General News of Tuesday, 22 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comDr Dominic Ayine says he constructively criticised the Chief Justice (CJ) and the other Supreme Court Justices after reading the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court on the 2020 Election Petition. “With all due respect to His Lordship, the Chief Justice, I wish to state that I stand by the opinion I expressed at the said roundtable discussion. Dr. Ayine added the Chief Justice’s petition may set a “retrogressive precedent whereby disciplinary proceedings would be used as a tool to enforce silence from the bar in the name of shielding judges from disparaging criticism by lawyers”. But the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the Chief Justice to withdraw his petition to the GLC. The party said the CJ’s petition is an attempt to “intimidate and suppress views that are at variance with his”.

Source: GhanaWeb June 22, 2021 06:22 UTC