{"id":253083,"date":"2016-09-29T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T06:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253083"},"modified":"2016-09-29T06:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T06:40:46","slug":"judges-deserve-better-pay-emile-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253083","title":{"rendered":"Judges deserve better pay – Emile Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ),\u00a0Justice Emile Short\u00a0has backed calls by judges for an upward review of their remunerations and conditions of service.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court judge, William Atuguba, who spoke on behalf of the Judges at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana on Wednesday, demanded that judges be given some extra allowances\u00a0to compensate them for their efforts at ensuring justice in the country.<\/p>\n

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Justice Atuguba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These demands came days after over 150 lower court judges threatened to abandon<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>the courts if their demands for a 10 percent salary increase was not adhered to.<\/p>\n

Salaries and conditions of service inadequate<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justice Short admitted that such calls were unusual but still warranted given \u201cthe enormous responsibility that judges have\u201d as he maintained that \u201ctheir salaries and conditions of service are quite inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that the need for such a review becomes more apparent when judges retire as they now \u201chave to pay for you own medical bills, you don\u2019t have any security, and you don\u2019t have any other facility.<\/p>\n

Thus he said, \u201cI think these allowances which they are calling for are in the right direction and they should be consolidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree that it is unusual for a judge of his standing to make this call in public but I don\u2019t think it is improper. I think if the judges feel they are not adequately paid, they have the right to make that call in public,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ),\u00a0Justice Emile Short\u00a0has backed calls by judges for an upward review of their remunerations and conditions of service. Supreme Court judge, William Atuguba, who spoke on behalf of the Judges at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Magistrates and Judges of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":253087,"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":[10,11],"tags":[3,12143,12144],"class_list":["post-253083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-justice-emile-short","tag-william-atuguba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253083","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}