When the Bench Speaks Like the Bar: Baffoe-Bonnie's Verdict on Government Performance Tests the Limits of Ghana's 1992 Settlement
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When the Bench Speaks Like the Bar: Baffoe-Bonnie's Verdict on Government Performance Tests the Limits of Ghana's 1992 Settlement

Daniel Kojo Hollie
Published September 14, 20269 min read

The Chief Justice's praise for SSNIT and MIIF, and his pointed question about "what we have been doing in the past eight years," was defensible as opinion but costly as precedent. Measured against his own predecessors and against chief justices in Washington, London, Ottawa and Canberra, the episode exposes a structural gap in Ghana's constitutional design: robust guarantees of institutional independence, but no settled convention on what a sitting Chief Justice should and should not say in public.

Published by Benson Arthur
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