Justice Jones Dotse is the Chief Justice succeeding the retiredJustice Anin Yeboah 




The judge, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, retired today from service after twenty-one years as a judge, including three years as the head of the court.

After his retirement, Justice Jones Dotse, the longest serving judge of the Supreme Court took over the post of Chief Justice. This is in accordance with Section 144 (6) of the 1992 Act, which providesthat where the judge's office is unavailable or the judge is for any reason unable to perform the duties of the office, the person the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall do so. act as chief justice until a chief justice is appointed.

Justice Dotse will act as ActingJustice until Parliament approves the appointment of Justice Gertrude Esaba Sackey Torkornoo as a judge. JudgeTorkornoo will appear before the parliamentary selection committee on Friday May 26 for confirmation.

Profile of Justice Anin Yeboah 

Justice Anin Yeboah was born inToase in the Ashanti Region in May 1953. He attended Amaniampong High School and Apam Secondary School, then joined the University of Ghana and Ghana Law School, graduating in 1981.

He served as State Assistant in the office of the Attorney General of Koforidua where he was appointed the Eastern Regional President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA). He wasalso a judge of the SupremeCourt between 2002 and 2003 and of the Court of Appeal from 2003 to 2008, until he was elevated to the Supreme Court by President John Agyekum Kufuor.

Justice Anin Yeboah also served as the chairman of the Ghana Football Appeals Committeefrom 2004 to 2008 and was a member of the FIFA Arbitration Chamber. In May 2017, he was elected chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the 67th FIFA Congress in Bahrain and is also chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee.

Former President Kufuor appointed Justice Anin Yeboah to the Supreme Court in June 2008.

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