Supreme Court to rule on Oppong Nkrumah’s injunction against vacation Court trials August 21

On the substantive constitutional challenge, Dr Srem-Sai argued that Mr Oppong Nkrumah had conflated the Chief Justice’s administrative role in issuing the warrant with the judicial functions of individual High Court judges.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah, represented by lawyer Frank Davies, is seeking an interlocutory injunction to suspend the operation of an administrative warrant issued by the Chief Justice pending the determination of his substantive constitutional case challenging its validity.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah’s case is that the Chief Justice’s warrant exceeds the proper exercise of administrative discretion and permits trials to continue during a period when, according to his lawyers, courts traditionally deal mainly with urgent and non-contentious matters.