The committee investigating allegations of corruption against 22 judges will sit today to continue its work.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”ze3d0mLFlqVm8pcKoubjy9hL5Etk3WQG”]Their maiden meeting last Tuesday was called off due to the absence of a member of the committee.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for some of the magistrates are however pushing for an indefinite suspension of their meetings until a suit pending in court is determined.<\/p>\n
Some of the magistrates have filed a writ at the High Court questioning the legality of the process.<\/p>\n
14 out of the 22 accused judges, in their writ said their \u201csuspension is in bad faith,\u201d and that the court should declare the suspension \u201cnull and void.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chief Justice set up the committee to investigate allegations of corruption against the magistrates following the expos\u00e9 by investigative journalist Anas Aremyaw Anas.<\/p>\n
Another judge sues Anas, AG\u00a0<\/strong> Justice Mohammed Habib Logoh in a writ filed on Tuesday, is seeking 10 reliefs, key among them being a declaration that the audio-visual recording is unlawful and cannot be used in determining the outcome of the investigations by the judicial council.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The committee investigating allegations of corruption against 22 judges will sit today to continue its work. [contextly_sidebar id=”ze3d0mLFlqVm8pcKoubjy9hL5Etk3WQG”]Their maiden meeting last Tuesday was called off due to the absence of a member of the committee. Lawyers for some of the magistrates are however pushing for an indefinite suspension of their meetings until a suit pending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":150077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-152690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnother judge amongst the 12 high court judges accused of taking bribes in the latest investigative piece by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has filed a suit at the Accra Fast Track Court seeking to among others, challenge the legality of the impeachment proceedings against him.<\/p>\n