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Justice Sophia Akuffo is coaxing Parliament to avoid cutting down the budgetary demands of the judiciary and standby for a wonderful performance from the judicial system. Madam Akuffo who is the Chief Justice designate told Parliament’s Appointment Committee Friday that stifling the judiciary of funds is as “bad” as placing a cap on human resource recruitment into the various sectors of the economy, irrespective of the fact that there are vacancies to be filled. “We need the money to be able to do the work that we have to do,” she told the ranking member of the committee who doubles…

A student nurse in Colombia has survived a fall from the sixth floor of a hospital in the city of Cali after landing on top of a doctor. The doctor, Isabel Muñoz, who was studying at University Hospital del Valle, died from her injuries. The nurse, Maria Isabel Gonzalez, suffered multiple fractures but is in a stable condition. It is not clear what caused her to fall. A police investigation has been launched. “We don’t know what happened,” said hospital director Juan Carlos Corrales. “All we know for now is that we are living a tragedy here. It is a…

A student nurse in Colombia has survived a fall from the sixth floor of a hospital in the city of Cali after landing on top of a doctor. The doctor, Isabel Muñoz, who was studying at University Hospital del Valle, died from her injuries. The nurse, Maria Isabel Gonzalez, suffered multiple fractures but is in a stable condition. It is not clear what caused her to fall. A police investigation has been launched. “We don’t know what happened,” said hospital director Juan Carlos Corrales. “All we know for now is that we are living a tragedy here. It is a…

Although everything in Ghana is highly politicised, the country’s judiciary has been insulated from the politicisation, Chief Justice-designate, Sophia Akuffo, has asserted “…I’m not saying everything is political but everything is politicised excessively in this country,” she said, adding”I’m an example that it [the judiciary] is not [politicised]”. She said considering the fact that she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ghana by former President John Rawlings and now nominated as Chief Justice by President Nana Akufo-Addo, there is clearly no politicisation of the judiciary. “I was appointed by a former president Jerry John Rawlings and I have now been…

Chief Justice-designate, Justice Sophia Akuffo has assured Ghanaians that the “delivering of quality justice” she is going to preside over would ensure that nobody has a cause to accuse the judiciary of providing the grounds for ‘mob justice’. At the Parliaments Appointments Committee on Friday, Madam Sophia Akuffo who strenuously refrained from describing mob action as ‘mob justice”, was emphatic that the action is “a misnomer and it’s definitely not justice, and it’s got nothing to do with” justice as delivered by the judiciary. Not justifying mob justice in society, the Chief Justice designate elucidated that people usually resort to…

Emmanuel Kutin, Executive Director, African Centre for Security and Counter-Terrorism (ACSC) has called on the Inspector General of Police and other security bodies to quickly rally and nib the growing incidence of insecurity across the country, stressing that currently a lot of people feel insecure afraid of what might befall them as they go about their daily routines. He said the system must promptly reassure the entire Ghanaian populace of what they are doing to ensure peace and security. “Immediately,” Mr. Kutin said, “the police must quickly ban the use of motorbikes after 8.00 pm as a means of reducing…

A 65 five year old woman, Julian Affum has nobody to support her in her misfortune after the death of her husband two years ago. She can no longer work, after she slipped and fell while attending to her sick husband. On July 23, 2015, Julian Affum met her misfortune. While serving food to her late husband, she slipped and fell. As a result the 65year old Julian cannot walk properly because she sustained pelvic dislocation of the hip. Her husband died through the sickness she was helping him through some two years ago In an interview with TV3’s Odilia Agyeman Prempeh…

Ghana’s Chief Justice-designate, Ms Sophia Akuffo, has shot down calls for the Ghana School of Law to be scrapped, justifying its place in the country’s legal education system as being important to the practice of law. She contended at her vetting Friday morning that the various law faculties in the universities offer their students pure theoretical education, hence the need for the Ghana School of Law to be maintained. “I’m not one of those who subscribe to the Ghana School of Law being scrapped. What happens in the universities at the faculties of law is that they educate people academically…

It appears clamouring by some lawyers, demanding amendment to an “archaic” rule banning lawyers from advertising on social media, cannot be met with ease as the Chief Justice nominee expresses distaste in their demand. Although processes to amend such rules are available, Justice Sophia Akuffo, a justice of the Supreme Court who has been nominated by President Akufo-Addo to head Ghana’s judicial system, emphatically cautioned against actions that may erode the dignity of the bar. Earlier this month, June, a renowned human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu was banned from practising for three years by the General Legal Council for misconducting…

Chief justice-designate, Justice Sophia Akuffo, has said quality judges and quality justice delivery for all Ghanaians would be her vision for Ghana’s judiciary if approved as the country’s Chief Justice. At her vetting Friday morning in Accra by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Justice Akuffo said her tenure would ensure there is quality judges who will deliver quality justice for all in line with the laws of the land. She told the Committee her vision for the judiciary is “Quality judges delivering quality justice for all in accordance with the constitution and doing it with the optimal application of technology…