The Supreme Court has rejected an interlocutory injunction application filed by Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, which sought to suspend both her suspension and the impeachment proceedings against her.
In a unanimous ruling today, a five-member panel led by Acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie found the application to lack merit and dismissed it.
Justice Torkornoo had requested the court to put a temporary stop to her suspension and the ongoing impeachment process pending the outcome of her constitutional challenge against these proceedings.
Earlier, the Supreme Court struck out certain affidavits sworn by Justice Torkornoo in support of her injunction application. The court held that these affidavits included details from the committee investigating the petition against her, information that is protected under Article 146(8) of the Constitution and must remain confidential.
As a result, the court ruled that the depositions violated constitutional provisions and struck out the supplementary affidavit, stating, “The supplementary affidavit is struck out and does not form part of the evidence on record.”
This decision followed the court’s acceptance of an objection raised by Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Justice Srem-Sai.
Prior to this, the Supreme Court had overruled a request from the Attorney-General to exclude members of the investigative committee from being named in the injunction application.
Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Justice Srem-Sai had asked the court to remove the names of the committee members—Justices Gabriel Pwamang, Samuel Adibu-Asiedu, Daniel Domelevo, Major Flora Bazwaanura Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dzisa—from the injunction filed by Chief Justice Torkornoo.
