Obfuscation by lawyers is confusing the public over judicial corruption

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  Excellent analyses of the law and facts.
  
  Thanks.

  Excellent analyses of the law and facts.
  
  Thanks.

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• Ghanaman THE REAL 10 years ago

  Thanks for your much appreciated and timely article, Mr Duodu. The utterances of some of the defence lawyers involved is so crass one wonders the level of education they're given at law school! I hope they'll learn some lesso ...
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  Thanks for your much appreciated and timely article, Mr Duodu. The utterances of some of the defence lawyers involved is so crass one wonders the level of education they're given at law school! I hope they'll learn some lessons from this experience, as the public is doing, for their own future careers because they'll not be allowed to put dust in our eyes by their empty verbal jingoism!! Well done, Sir.

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• Osu Klottey 10 years ago

  Corruption in the Judiciary can and will never stop,while exchange of gifts is a deep rooted Ghanaian culture,reciprocate is often what is turn as corruption,its everywhere in our society and institutions,Customs,Police,Army, ...
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  Corruption in the Judiciary can and will never stop,while exchange of gifts is a deep rooted Ghanaian culture,reciprocate is often what is turn as corruption,its everywhere in our society and institutions,Customs,Police,Army,Parliament,Chieftaincy,Ministries,Businesses etc,it starts with small gifts

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  Thank you for the article. Good input to fight this even harder! People must wake up!

  Thank you for the article. Good input to fight this even harder! People must wake up!

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• Godd 10 years ago

  I concur with everything said in this article. There should be no obfuscation in this case. The public has already been too long confused. We want a clear and swift prosecution of the justices, then we can turn on to other th ...
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  I concur with everything said in this article. There should be no obfuscation in this case. The public has already been too long confused. We want a clear and swift prosecution of the justices, then we can turn on to other things in the fight against corruption.
  
  Well said, Cameron Duodu.

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• OBINNA 10 years ago

  'I think it was sheer bravado that made the lawyer for one of the judges make a public statement that the police had suspended their investigations into a possible offence by a judge who is his client – because of represent ...
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  'I think it was sheer bravado that made the lawyer for one of the judges make a public statement that the police had suspended their investigations into a possible offence by a judge who is his client – because of representations he had made to the police on the client's behalf".
  It is not only sheer bravado but ignorance on the part of this lawyer. This case is revealing a lot of ignorance on the part of people who have studied law and are practicing law in the country - lawyers. The writer has clearly laid out the argument for the two-pronged approach to resolving this case: the administrative tract and the criminal nature of the offence, and thus the pusuit of the criminal code in determining the guilt and possible criminal prosecution of the offenders. Thank you, sir, for the eloquent explanation and hope the confused and ignorant lawyers would learn something from this. The police should continue with their constitutionally mandated work. THIS IS A CRIMINAL CASE AND THE NATION EXPECTS CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS AND CONVICTIONS.

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• Samson 10 years ago

  Bravo Cameron. Well written. The ball is in the court of the attorney general.

  Bravo Cameron. Well written. The ball is in the court of the attorney general.

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• kojo nzo ekangaki 10 years ago

  The so-called lawyers are de cause of corruption in de country

  The so-called lawyers are de cause of corruption in de country

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• nana 10 years ago

  The word "Obfuscation" describing the confusion over judicial corruption is itself confusing. How is one to understand what exactly is going on :)

  The word "Obfuscation" describing the confusion over judicial corruption is itself confusing. How is one to understand what exactly is going on :)

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• Oncho 10 years ago

  Nana, you are being pedantic. Obfuscate has a shade of meaning slightly different from confuse. U thunk the guy chose his words very carefully to express precisely what he wanted to say.

  Nana, you are being pedantic. Obfuscate has a shade of meaning slightly different from confuse. U thunk the guy chose his words very carefully to express precisely what he wanted to say.

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• Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

  As I have said many times, there is no way the country can deal with the corrupt judges without the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Constitution. The corrupt Mahama and his NDC morons are going ab ...
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  As I have said many times, there is no way the country can deal with the corrupt judges without the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Constitution. The corrupt Mahama and his NDC morons are going about this tragic event as if it is business as usual.
  
  What government would treat corruption in the judiciary as business as usual? It's only in Ghana that something as important as justice is auctioned in the market place to the highest bidder, and the government looks on. Many civilized western democracies would have declared a state of emergency and dealt with the corrupt recalcitrant judges, especially when a wholesale corruption exists in the judicial system. Because, let's face, there is not much anyone or the government can do with the Constitution in place - judges enjoy massive protection in our Constitution because of the nature of their civic responsibility.
  
  Tell the corrupt Mahama and his NDC morons to declare a state of emergency and deal with the corrupt judges. This is how you clean up a system.

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• Journo 10 years ago

  Kwabena YEBOAH WROTE:
  ...."judges enjoy massive protection in our Constitution because of the nature of their civic responsibility."
  
  This article goes, to great lengths to lay out the case demolishing the notion that j ...
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  Kwabena YEBOAH WROTE:
  ...."judges enjoy massive protection in our Constitution because of the nature of their civic responsibility."
  
  This article goes, to great lengths to lay out the case demolishing the notion that judges cannot be prosecuted for the CRIME of taking bribes, yet you are repeating that notion as if it were sacrosanct! Did you understand the article at all?
  
  Parroting the term "state of emergency" is puerile because there is no need for a state of emergency when a clear, normal route can be used to solve the problem -- as demonstrated by the writer, Occupy Ghana and others.
  
  Have you considered what could happen under your a "state of emergency?" Your beloved Mahama could probably take advantage of it to appoint his own judges! For, as you advocate, there would be no Constitution to prevent him doing so. Is that what you want?Would you like to face a General Mosquito who has been appointed as a judge under "a state of emergency"? Think before you speak, please!

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

  I was equally shocked when that lawyer said on phone that because of his letter the police had suspended criminal investigation into the bribery scandal. When did Ghana Police Force take instructions from a lawyer representin ...
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  I was equally shocked when that lawyer said on phone that because of his letter the police had suspended criminal investigation into the bribery scandal. When did Ghana Police Force take instructions from a lawyer representing a client who is being investigated by the police? It's either the police lawyers do not know the law or are sleeping on the job. The AG is also sleeping on her job because by this time she should have announced steps her department is taking to review cases tried by the corrupt judges with a view to setting aside those decisions that are not supported by either the evidence or the law or both. The reviews should go back at least six years, the time limit in civil cases for statute of limitations. This is necessary to redress any miscarriage of justice.

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