Publication: Constitutional Review
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CRS 4 – To Cap or Not to Cap: The Supreme Court of Ghana
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD). Ghana’s 1992 Constitution sets no ceiling to the number of Justices that may be appointed to the Supreme Court. Article 128(1) only prescribes a minimum number of nine Justices in addition to the Chief Justice. This…
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CRS 9 – Chiefs and traditional authorities and their role in the democratic order and governance
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The writer, the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin, makes a vigorous case for the chieftancy institution’s unchallenged and inherently democratic role, its structure and stabilizing role in Ghanaian societies prior to the imposition of colonial rule in…
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CRS 5 – The Panel System at the Supreme Court: Merits and Demerits
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Ghana’s 1992 Constitution stipulates in Article 128(2) that any five Justices of the Supreme Court may sit on a case. To review its own decision, the Constitution sets the minimum number at seven. This has attracted criticism. The first being that a decision of a panel of the Supreme Court does not carry the weight…
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CRS 6 – Rethinking decentralization and local government in Ghana: Proposals for amendment
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Kwamena Ahwoi’s paper, which is a distillation of two separate papers that he presented to the Constitutional Review Commission and The Institute of Economic Affair’s ‘Ghana Political Parties Programme’ respectively, identifies twelve areas of Ghana’s local government and decentralization system for critical analysis. It ends with a recommendation that the majority of the identified areas…
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CRS 8 – Natural resource management in Ghana: a case for constitutional amendment
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme(G-RAP). This publication is a product of a research undertaken at The IEA as part of an ongoing Oil and Gas Project. Mining (mineral extraction) in Ghana has a long history and that history is a love-hate one.…
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CRS 10 – The anti-corruption mandates of the CHRAJ and the SFO: a duplication of functions
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). In recognition of corruption as a major obstacle to development, Ghana has over the past 18 years of the current constitutional dispensation initiated some useful institutional reforms and created a number of new constitutional and statutory watchdog…