Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has filed an interlocutory injunction application to halt the proceedings of the committee investigating petitions seeking her removal.
In an application filed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, the suspended Chief Justice is asking the court to issue an order restraining the committee from taking further action in the case for her removal from office.
The suit also seeks to bar Justices Pwamang and Adibu-Asiedu from participating in any of the committee’s deliberations.
The five-member committee set up by President John Dramani Mahama includes Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, Daniel Yao Domelevo, Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dziasah.
The application, filed by her legal team from Dame and Partners, further seeks the court to issue an order to quash her suspension.
This follows a ruling by the Apex Court dismissing a legal challenge seeking to overturn the suspension of the Chief Justice and to stop the work of the committee investigating her possible removal from office.
The case was filed by the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems (CenCES), a civil society organisation, which argued that the President’s actions breached key provisions of the 1992 Constitution.
CenCES maintained that the suspension undermined judicial independence, violated due process, and was procedurally flawed under Article 146, which governs the removal of justices.
The five-member Supreme Court panel hearing the case included Justices Paul Baffoe-Bonnie (Presiding), Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Yonny Kulendi, Henry Anthony Kwofie, and Yaw Asare Darko, in a 4-1 majority, dismissed the case.
Justice Asare Darko was the lone dissenter.
