A photo collage of suspended CJ Justice Gertrude Torkornoo (L) and Acting CJ Paul Baffoe-Bonnie
The suspended Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, has filed for a judicial review challenging the unanimous dismissal of the application she filed to halt her suspension and the ongoing impeachment proceedings against her.
A five-member panel of the court, presided over by the Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, ruled that Justice Torkornoo’s application had no merit and subsequently dismissed it.
A court document shared by The Law Platform showed that the suspended Chief had filed a judicial review challenging the judgment of the court way back in June 2025.
Justice Torkornoo, in her review application, asked the court for virtually the same reliefs as in the application that was dismissed.
She asked the court to declare all the proceedings of the five-member committee hearing three petitions for her removal, which is chaired by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, null and void, as it violates her human rights.
She also asked the court to declare that she had not been given copies of the three petitions she is being tried on, which, according to her, makes the ongoing hearing “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.”
The grounds she listed for the judicial review included:
That the Respondents are not properly and legally constituted under Article 156 to conduct the quasi-judicial proceedings required of an Article 146 Committee.
That the Respondents violated the audi alteram partem rule of natural justice and Article 282 of the 1992 Constitution on 15th May 2025, and further acted arbitrarily, unreasonably and capriciously in violation of Article 23 and Article 296 of the 1992 Constitution, leading to the conduct of void proceedings on that date.
That the Respondents have, by failing to provide to the parties the Petition, Answer, and Prima Facie determination that are to form the basis for the enquiry, violated all constitutional requirements for the conduct of a full, impartial enquiry into their alleged terms of reference, thereby rendering the proceedings they are conducting null and void.
That the Respondents have, by choosing to regulate the proceedings affecting the Applicant as adversarial litigation between the parties and subject to the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2004, CI 47, without first serving on the parties authenticated pleadings that are to form the basis for the adversarial litigation, violated all requirements for the conduct of adversarial litigation, thereby rendering the proceedings they are conducting null and void.
The document also showed that the Supreme Court is yet to set a date for the application to be moved.
Read the full document below:
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