The Human Rights Division of the High Court has today, July 31 2025 struck out Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Essaba Torkornoo’s application for Judicial review, describing it as an “abuse of the court processes” and lacks jurisdiction.
Presiding Judge, His Lordship Kwame Amoako also said he was not clothed with the authority to deal with portions of the CJ’s suit bothering on her ongoing removal hearings.
It would be recalled that Chief Justice in a press conference lamented how she had been refused authenticated copies of the petitions against her and the corresponding responses. She had also decried what she said was inhuman bodily search she was subjected to when she submitted herself to the Committee at its hearings.
Her Ladyship subsequently proceeded to the Human Rights Court asking that the Committee’s hearings be stopped until she was served with copies of the petitions and answers.In her suit to the Court, Chief Justice Torkornoo said the committee’s hearings already conducted should be declared as haven’t happened because the committee was not properly constituted, it’s processes were irregular and that the Committee did not give her day in court.
But the presiding Judge in dismissing the application said the matters were not within his authority to decide.
