SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM BANKU, MR BEAUTIFUL, ETC ETC... ... read full comment
SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM BANKU, MR BEAUTIFUL, ETC ETC...LIKE THE WAY MUGABE HAS BEEN MANIPULATED TO END UP IN JAIL....IN THE JUNGLE THERE ARE NO JUDGES BCOS THEY HAVE ALL BEEN KILLED SO ITS SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST ....MUNTIE FM IS UNIQUE BCOS MAIN AIM IS DAILY TO RAIN INSULT ON OPPOSITION PERSONS WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER...VERY DELIBERATELY SO....YET POVERTY IS KILLING THEM DAILY AS NDC BOSSES CHOP ALL THE MONEY AND LEAVE THEN IN ABJECT POVERTY...SO SEE HOW POOR THESE MUNTIE BUFFOONS ARE YET THEY RAIN INSULTS ON ALL OPPOSITION AS IF TOMORROW DOES NOT EXIST....NDC FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN ABJECT POVERTY WHILST MAHAMA AND HIS FAMILY AND CRONIES CONTINUE TO LOOT THRO SADA GYEEDA WOYOME ETC ETC...AND THEN THEY GO AND LIVE IN DUBAI ETC WHILST FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO BEG FOR HAND OUTS...hahhahahaaaa ide biiii kekekeke paaaaaaaa nie?...OWNERS ALLOWED DAILY INSULTS OF PERSONALITIES AND BEATING OF WAR AND TRIBAL DRUMS..IT WAS DELIBERATELY DONE TO CREATE INSECURITY IN THE MINDS OF ALL OPPOSITION...WHO WILL ALLOW SUCH CRIMINALITY IF NOT CRIMINAL NDC...NDC WANTS TO KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE EH?...THEY HAVE KILLED JUDGES BEFORE SO WHO IN HIS RIGHT SENSES WILL TAKE THESE THREATS CASUALLY?....LETS BE REAL, OUR DEMOCRACY WILL BE NO DEMOCRACY IF OUR JUDGES ARE KILLED OR SCARED OF BEING KILLED FOR DOING THEIR WORK
kweku trouble 7 years ago
You have no understanding of what you just read, hence the rubbish you have written here for an answer. It's obviously above your thinking and understanding.
You have no understanding of what you just read, hence the rubbish you have written here for an answer. It's obviously above your thinking and understanding.
OFOSUAA 7 years ago
KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE SO THAT ANY BUFFOON CAN MARRY LADY JUDGES LIKE THE MUNTIE 3 ENVISIONED EH?.....POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM B ... read full comment
KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE SO THAT ANY BUFFOON CAN MARRY LADY JUDGES LIKE THE MUNTIE 3 ENVISIONED EH?.....POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM BANKU, MR BEAUTIFUL, ETC ETC...LIKE THE WAY MUGABE HAS BEEN MANIPULATED TO END UP IN JAIL....IN THE JUNGLE THERE ARE NO JUDGES BCOS THEY HAVE ALL BEEN KILLED SO ITS SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST ....MUNTIE FM IS UNIQUE BCOS MAIN AIM IS DAILY TO RAIN INSULT ON OPPOSITION PERSONS WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER...VERY DELIBERATELY SO....YET POVERTY IS KILLING THEM DAILY AS NDC BOSSES CHOP ALL THE MONEY AND LEAVE THEN IN ABJECT POVERTY...SO SEE HOW POOR THESE MUNTIE BUFFOONS ARE YET THEY RAIN INSULTS ON ALL OPPOSITION AS IF TOMORROW DOES NOT EXIST....NDC FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN ABJECT POVERTY WHILST MAHAMA AND HIS FAMILY AND CRONIES CONTINUE TO LOOT THRO SADA GYEEDA WOYOME ETC ETC...AND THEN THEY GO AND LIVE IN DUBAI ETC WHILST FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO BEG FOR HAND OUTS...hahhahahaaaa ide biiii kekekeke paaaaaaaa nie?...OWNERS ALLOWED DAILY INSULTS OF PERSONALITIES AND BEATING OF WAR AND TRIBAL DRUMS..IT WAS DELIBERATELY DONE TO CREATE INSECURITY IN THE MINDS OF ALL OPPOSITION...WHO WILL ALLOW SUCH CRIMINALITY IF NOT CRIMINAL NDC...NDC WANTS TO KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE EH?...THEY HAVE KILLED JUDGES BEFORE SO WHO IN HIS RIGHT SENSES WILL TAKE THESE THREATS CASUALLY?....LETS BE REAL, OUR DEMOCRACY WILL BE NO DEMOCRACY IF OUR JUDGES ARE KILLED OR SCARED OF BEING KILLED FOR DOING THEIR WORK
Constable Joy 7 years ago
SC SINGING A"KNOWN STUPIDITY VOICE"
SC SINGING A"KNOWN STUPIDITY VOICE"
Bobi 7 years ago
Prof Asare what law prescribes penalty
for someone who annoys the President?
Why do you give analogies that are not equal? n the contempt of court analogy the law actually exists. But no law exists to allow those who abuse ... read full comment
Prof Asare what law prescribes penalty
for someone who annoys the President?
Why do you give analogies that are not equal? n the contempt of court analogy the law actually exists. But no law exists to allow those who abuse the President to be punished. By equating an existing law with an imaginary one don't you realize the confusion you are sowing?
Abongos 7 years ago
Can you believe Ghana's celebrated "Law Prof"
spewing speculative and bullcrap "analogies"
in matters of such trial importance?
He cannot cite a single case FACT to debunk the powers inherent in giving Judges and Legisla ... read full comment
Can you believe Ghana's celebrated "Law Prof"
spewing speculative and bullcrap "analogies"
in matters of such trial importance?
He cannot cite a single case FACT to debunk the powers inherent in giving Judges and Legislators the discretion of charging an offender with CONTEMPT!
1 Loaf 7 years ago
Ofosuwaa, do you sincerely belief in your heart of hearts (if yours is not a farting ass rather than a heart) that the judges have 'killed' their killing by incarcerating the famous montie 3. You would be a big fool if you th ... read full comment
Ofosuwaa, do you sincerely belief in your heart of hearts (if yours is not a farting ass rather than a heart) that the judges have 'killed' their killing by incarcerating the famous montie 3. You would be a big fool if you thought so, why because if there is intent then that has only been postponed till when it will be sweetly carried out. If the justices of the SC become tyrants they will be granting a carte blanc to the tyrannized to rise up for themselves and the first locus of that operation will certainly be the justices and their households. Thank you ofosuwaa for your insanely myopic defense of the indefensible.
Peter 7 years ago
Buffoonery of a a so-called professor!Let someone threaten to kill you and take as a joke but rather go about dabbling in big big legal grammar. Coconut head professor!
Buffoonery of a a so-called professor!Let someone threaten to kill you and take as a joke but rather go about dabbling in big big legal grammar. Coconut head professor!
OTABIL 7 years ago
IF THEY ARE COMMITING ADULTERY THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES IF THEY ARE SMOKING WEE THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES AFTER ALL ALL DIE BE DIE AND FOR SUCH PEOPLE THE BIBLE SAYS BECAREFUL OF THEM
IF THEY ARE COMMITING ADULTERY THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES IF THEY ARE SMOKING WEE THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES AFTER ALL ALL DIE BE DIE AND FOR SUCH PEOPLE THE BIBLE SAYS BECAREFUL OF THEM
NO BODY 7 years ago
GOD PLEASE FOR JUST ONE WEEK GIVE THIS NOBLE AND HUMBLE PRESIDENT THE HEART OF KIM JO UN THE KOREAN PRESIDENT AND LET HIM SHOW SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE THAT HE HAS POWERS.
GOD PLEASE FOR JUST ONE WEEK GIVE THIS NOBLE AND HUMBLE PRESIDENT THE HEART OF KIM JO UN THE KOREAN PRESIDENT AND LET HIM SHOW SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE THAT HE HAS POWERS.
ROSEMARY 7 years ago
Hasahahaaa........Ghana is ruled by thieves in government..... Yet they seek reelection.....hahaaaaa.....SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IG ... read full comment
Hasahahaaa........Ghana is ruled by thieves in government..... Yet they seek reelection.....hahaaaaa.....SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM BANKU, MR BEAUTIFUL, ETC ETC...LIKE THE WAY MUGABE HAS BEEN MANIPULATED TO END UP IN JAIL....IN THE JUNGLE THERE ARE NO JUDGES BCOS THEY HAVE ALL BEEN KILLED SO ITS SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST ....MUNTIE FM IS UNIQUE BCOS MAIN AIM IS DAILY TO RAIN INSULT ON OPPOSITION PERSONS WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER...VERY DELIBERATELY SO....YET POVERTY IS KILLING THEM DAILY AS NDC BOSSES CHOP ALL THE MONEY AND LEAVE THEN IN ABJECT POVERTY...SO SEE HOW POOR THESE MUNTIE BUFFOONS ARE YET THEY RAIN INSULTS ON ALL OPPOSITION AS IF TOMORROW DOES NOT EXIST....NDC FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN ABJECT POVERTY WHILST MAHAMA AND HIS FAMILY AND CRONIES CONTINUE TO LOOT THRO SADA GYEEDA WOYOME ETC ETC...AND THEN THEY GO AND LIVE IN DUBAI ETC WHILST FOOTSOLDIERS CONTINUE TO BEG FOR HAND OUTS...hahhahahaaaa ide biiii kekekeke paaaaaaaa nie?...OWNERS ALLOWED DAILY INSULTS OF PERSONALITIES AND BEATING OF WAR AND TRIBAL DRUMS..IT WAS DELIBERATELY DONE TO CREATE INSECURITY IN THE MINDS OF ALL OPPOSITION...WHO WILL ALLOW SUCH CRIMINALITY IF NOT CRIMINAL NDC...NDC WANTS TO KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE EH?...THEY HAVE KILLED JUDGES BEFORE SO WHO IN HIS RIGHT SENSES WILL TAKE THESE THREATS CASUALLY?....LETS BE REAL, OUR DEMOCRACY WILL BE NO DEMOCRACY IF OUR JUDGES ARE KILLED OR SCARED OF BEING KILLED FOR DOING THEIR WORK
perscoba 7 years ago
Kwaku, I have always like and followed your legal arguments but this one paa de it is hard to sell. Are you suggesting that the action of these individuals did not threaten the future decisions of the court? which I think is ... read full comment
Kwaku, I have always like and followed your legal arguments but this one paa de it is hard to sell. Are you suggesting that the action of these individuals did not threaten the future decisions of the court? which I think is the essence of the contempt of court status. I am not a lawyer and could be wrong--just using my common sense.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case.
... read full comment
The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case.
Any other scenario must go through due process which means an independent investigator or more fairly through the attorney general's department or the director of public prosecution.
There is no defense against bias.You can not be a judge and a jury in your own case period.
Abongos 7 years ago
So, what about Contempt of Parliament?
Do the MPs ask for police, prosecutors, judges
or AG before an offender is cited?
The discretion allows judges to pre-detrmine where punishment will be more than 6-months, and if ... read full comment
So, what about Contempt of Parliament?
Do the MPs ask for police, prosecutors, judges
or AG before an offender is cited?
The discretion allows judges to pre-detrmine where punishment will be more than 6-months, and if so they use same discretion to impanel a jury!
perscoba 7 years ago
"The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case". ... read full comment
"The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case". Hope this is true
Nii Teiko 7 years ago
The twist and turns, the legal acrobatics and gymnastics cannt take away the powers which the Constitution confer on the Justices.The SC did the right thing; they acted within the the ambit of their powers, and the law. I thi ... read full comment
The twist and turns, the legal acrobatics and gymnastics cannt take away the powers which the Constitution confer on the Justices.The SC did the right thing; they acted within the the ambit of their powers, and the law. I think the Justices were angered by the initial statements of Investigative body on the land, the BNI, and the lackadaisical attitude of the attorney generals dept to proosecte the case. Whilst the BNI maitained that the Muntie 3 were incapable to carry out the threat, the AG refused to proffer criminal charges against them. How could the SC have ordered a lower Court to take charge of the case when our useless AG, and the BNI were crippled to act because the culprits were 'part' of the ruling class. We were all in the country when people were gunned down , and butchered at Chereponi and Agbobloshie respectively. And nothing happened because the suspect were sympathizers of this stupid government we have. What else could the SC do? You see, it is about time we face the reality, and, ometimes, do away with the nonsense of the law.
Mangtse 7 years ago
Nii, don't mind the foolsoldiers.
They can't cite a single case law to support their
bogus assertions!
Only Parliament and the Courts have the exclusive power to charge/cite CONTEMPT!
Nii, don't mind the foolsoldiers.
They can't cite a single case law to support their
bogus assertions!
Only Parliament and the Courts have the exclusive power to charge/cite CONTEMPT!
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
Contempt includes defying a public authority or hold it up to ridicule and disrespect, and this does not have to happen in court, or when a specific order has been given by the court. It is this sheer ignorance that today th ... read full comment
Contempt includes defying a public authority or hold it up to ridicule and disrespect, and this does not have to happen in court, or when a specific order has been given by the court. It is this sheer ignorance that today these Montie 3 idiots can mount the airwaves the threaten the lives of the Justices.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
When it happens outside the court,it is called indirect contempt and the procedure is that a different court must hear it to comply with the rules against bias.
When it happens outside the court,it is called indirect contempt and the procedure is that a different court must hear it to comply with the rules against bias.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
You are right, however, the only difference is that indirect contempt happens not in the presence of a court, and direct contempt happens in the court room, but they both address the same issue, i.e., a behaviour that tend to ... read full comment
You are right, however, the only difference is that indirect contempt happens not in the presence of a court, and direct contempt happens in the court room, but they both address the same issue, i.e., a behaviour that tend to degrade the court or to embarrass the administration of justice. The process of law is the same.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
When it happens outside the court then the court is obliged to follow due process under the doctrine of natural justice which says that nobody can be a judge in his own case.Do you understand that.
Inside the court, the ev ... read full comment
When it happens outside the court then the court is obliged to follow due process under the doctrine of natural justice which says that nobody can be a judge in his own case.Do you understand that.
Inside the court, the evidence is already before the court so there is no need for third party testimony so they can proceed to determine it but not when it is outside the court.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
This is a matter of who should bell the cat. Why should a case that would eventually end up in SC on appeal, where the Justices are the plaintiff start from the lower court. You need some convincing to do.
This is a matter of who should bell the cat. Why should a case that would eventually end up in SC on appeal, where the Justices are the plaintiff start from the lower court. You need some convincing to do.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
What do you suggest the justices do, Kwaku Asare? Do you expect SC to defer the case to the politicians for trial?
It is unintelligent to criticize a properly constituted democratic institution without offering any alterna ... read full comment
What do you suggest the justices do, Kwaku Asare? Do you expect SC to defer the case to the politicians for trial?
It is unintelligent to criticize a properly constituted democratic institution without offering any alternate approach available available to the Justices of the Supreme Court. Tell the reading public what better approach should take to handle the Montie 3 threats to their lives. We are all waiting, Professor!
It is this kind of incendiary and inflammatory comments toward our democratic institutions that allow bozos and backward elements of society to mount the airwaves to threaten the most distinguished men and women in society. I thought you were smart enough to know that an attack on our democratic institutions is an attack on Ghana's Constitution that gave birth to them. No doubt, you have inalienable right to criticize these institutions, but you must do so in intelligent way - i.e., give the alternate approach the Justices could have explored in handling the threats by Montie 3.
Hey, Smart Professor Kwaku Asare, we are waiting, tell us the proper way the Supreme Court could have handled the threats by Montie 3.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
The alternative approach is as simple as ABC.The sc should have deferred the case to a lower court since it was not a direct contempt but an indirect one.
That will give the culprits an opportunity to either defend the cas ... read full comment
The alternative approach is as simple as ABC.The sc should have deferred the case to a lower court since it was not a direct contempt but an indirect one.
That will give the culprits an opportunity to either defend the case or appeal against the decision the sc arrived at or the sentence.
By arrogating the case to itself, they became the investigator, prosecutor and judge at the same time.This is against the doctrine of natural justice the sc judges must know that.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
Is the lower court not part of Department of Justice? Where would an appeal end up - at Mahama's office or an Appeals Court? Use your head, my brother!
It is amazing how Ghanaians take serious issues for granted. Instead ... read full comment
Is the lower court not part of Department of Justice? Where would an appeal end up - at Mahama's office or an Appeals Court? Use your head, my brother!
It is amazing how Ghanaians take serious issues for granted. Instead of declaring war on the riffraff who assail the properly constituted democratic institutions, here we are dabbling pure gibberish anecdotes.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
At least the right of appeal is guaranteed under the lower courts.No one is saying that the accuse might be acquitted in the lower court but at they have been given a fighting chance and if it should go all the way to the sc ... read full comment
At least the right of appeal is guaranteed under the lower courts.No one is saying that the accuse might be acquitted in the lower court but at they have been given a fighting chance and if it should go all the way to the sc then no one will say the sc had been its own investigator ,prosecutor and judge.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
What difference does it make, whether SC or the lower court - it is the same Judiciary. There will be due process both of SC and the lower court. Unless you want to argue that there was no due process of the law, which in tha ... read full comment
What difference does it make, whether SC or the lower court - it is the same Judiciary. There will be due process both of SC and the lower court. Unless you want to argue that there was no due process of the law, which in that case you will be wrong because there was due process of law.
Okonko Palm 7 years ago
Reason my friend,there is a reason why cases start from the lower courts to the higher court.
You just don't get up and go and file a case at the sc because that is where you want to start from.The reason for that mainly i ... read full comment
Reason my friend,there is a reason why cases start from the lower courts to the higher court.
You just don't get up and go and file a case at the sc because that is where you want to start from.The reason for that mainly is the appeal process as is guaranteed under the constitution.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
I know there is reason cases are heard in the lower courts and progress through the legal rang. We have deputy judges and judges who hear cases in the lower courts, and we have Justices who hear cases at Court of Appeals and ... read full comment
I know there is reason cases are heard in the lower courts and progress through the legal rang. We have deputy judges and judges who hear cases in the lower courts, and we have Justices who hear cases at Court of Appeals and SC. The process of law is the same at all levels in the judicial system.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 7 years ago
Azar, whilst I respect your consistency on this matter particularly your legal argument on contempt of court vis-sa-vis freedom of speech and free press, I don't think the answer to this abuse lies in a presidential pardon fo ... read full comment
Azar, whilst I respect your consistency on this matter particularly your legal argument on contempt of court vis-sa-vis freedom of speech and free press, I don't think the answer to this abuse lies in a presidential pardon for a number of reasons. First, is the risk of such pardon being seen as undermining the Judiciary. Second, it could be regarded by the Judiciary as the Executive taking them on and could start a turf war between the two arms of government. A war the Executive cannot win. Third, in an election year, such an executive pardon will be too party political. Fourth, Mahama is in a very weak position with lots of problems including dumsor. Why would he take on an issue which will at best, worsen his plight? Last but not the least, NDC is regarded as anti judiciary or have disregard for the rule of law. A presidential pardon generated by pressure from NDC grassroots will only confirm such negative views. For the above reasons, I subscribe to the views expressed by Tony Lithur that there should be no presidential pardon. The mischief could be cured by both the Executive and the Legislature through primary legislation.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago
Threatening to kill or rape is a criminal offence, not free speech.
Threatening to kill or rape is a criminal offence, not free speech.
Kwadwo 7 years ago
Professor, what procedural rule prevents the Supreme Court from exercising original jurisdiction on a contemptuous claim directed at the same Court? Are suggesting the case should be handled by a lower? What if that court's r ... read full comment
Professor, what procedural rule prevents the Supreme Court from exercising original jurisdiction on a contemptuous claim directed at the same Court? Are suggesting the case should be handled by a lower? What if that court's ruling is appealed? Where will the case ultimately end up for final resolution. Are you forgetting that these guys insulted the entire judiciary and would have been severely dealt with by any Court in Ghana given what happened in the 80's to the judiciary under the Rawlings? Common sense should tell you that even in our customary laws, a chief will excercise jurisdiction in a case when he is insulted to punish the culprit. You views on this matter shows why most law professors are not good lawyers. Da yie wae.
doctor vim 7 years ago
Sorry Kwaku you are trying hard to justify your mistake of coming too early. They were not convicted for threatening the judges. That was for the attorney general. They were convicted for trying to influence the judgement wit ... read full comment
Sorry Kwaku you are trying hard to justify your mistake of coming too early. They were not convicted for threatening the judges. That was for the attorney general. They were convicted for trying to influence the judgement with threats. This is not tyrrany. For the first time you tried to support the NDC but it failed. They are bad news.
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SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM BANKU, MR BEAUTIFUL, ETC ETC... ...
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You have no understanding of what you just read, hence the rubbish you have written here for an answer. It's obviously above your thinking and understanding.
KILL JUDGES AND TURN GHANA INTO A JUNGLE SO THAT ANY BUFFOON CAN MARRY LADY JUDGES LIKE THE MUNTIE 3 ENVISIONED EH?.....POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IGNORANT AND BUFFOONS SO THAT WE CAN BE MANIPULATED LIKE AKUA DONKOR, BUKOM B ...
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SC SINGING A"KNOWN STUPIDITY VOICE"
Prof Asare what law prescribes penalty
for someone who annoys the President?
Why do you give analogies that are not equal? n the contempt of court analogy the law actually exists. But no law exists to allow those who abuse ...
read full comment
Can you believe Ghana's celebrated "Law Prof"
spewing speculative and bullcrap "analogies"
in matters of such trial importance?
He cannot cite a single case FACT to debunk the powers inherent in giving Judges and Legisla ...
read full comment
Ofosuwaa, do you sincerely belief in your heart of hearts (if yours is not a farting ass rather than a heart) that the judges have 'killed' their killing by incarcerating the famous montie 3. You would be a big fool if you th ...
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Buffoonery of a a so-called professor!Let someone threaten to kill you and take as a joke but rather go about dabbling in big big legal grammar. Coconut head professor!
IF THEY ARE COMMITING ADULTERY THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES IF THEY ARE SMOKING WEE THEY DO NOT THINK OF QUENCEQUENCES AFTER ALL ALL DIE BE DIE AND FOR SUCH PEOPLE THE BIBLE SAYS BECAREFUL OF THEM
GOD PLEASE FOR JUST ONE WEEK GIVE THIS NOBLE AND HUMBLE PRESIDENT THE HEART OF KIM JO UN THE KOREAN PRESIDENT AND LET HIM SHOW SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE THAT HE HAS POWERS.
Hasahahaaa........Ghana is ruled by thieves in government..... Yet they seek reelection.....hahaaaaa.....SO JUDGES SHD SIT ALOOF IN ORDER TO SUFFER ANOTHER BOUT OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING EH?......POLITICIANS PREFER US TO BE IG ...
read full comment
Kwaku, I have always like and followed your legal arguments but this one paa de it is hard to sell. Are you suggesting that the action of these individuals did not threaten the future decisions of the court? which I think is ...
read full comment
The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case.
...
read full comment
So, what about Contempt of Parliament?
Do the MPs ask for police, prosecutors, judges
or AG before an offender is cited?
The discretion allows judges to pre-detrmine where punishment will be more than 6-months, and if ...
read full comment
"The only time when the sc can be its own investigator,prosecutor and judge at the same time is when the contempt happens directly in the court or when there is a specific order by the court imposing a blackout of the case". ...
read full comment
The twist and turns, the legal acrobatics and gymnastics cannt take away the powers which the Constitution confer on the Justices.The SC did the right thing; they acted within the the ambit of their powers, and the law. I thi ...
read full comment
Nii, don't mind the foolsoldiers.
They can't cite a single case law to support their
bogus assertions!
Only Parliament and the Courts have the exclusive power to charge/cite CONTEMPT!
Contempt includes defying a public authority or hold it up to ridicule and disrespect, and this does not have to happen in court, or when a specific order has been given by the court. It is this sheer ignorance that today th ...
read full comment
When it happens outside the court,it is called indirect contempt and the procedure is that a different court must hear it to comply with the rules against bias.
You are right, however, the only difference is that indirect contempt happens not in the presence of a court, and direct contempt happens in the court room, but they both address the same issue, i.e., a behaviour that tend to ...
read full comment
When it happens outside the court then the court is obliged to follow due process under the doctrine of natural justice which says that nobody can be a judge in his own case.Do you understand that.
Inside the court, the ev ...
read full comment
This is a matter of who should bell the cat. Why should a case that would eventually end up in SC on appeal, where the Justices are the plaintiff start from the lower court. You need some convincing to do.
What do you suggest the justices do, Kwaku Asare? Do you expect SC to defer the case to the politicians for trial?
It is unintelligent to criticize a properly constituted democratic institution without offering any alterna ...
read full comment
The alternative approach is as simple as ABC.The sc should have deferred the case to a lower court since it was not a direct contempt but an indirect one.
That will give the culprits an opportunity to either defend the cas ...
read full comment
Is the lower court not part of Department of Justice? Where would an appeal end up - at Mahama's office or an Appeals Court? Use your head, my brother!
It is amazing how Ghanaians take serious issues for granted. Instead ...
read full comment
At least the right of appeal is guaranteed under the lower courts.No one is saying that the accuse might be acquitted in the lower court but at they have been given a fighting chance and if it should go all the way to the sc ...
read full comment
What difference does it make, whether SC or the lower court - it is the same Judiciary. There will be due process both of SC and the lower court. Unless you want to argue that there was no due process of the law, which in tha ...
read full comment
Reason my friend,there is a reason why cases start from the lower courts to the higher court.
You just don't get up and go and file a case at the sc because that is where you want to start from.The reason for that mainly i ...
read full comment
I know there is reason cases are heard in the lower courts and progress through the legal rang. We have deputy judges and judges who hear cases in the lower courts, and we have Justices who hear cases at Court of Appeals and ...
read full comment
Azar, whilst I respect your consistency on this matter particularly your legal argument on contempt of court vis-sa-vis freedom of speech and free press, I don't think the answer to this abuse lies in a presidential pardon fo ...
read full comment
Threatening to kill or rape is a criminal offence, not free speech.
Professor, what procedural rule prevents the Supreme Court from exercising original jurisdiction on a contemptuous claim directed at the same Court? Are suggesting the case should be handled by a lower? What if that court's r ...
read full comment
Sorry Kwaku you are trying hard to justify your mistake of coming too early. They were not convicted for threatening the judges. That was for the attorney general. They were convicted for trying to influence the judgement wit ...
read full comment