President Akufo-Addo on Monday enlisted into office ten new Justices of the High Court, charging them to apportion equity without dread or favor, love or malevolence.
The Justices included Ebenezer Osei-Darko, Bernard Bentil, Alexander Graham, and Mercy Adei Kotei, who were totally raised from the Circuit Courts.
The rest are Mr. George Kwame Gyan-Kontoh, Mr. Richard Apietu, Mr. Eric Ansah Ankomah, Mrs. Cynthia Martinson, Dr. Mrs. Bridget Kafui Antonio-Apedzi and Ms. Nabeela Naeema Wahab, every one of whom join the seat from private practice.
At a short service at the Jubilee House, Accra, President Akufo-Addo saluted them on their merited arrangement, and implemented the requirement for them to show trustworthiness, honesty, and sound information on the law to acquire the certainty individuals.
He encouraged them to shun all structures and enticements of debasement all through their process as judges of the Superior Court of Judicature in light of the fact that "a bad or uncouth appointed authority is a threat to the public interest and legal organization."
The President reminded the judges that the high court was the point of convergence for equity conveyance in the nation, adding "a lot of legal work starts and finishes there."
"It is accordingly basic for the development of the country that the High Court deserves the admiration of individuals by the nature of its decisions as well as the comportment of its appointed authorities," he expressed.
President Akufo-Addo reproved the appointed authorities to try not to proffer decisions based on choices from lower courts and to utilize the respected customary regulation practice of priority as the establishment for the lucid improvement of the law.
"You should be learned, know your case regulation, and guarantee your choices and decisions are appropriately roused," he said.
The President supported the way that the allotment of equity expected that the use of the rules that everyone must follow should happen without dread or favor, fondness or malevolence, and without response to political, ethnic or strict affiliations.
"At the point when a resident falls foul of the law, that resident, high or low, should be managed as needs be, and the policing including you our new adjudicators should guarantee this is finished… that is the genuine significance of the idea of equity under the watchful eye of the law"
President Akufo-Addo additionally urged the adjudicators to use innovation to assist the lead of cases that preceded them and in the administration of the Courts.
He stressed that the straightforward and proficient conveyance of equity constructs trust in residents, organizations and the financial backer local area.
The Government, the President told the Judges, had observed the lacking quantities of courts in different pieces of the nation, bringing about residents making a trip significant distances to get to courts, and had chosen to cure what is happening.
With that in mind, 60 locale courts, 60 lodges for judges, and three new high courts for three of the six recently made districts would be appointed before the beginning of the legitimate year in October.
Also, Government, through the Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, is building 100 new courts and homes for Judges in every one of the 16 Regions of the country.
Equity Mercy Adei Kotei who represented her associate judges offered thanks to the President for the certainty rested in them and vowed that they would attempt to legitimize their height.
"We vow to stay consistent with our promises and to release our obligations with persistence" she said.
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