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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Ghana’s new chief justice: Gertrude Tokornoo faces challenges, but could help transform the country’s courts

Ghana’s new chief justice: Gertrude Tokornoo faces challenges, but could help transform the country’s courts

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
HER Ladyship Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo took office as the 15th, chief justice of Ghana on 12 June 2023. She is the third woman to occupy the position, which is the fourth highest in the country after the president, vice-president and speaker of parliament. Ghana’s judiciary is made up of the supreme court, the court of appeal, the high court and the magistrate (district) court. The chief justice is at the top of the judicial hierarchy and serves as administrator and supervisor. KWADWO APPIAGYEI-ATUA, Associate Professor of Law, University of Ghana The supreme court has the power, as the…
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Jul
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Ramaphosa misled Parliament – Mogoeng

Ramaphosa misled Parliament – Mogoeng

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN a minority judgment, South Africa’s Chief Justice found that President Cyril Ramaphosa personally benefited from the R500 000 contribution to his 2017  campaign to be ANC president and he deliberately misled Parliament and Public Protector Advocate Busi Mkhwebane. Mogoeng said Ramaphosa carefully and intentionally gave a false version of what he knew to be the case, to Mkhwebane. “What he did is highly unethical and a resounding rejection or dereliction of his key constitutional obligations,” Mogoeng said, adding that Ramaphosa's version was “a calculated misrepresentation of the facts by someone who is confident that the truth…
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May
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Parliament confirms Kenya 1st female chief justice

Parliament confirms Kenya 1st female chief justice

NEWS
DUNCAN MIRIRI KENYAN judge Martha Koome has defended dissidents and helped to write women's rights into the constitution - now parliament has confirmed her to be the first female chief justice in a country where the role is particularly sensitive. A child of subsistence farmers, she was chosen by a judicial panel in preference to the lawyer who argued President Uhuru Kenyatta's case in a 2017 battle with the Supreme Court that she will now head. Kenyatta will swear her into office in coming days after parliament voted to approve her nomination on Wednesday. That makes her likely to be…
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Apr
25
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa is set to appoint a new chief justice. The stakes have never been so high

South Africa is set to appoint a new chief justice. The stakes have never been so high

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
BY October, South Africa’s Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, will have finished his 12-year term at the helm of the Constitutional Court. How will his successor be selected, and what qualities are needed by the holder of this high office? HUGH CORDER, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town To answer these questions we need to understand the context. This is because the country’s judiciary has been increasingly drawn into party political wrangling and contestation. Any form of constitutional democracy which allows judicial review of the exercise of public power thrusts the courts into the political limelight. Inevitably, acts and…
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Apr
14
2021
By The African Mirror
I did not try to influence the Chief Justice – Gordhan

I did not try to influence the Chief Justice – Gordhan

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has denied that he sought to influence the appointment of a judge in a discussion, in 2016, with Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. Gordhan wrote to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), issued public denial and clarifcation after Mogoeng disclosed during an interview in which Judge Dhaya Pillay was being interviewed for a post on the Constitutional Court, that Gordhan had spoken to him about Judge Pillay. Mogoeng said;; Gordhan admitted talking to Mogoeng about Pilay but said he did so in passing. He denied attempting to influence the appointment of Dhaya,…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
India’s top judge urged to quit for suggesting rape defendant marry victim

India’s top judge urged to quit for suggesting rape defendant marry victim

WORLD
ANURADHA NAGARAJ INDIA’S chief justice is under pressure to resign after asking a man accused of rape whether he would marry the complainant - sparking outrage and concern that his words could legitimise the notion that rapists can make amends by marrying their victims. Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde posed the question during the bail hearing of a government employee who is accused of stalking, threatening and repeatedly raping a distant schoolgirl relative over a two-year period. Brinda Adige, a women's and children's rights activist, said she was "furious" over Bobde's suggestion, fearing lower courts might now be more willing…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenya’s parliament to challenge dissolution bid over lack of women

Kenya’s parliament to challenge dissolution bid over lack of women

NEWS
NITA BHALLA KENYA’S parliament will launch a legal challenge to a bid by the country's top judge to dissolve both legislative houses for not having enough women lawmakers, the speaker said on Tuesday, calling the move ill-advised, premature and unlawful. Chief Justice David Maraga on Monday advised President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve the male-dominated parliament, saying lawmakers had failed to meet a 2010 constitutional provision which allows for one-third of seats to be occupied by women. Women hold 22% of seats in the country's lower house of parliament, and 31% in the upper house. Justin Muturi Under Kenyan law, once…
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