A photo collage of Dr Kwaku Ansa-Asare (L) and Gertrude Torkornoo (R)
Former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Dr Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has criticised former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo’s latest legal challenge against her removal from office, describing her actions as “frivolous” and “vexatious.”
In an interview on Joy News and monitored by Ghanaweb on Friday, October 17, 2025, Ansa-Asare said Torkornoo’s conduct reflects emotional imbalance and immaturity and stressed that her challenge has no legal weight under the Constitution.
“She’s only demonstrating that when she was appointed, she was immature. And because she was immature. The grounds are frivolous; the entire acting is vexatious and frivolous”, he remarked.
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“The case is dead and perfect. And nothing she does will make the dead case rise from its grave.
“She must realise that the seat of the Chief Justice is not a fixed traditional stool that the occupant can claim as a right.
“Once the Pwamang Committee has submitted its report and the president has accepted the report and the recommendations contained in it, they cease to be primary findings; they now become the decision of the president and the decision of the President was taken in accordance with the Constitution,” Ansa-Asare noted.
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The development comes as the Appointments Committee of Parliament prepares to vet Justice Baffoe-Bonnie, who has been nominated as the successor to the former Chief Justice.
The former CJ, who was removed following the findings of the Pwamang Committee on petitions of misconduct, is now seeking to have the court set aside all proceedings conducted by the Committee.
She is also requesting that the Presidential Warrant that formalised her removal be declared unlawful, null, void and of no effect.
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