Law Week in Ghana

At the law week celebration held at Ho in the Volta region, President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that Government has, since his assumption of office, introduced a number of policy measures to help bridge the technology gap in the administration of justice.

“We have launched the e-justice system, which is designed to leverage technology in the delivery of justice, and we are also addressing the challenge posed by the inadequate numbers of courts in various parts of the country, resulting in citizens travelling long distances to gain access to courts, and, thereby, weakening the rule of law,” he said.

Through the Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, Government is constructing one hundred (100) new courts and bungalows for Judges in all sixteen (16) Regions of the country. Sixty per cent (60%) of these courts and bungalows have been completed and will be commissioned before the start of the legal year in October. The remaining forty per cent (40%) will be duly completed and commissioned by the end of the first quarter of 2023.

“Six new Regional High Courts are also being constructed in the newly created regions, i.e., Ahafo, Bono East, North East, Oti, Savannah and Western North. Three of the Courts, that is those in Ahafo, Bono East and Oti Regions, will be completed and ready for commissioning, again, before October.

The other three, that is those in North East, Savannah and Western North, which are at eighty per cent (80%) completion, will be ready for commissioning by the end of the first quarter of 2023,” he said.

A new, modern Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, together with twenty (20) townhouses and a guesthouse to serve as permanent residences for Court of Appeal Judges based in Kumasi, who will be mandated to handle appeals from the northern sector of the country, will also be completed and commissioned before the end of October.