{
  "id": 564454,
  "title": "Legal vacation doesn’t stop judges from hearing cases – Chief Justice",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/legal-vacation-doesnt-stop-judges-from-hearing-cases-chief-justice",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T12:26:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/legal-vacation-doesnt-stop-judges-from-hearing-cases-chief-justice/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has rejected claims that lawyers can decline to proceed with cases simply because they have been scheduled during the legal vacation. According to the Chief Justice, a judge who is available and ready to hear a case cannot be prevented from proceeding merely because a lawyer has made personal plans during […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Adom Online",
        "title": "Srem-Sai writes: Legal vacations and trials; why the GBA President is in error",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/srem-sai-writes-legal-vacations-and-trials-why-the-gba-president-is",
        "published": "2026-08-11T12:19:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "3News",
        "title": "Legal Vacation: Our courts don't shutdown, they scale down — Srem-Sai",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/legal-vacation-our-courts-dont-shutdown-they-scale-down-srem-sai",
        "published": "2026-08-11T13:27:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}