Cocoa Affairs Courts to resume sitting

Accra, May 9, GNA - Sittings at the Cocoa Affairs Courts, which were suspended following the collapse of the structure last month, would resume on Wednesday, May 10, the Judicial Service announced on Tuesday. The sittings of the Courts, also known as the 28th February Road Courts, would, however, resume at the section of the structure that has been declared safe.

Other courts that could not sit at the Cocoa Affairs would be temporarily relocated at courts outside the premises, the statement said.

It said the directive was a result of the presentation of a report by a team of experts made up of representatives of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Directorate of Engineering Service of the Ghana Armed Forces, the Ghana National Fire Service, PWD-Prestige and Avangarde Designs, an architectural engineering firm, which inspected the premises of the court structure.

The statement listed where some courts had been temporarily relocated.

High Court 12 Relocated to High Court 13, Cocoa Affairs and to sit in the afternoon High Court 15 To sit at High Court 20, Regional Tribunal and to sit in the afternoon High Court 16 To sit at High Court 9, Cocoa Affairs and to sit in the afternoon High Court 14 To sit at High Court 21 Regional Tribunal premises Circuit Court 1 To sit at 3rd Floor, Stool Lands Commission, near Workers' College Circuit Court 2 Relocated to Community Centre, Court B Circuit Court 3 Relocated at Court House behind Baiden Powell Memorial Hall Circuit Court 4 To sit at 2nd Floor of Stool Lands Commission, near Workers' College Circuit Court 5 Relocated at Circuit Court 9, Cocoa Affairs Circuit Court 7 Relocated at High Court 17, Cocoa Affairs