Justice

The Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has filed an interlocutory injunction at the Supreme Court seeking to halt the work of the five-member committee established by President Mahama to inquire into the three petitions against her removal from office.

In a the suit filed on May 21, 2025, and sighted by 3News, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo is praying the court for an order to restrain the Committee from taking any action in connection with the prima facie case determined against her.

Gertrude Torkonoo also wants the court to restrain Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu from participating in the proceedings of the Committee established to inquire into the petitions against her.

In her statement of claim, the suspended Chief Justice is seeking the court to issue an order to quash her suspension which was issued by President Mahama in accordance with the constitution.

“An order restraining the committee set up by the President to inquire into the three petitions against the plaintiff, composed of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th defendants, from proceeding with an inquiry, the execution of the terms of reference of the committee or taking any action in connection with the purported determination of a prima facie case made against the plaintiff until the hearing and final determination of the instant action;

“An order restraining the 2nd and 3rd defendants/respondents from presiding over or participating in proceedings of the committee appointed by the President to inquire into three petitions purportedly presented for the removal of the plaintiff as Chief Justice of the Republic until the hearing and final determination of the instant action,” the statement of claim highlighted.

“An order suspending the operation of the warrant for suspension of the Chief Justice purportedly issued by the President under article 146(10) of the Constitution, 1992, until the hearing and final determination of the instant action.

“Any further order(s) at to this Honourable Court may seem meet,” the suit stated.

The suit names the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, Daniel Yao Domelovo and other members of the Committee as defendants in the case.

Source: 3news