 has described the comments by the Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Francis Xavier Sosu, as distasteful, unprofessional.){kind=link}
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has described comments by the Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Francis Xavier Sosu, as distasteful, unprofessional.
This comment comes after Sosu Sosu warned judges against being partisan along political lines.
Speaking to the media during the “Yentua Demo” on Thursday February 10, Sosu who is standing trial in court for unlawful blockade of road and destruction of public property after he led some constituents in Danfa on Monday, October 25, 2021 to demonstrate against their bad roads, said “I am begging you, if you make yourself a political judge, you will be treated as a political judge.
“What it means is that when you become partisan as judges remember that your tenure of office as a judge will run with the political party that you favour. Let that be clear because political power is very transient, positions are not possessions so people will come, people will go,” he added .
Reacting the comments of the Legislator, the GBA, said it had noted with disquiet and grave disappointment the assertion by Francis Xavier Sosu Esq. that some Judges are “political judges.”
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The GBA says it finds the assertion by Francis Xavier Sosu Esq. very unprofessional, unfortunate, irresponsible and distasteful and same smacks of deep-seated ignorance, as the tenure of judges per the Constitution, 1992, and other relevant laws, is never in any way whatsoever tied to the tenure of the political regime under which judges are appointed.
“Judges, unlike political office holders, are not elected into office, hence it is reckless for anybody to give the slightest suggestion that the tenure of judges are linked to the tenure of the political regimes under which judges are appointed.
“The Legal Profession (Professional Conduct and Etiquette) Rules, 2020 (L.I. 2423) forbids a lawyer from making a statement about judicial and legal officials which the lavvyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity concerning the qualification and integrity of judicial and legal officials,” excerpts of the statement added.
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