The Judicial Secretary petitioned the disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) to investigate the Bolgatanga East MP’s comments which the court describes as defamatory to the justices. Speaking on Joy News’ Newsfile, monitored by GhanaWeb, Professor Kwaku Asare said Dr Ayine’s subjective view does not claim that the judiciary lacks independence. Are we then going to refer 10 million Ghanaians to the general legal council to investigate?. Prof. Kwaku Asare believes that the legal profession welcomes criticisms and Dr Ayine’s GCL referral “unprecedented, unnecessary, unfortunate, unwise and quite frankly unjust”. He further said that some of the harshest criticisms made against judges come from judges themselves.

Source: GhanaWeb June 05, 2021 15:45 UTC