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Effect of proceedings conducted by the Executive Council of a Traditional Council, rather than the Judicial Committee

Effect of the whole corpus of a traditional council numbering 29 or 35 members hearing and determining a chieftaincy matter

Extent of the jurisdiction of the Traditional Council

Jurisdiction of the Traditional Council in matters affecting chieftaincy

Procedure for commencing an action in a traditional council

The exclusive jurisdiction of a traditional council

The principle that only the judicial committee of the Traditional Council has the right to refer a contempt matter in a case that is pending before it to the High Court

Whether a chieftaincy cause or matter can be heard and determined by three or five persons of the traditional council who constitute the judicial committee of the council

Whether a judicial committee of a traditional council must consist of five members in order to have power to hear and determine chieftaincy disputes

Whether a traditional council can change customary law

Whether a Traditional Council is synonymous with a paramount chief

Whether a traditional state council when performing its customary duties is a creature of statute

Whether or not a chief being a lawful member of the traditional council ought to be sworn again when appointed a member of its judicial committee

Whether the Kumasi Traditional Council has exclusive original jurisdiction over great oath cases

Whether the prerogative writs will issue against a Traditional Council sitting in its full complement

Whether the traditional council can destool a queenmother

Whether there is a presumption that an assembly of chiefs is a Traditional Council lawfully and properly created and brought into being

Whether traditional councils can determine a legal matter

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