Justice Gertrude Araba Esabaa Torkornoo, a candidate for chief justice, has warned the public against the practise of donating money to certain people to be provided to judges in order to influence their decisions.
According to her, the alleged funds frequently end up in the coffers of the people who collect them rather than the judges.
Justice Torkornoo stated during her vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament today [Friday, May 26, 2023] that the public should not allow the idea that judges may be swayed by money since it is foreign to the legal profession.
For her, certain people have established a market where they take advantage of innocent people whose cases are in court because when money is offered to judges, it will assist in swaying justice in their favour.
Justice Torkornoo used an example to illustrate her point that judges don't accept payments in exchange for their decisions, claiming that nine out of ten people who do so really pocket the judges instead.
"Don't give money to people to be taken to judges," she admonished, pointing out that one of the reasons people lose legal cases is because their attorneys occasionally do not follow proper processes while presenting their clients' arguments.
We refer to this market as judicial predators. We always work to address this in our research on ethics because there is a large predatory group near our function.
Justice Torkornoo expressed concern that, regrettably, some individuals have accepted the notion that courts will grant their requests if money is offered to them.
"Unfortunately, that view has become the norm... Our job is quite complex, and occasionally individuals lose cases because they disobeyed court regulations, rules of evidence, and substantive law precepts.
As a result, they lose the case and are left in the dark. Law is complicated; thus, law school is complicated. As a result, when individuals lose cases, they frequently question why they lost and then come up with all kinds of theories, she said.
As a result, Justice Torkornoo has committed to including the public in order to increase their awareness of how the law operates and how cases are decided.
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