Supreme Court dismisses Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s injunction against Vacation Court trials

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah seeking to halt selected criminal trials during the ongoing legal vacation. According to Adom Online, Justice Gabriel Pwamang, sitting as a single judge of the Supreme Court, dismissed the interlocutory injunction application on Friday, August 21, 2026.

Oppong Nkrumah had filed a substantive suit at the Supreme Court challenging administrative warrants issued by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie directing selected High Court judges to continue hearing criminal cases during the legal vacation. MyJoyOnline Ghana reports that the ruling clears the way for the affected criminal trials to continue while the substantive case challenging the constitutionality of the Chief Justice’s administrative warrants remains pending.

The legal vacation runs from August 1 to September 30. Oppong Nkrumah argues that the directive violates Articles 17(1), (2), and 296(a) and (b) of the 1992 Constitution, particularly because it singles out certain criminal cases for continuation during the vacation. He contends that the arrangement amounts to selective justice, as reported by Adom Online and MyJoyOnline Ghana.

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