Ghana’s Suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, has filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to restrain the six-member committee established by President John Mahama to investigate petitions for her removal.
In the application filed on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, she is requesting an interlocutory injunction to stop the committee’s activities until the court delivers a final ruling.
The Chief Justice is also asking the court to bar Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu from presiding or participating in the committee’s deliberations, and to suspend the warrant of suspension issued under Article 146(10) of the Constitution.
The legal action, submitted by her lawyers at Dame and Partners, is set to be heard in the coming days.
On the same day, the Supreme Court dismissed two separate suits challenging the removal process. The first, filed by private citizen Theodore Kofi Atta-Quartey, and the second, by the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems (CenCES), were both rejected in 4–1 majority decisions. CenCES had argued that the President’s suspension of the Chief Justice was unconstitutional and sought to stop the committee’s work. However, the Court upheld the legitimacy of the President’s action and allowed the committee to proceed.
The five-member panel included Justices Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Yonny Kulendi, Henry Anthony Kwofie, and Yaw Asare Darko, with Justice Darko dissenting in both rulings.
