JUDGMENT
TANKO AMADU JSC
INTRODUCTION:
1. My Lords, in the exercise of judicial power vested in the Supreme Court pursuant to Article 126(4) of the 1992 Constitution, few duties laid upon the court are graver than that of pronouncing upon the validity or otherwise of the process by which the Republic may remove the very head of its Judiciary. The office of Chief Justice is a constitutional trust, held on behalf of the people of Ghana, and it is independent and immune from executive or parliamentary interference except as otherwise provided by the same Constitution which guarantees the independence of the office.
2. However, the framers of the 1992 Constitution understood that, judicial office being a public trust, where the Chief Justice or any Justice of the Superior Courts has fallen into stated misbehaviour, incompetence, or infirmity, the holder of any such judicial office may, by a process scrupulously prescribed, be removed from office. Articles 127 and 146 of the 1992 Constitution …