Ghana’s Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, is scheduled to deliver her ‘valedictory’ judgment on Wednesday, 18 December 2019.
It concerns the Martin Kpebu v. the Attorney General case pending before the Supreme Court.
The case is to determine whether security agencies in Ghana can take out weekends and public holidays in calculating the 48-hour rule which allows them to detain persons or suspects for a maximum of 48 hours before arraignment.
Chief Justice Akuffo is due to retire from the Bench and the judiciary on Friday, 20 December 2019.
Justice Akuffo was elevated to the Supreme Court in November 1995 by then-President Jerry John Rawlings. She joined the Ghana Bar Association on 2 October 1975.
She was sworn into office as Chief Justice by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 19 June 2017 at a ceremony at the Banquet Hall in Accra.
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