Supreme Court of Ghana

GPTKB entity

Properties (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf legal case
gptkbp:appeal gptkb:Court_of_Appeal
gptkbp:attendance gptkb:President_of_Ghana
gptkb:Parliament_of_Ghana
gptkbp:commander Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
gptkbp:country gptkb:Ghana
gptkbp:decidedBy binding on all lower courts
gptkbp:established 1992
gptkbp:function Dispute resolution
Judicial review
Final appellate court
Interpretation_of_the_Constitution
gptkbp:governedBy Chief Justice
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Accra
gptkbp:historicalSignificance gptkb:First_Supreme_Court_under_the_1992_Constitution
Reformed judiciary
Strengthened democracy
Promoted rule of law
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Supreme Court of Ghana
gptkbp:judges Regulations
Acts of Parliament
Executive actions
gptkbp:jurisdiction Civil matters
Constitutional matters
Criminal matters
gptkbp:legalStatus Common law
Case law
Statutory interpretation
Judicial decisions
gptkbp:location gptkb:Ghana
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Abdulai_v._Attorney_General
gptkb:Ghana_Bar_Association_v._Attorney_General
gptkb:Ghana_Telecom_v._Attorney_General
gptkb:William_Atuguba
gptkb:Ghana_National_Petroleum_Corporation_v._Agyekum
gptkb:Sophia_Akuffo
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
Nana_Addo_Dankwa_Akufo-Addo_v._John_Mahama
Amadu_Tanko
Gertrude_Torkornoo
Jones_Victor_Mawulorm_Dotse
Nene_Amegatcher
Samuel_Marful-Sau
Yaw_Appau
gptkbp:numberOfStudents 13
gptkbp:role Arbiter of disputes
Protector of fundamental human rights
Guardian_of_the_Constitution
gptkbp:website www.judicial.gov.gh