The judicial system is beyond criticism, there is room for improvement – GBA

Mr Yaw Acheampong Boafo, the National President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), says the judiciary is beyond criticism and there is always room for improvement.

However, he said the appropriate tools for correction and improvement should be through constructive criticism and superior arguments, not statements and actions that attack their personalities, undermine their independence, taint the administration of justice and threaten their very security and safety.

Mr Acheampong said this during the 40th anniversary memorial service of the three Supreme Court judges who were assassinated in June 1982.

Justices Fred Poku Sarkodee, Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong and Major Sam Acquah, a retired military officer, were abducted during curfew and killed at the Bundase military training ground, 50 kilometers east of Accra, on 30 June 1982.

President Nana Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia joined the Martyrs Day memorial service held at the Christ the King Church in Accra.

Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah; Attorney General Godfrey Dame Yeboah; GBA President Mr. Yaw Acheampong Boafo was present.

Others were Justices Nene AO ​​Amegatcher, Mariama Owusu, Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu and other High Court judges.

There were also members of the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, former and current GBA chiefs and families of deceased judges.

Their biographies were read by Justice Jerome Kwasi Anokye Gyimah, Madam Justice Abena A. Oppong and Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu, Judges of the High Court.

Source: GNA