The Acting Chief Justice, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, has issued a sweeping directive centralising the assignment and scheduling of all newly filed cases and applications in Ghana’s superior courts.
In a circular dated April 23 and signed by the Deputy Judicial Secretary, registrars of the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court have been instructed to forward all fresh filings to the office of the Acting Chief Justice for appropriate action.
The directive mandates that any new case or application brought before these courts must be routed through the Chief Justice’s office for assignment or empanelling, particularly in instances involving multiple courts.
Additionally, the authority to fix hearing dates for such matters has now been centralised, with the Chief Justice’s office overseeing the scheduling process.
The memo clearly states that this new directive supersedes all existing procedures on case assignments and court listings.