President Akufo-Addo on Monday accepted into office ten new Justices of the High Court, charging them to administer equity without dread or favor, fondness or malevolence.
The Justices included Ebenezer Osei-Darko, Bernard Bentil, Alexander Graham, and Mercy Adei Kotei, who were undeniably 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 upheld the requirement for them to show genuineness, uprightness, 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 clumsy 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 "quite a bit of legal work starts and finishes there."
"It is thusly 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 adjudicators," he expressed.
President Akufo-Addo advised the adjudicators to try not to proffer decisions based on choices from lower courts and to utilize the respected custom-based regulation practice of priority as the establishment for the intelligible advancement of the law.
"You should be learned, know your case regulation, and guarantee your choices and decisions are appropriately inspired," he said.
The President built up the way that the regulation of equity expected that the use of the traditions that must be adhered to should happen without dread or favor, fondness or hostility, and without plan of action 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 likewise, and the policing including you our new appointed authorities should guarantee this is finished… that is the genuine significance of the idea of balance under the watchful eye of the law"
President Akufo-Addo likewise urged the adjudicators to use innovation to assist the lead of cases that preceded them and in the administration of the Courts.
He underlined that the straightforward and productive 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 heading out significant distances to get to courts, and had chosen to cure what is happening.
With that in mind, 60 locale courts, 60 cabins for judges, and three new high courts for three of the six recently made areas would be authorized before the beginning of the lawful year in October.
Moreover, Government, through the Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, is building 100 new courts and cabins 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 promised that they would attempt to legitimize their height.
"We vow to stay consistent with our promises and to release our obligations with industriousness" she said.
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