[ 2017-05-12 ]

Sophia Akuffo

Sophia Akuffo is Ghana’s new Chief Justice
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has settled
on Justice Sophia Akuffo as the new Chief Justice
of Ghana, Starrfmonline.com can confirm.

An official announcement is expected today after
consultation with the Council of State and
approval by Parliament.

According to Article 144 (1) of Ghana’s 1992
Constitution: “The Chief Justice shall be
appointed by the President acting in consultation
with the Council of State and with the approval of
Parliament.”

The current Chief Justice who has been in charge
of Ghana’s Judicial Service for a decade
Georgina Theodora Wood (appointed June 2007) bows
out of office in June 2017.

Justice Akuffo becomes Ghana’s second female
Chief Justice after Wood.

Profile

Sophia A.B. Akuffo has been a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Ghana for the past two decades.

Sophia Akuffo trained as a lawyer under Nana
Akufo-Addo who had her Masters in Law (LLM) from
the Havard University in the United States.

She has been a member of the Governing Committee
of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute
and the Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute
Resolution Task Force.

In January 2006 she was elected one of the first
judges of the African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights initially elected for two years,
she was subsequently re-elected until 2014 and is
at present serving as Vice-President of the
Court.

She has written The Application of Information &
Communication Technology in the Judicial Process
– the Ghanaian Experience, a presentation to the
African Judicial Network Ghana (2002).

One of her famous cases is when she presided over
the Montie 3 in 2016.

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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