Atuguba emailed judgement from USA

Unconfirmed reports available to the New Statesman indicates that the president of the nine-member Supreme Court panel of judges that heard the just-ended presidential election petition only emailed his judgement to the Registrar from his base in the United States of America Tuesday.

This goes contrary to portions of the ruling read out by Justice William Atuguba, who told the whole world that: “our various judgements for the sake of convenience are handed over to the registrar of this court.”

As of Tuesday, the petitioners had still not got copies of the judgement which Justice Atuguba had claimed was available at the registry.

This claim by Justice Atuguba was denied by the Registrar who indicated that the final judgement would be ready September 3.

According to sources close to lawyers for the petitioners, the lawyers went to the Registrar as scheduled, for copies of the judgement and were once again told that it was not ready.

This development, therefore, compelled the lawyers for the petitioners to issue a letter to the Registrar of the Supreme Court demanding, as soon as possible, a copy of the judgement which Justice Atuguba had stated in open court was available at the registry for interested parties to pick up.

Sources at the Registry of the Supreme Court have hinted the paper that one of the judges whose judgement is still not ready is Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie.

Indeed, it is this same Justice Baffoe-Bonnie who, according to the ruling, was said to have upheld and dismissed, at the same time, the petitioners’ claims of voting without biometric verification, which resulted in the registry of the Supreme Court correcting the summary judgement read out in open court by Justice William Atuguba.

In addition to this, on Monday, September 2, the New Statesman was reliably informed that one of the nine Supreme Court judges had recalled the judgement sent to the registry, for reasons still unknown to the Registrar.