After 21 years as a judge and three years as Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah officially announced his retirement from the bench today.
The senior-most justice on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Jones Dotse, retired and was replaced as Acting Chief Justice.
This is in accordance with Article 144(6) of the 1992 Constitution, which states that the most senior Supreme Court Justice shall serve as acting Chief Justice until a substantive Chief Justice is appointed when the office of Chief Justice is vacant or the Chief Justice is unable to carry out the duties of his office for any reason.
The interim Chief Justice will be Justice Dotse until Parliament confirms the appointment of the actual Chief Justice, Gertrude Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo.
On Friday, May 26, Justice Torkornoo is due to appear before the Appointments Committee of Parliament for screening.
Profile of Justice Anin Yeboah
In May 1953, Justice Anin Yeboah was born in the Ashanti Region's Toase.
He graduated in 1981 from the Ghana School of Law at the University of Ghana after attending Amaniampong Secondary School and Apam Secondary School.
At the Attorney-General's Office in Koforidua, where he worked as an assistant state attorney, he was chosen to lead the Ghana Bar Association's (GBA) Eastern Region.
In addition, he worked for the Court of Appeals from 2003 to 2008 and the High Court from 2002 to 2003. prior to John Agyekum Kufuor, the former president, promoting him to the Supreme Court.
In addition, from 2004 to 2008, Justice Anin Yeboah served as the Ghana Football Association's appeals committee chairman. He then advanced to the position of a member of FIFA's adjudicatory chamber.
He served as the Chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee in addition to being chosen Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the 67th FIFA Congress in Bahrain in May 2017.
In June 2008, former President Kufuor appointed Justice Anin Yeboah to the Supreme Court.
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