating new regions gives the semblance of increased decentralisation but only results in deconcentration, hence more centralisation. The exercise continues the post-independence drift from regional power-sharing to fragmented powerless regions. Since the resulting fragmentation of the country provides no clear benefits but imposes certain costs, the article suggests either a constitutional amendment or statutory reforms to raise the bar for creating new regions.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ghana. Supreme Court"

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Bimpong-Buta, S. Y. 1940. "The role of the Supreme Court in the development of constitutional law in Ghana." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2386.

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The theme running through this dissertation is intended to prove that the Supreme Court has a role to play in the promotion, enforcement and sustenance of a proper democratic system of government, good governance and fundamental human rights and freedoms in Ghana. The Study would therefore address the role of the Supreme Court in the development of Constitutional Law in Ghana, with particular emphasis on the court's contribution to the underlying concepts of the Fourth Republican Constitution of 1992; the guiding principles of constitutional interpretation and the vexed issue of whether the court should adopt a mechanical and literal approach to the interpretation of the Constitution or adopt a liberal, beneficent and purposive approach. The Supreme Court has asserted in the locus classicus decision: Tuffuor v Attorney-General [1980] GLR 637 that the 1979 Constitution as the supreme law, must be construed as a living political document capable of growth. Is there any evidence now to support that claim? The study shall also investigate the question of the power of the Supreme Court to review legislative and executive action. We shall also examine the role of the Supreme Court in the interpretation and enforcement of the Constitution and Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms in relation to the rights and obligations of the individual and the State with the view to achieving good governance. The 1992 Constitution itself is founded on the premise that there are limitations to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms. What is the extent of such limitations as determined by the Supreme Court? What has been the Supreme Court's contribution to the sustenance of political stability and democratic governance and, especially, in matters relating to coup d'etats and to enforcement of the Constitution itself as distinct from the enforcement of fundamental human rights and freedoms? Has the Supreme Court power to enforce the Constitution and the existing law where there is proven case of injustice and illegality? Has the Supreme Court power to enforce Directive Principles of State Policy as formulated in chapter 6 of the 1992 Ghana Constitution?
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Books on the topic "Ghana. Supreme Court"

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The law of chieftaincy in Ghana: Incorporating customary arbitration, contempt of court, judicial review. Accra, Ghana: Advanced Legal Publications, 2008.

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Brobbey, S. A. The law of chieftaincy in Ghana: Incorporating customary arbitration, contempt of court, judicial review. Accra, Ghana: Advanced Legal Publications, 2008.

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Prempeh, K. Toward judicial independence and accountability in an emerging democracy: The courts and the consolidation of democracy in Ghana. Accra, Ghana: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.

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Sawyer, Amos. Dynamics of conflict management in Liberia. Accra, Ghana: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.

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Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana (JCL Studies in Comparative Law). Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2015.

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Kwami, Tetteh S., Ghana Supreme Court, Ghana Court of Appeal, and Ghana Bar Association, eds. The Ghana bar law reports 1992-1993: Reports of decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Ghana. Accra: Ghana Bar Association, 1998.

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Samuel Kofi, Date-Bah. Part 5 Decision-Making and Working Practices, 15 Decision-making and Working Practices of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810216.003.0016.

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Kofi, Quashigah. Part 2 Archetypal Examples of Different Models of African Constitutional Adjudication, 5 The Supreme Court of Ghana under the 1992 Constitution: Nature of Jurisdiction as the Apex Court and Contribution to the Promotion of Constitutionalism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810216.003.0006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghana. Supreme Court"

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Gyamfi, Gerald, and Brian Akrong. "Anin-Yeboah, Ghana Supreme Court." In Trends in the Judiciary, 7–22. CRC Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17907-3.

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