BENJAMIN YAW OSEI V. THE CHIEF JUSTICE, THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL & THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

JUDGMENT

MAJORITY OPINION 

PWAMANG JSC: 

The Plaintiff/appellant/respondent, herein after referred to as “the Respondent”, until his removal from office on 7th December 2015, served as a Circuit Court Judge in Kumasi. His dismissal arose from a petition submitted to the Honourable Chief Justice by an investigative agency called TigereyePi, in which it was alleged that the Respondent had accepted from their investigators sums of GHS500.00 and GHS400.00 at different places in order to influence his judgment in a case: Republic v. Kwaku Boakye, which he was before him. The first amount was said to have been paid to him in his chambers and the second at his private residence in Kumasi, both for the purpose of influencing him to acquit the accused person in the case. 

The petition was forwarded to the Judicial Council who after deliberating on it decided to suspend the Respondent and refer the matter to the disciplinary committee of the Council to investigate. The Respondent was written to by …