Prof Kwaku Asare punches holes into Oppong Nkrumah’s Supreme Court suit over legal vacation

Professor Kwaku Asare has challenged the constitutional basis of a lawsuit filed by former Education Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah over the Chief Justice’s decision to allow selected criminal trials to continue during the legal vacation.

On the argument that the Chief Justice’s directive violates the right to rest, leisure and holidays, Prof Asare said Articles 24 and 36(10) do not create a constitutional entitlement for judges and lawyers to have August and September free from court proceedings.

Prof Asare therefore argued that keeping criminal courts functioning during the legal vacation could, in fact, advance the constitutional requirement for criminal cases to be determined within a reasonable time.