Bridging 2020 Election Petition -CI-99 Incompetence
By Jacob Osei Yeboah || JOY 2016/2020 Listen to article
Your Lordship, I write to you today with the compliments of Easter.
The Legal Team of JOY 2012 have made certain observations about the 2020 election petition and judgement which are summarised below:
1. That the EC s crafting and implementation of CI-127 was commendable but will need some refinement
2. That the Supreme Court Rule, CI-99, that guided the Petitioner and Bench of the Supreme Court is problematic
3. That some decisions concluded on by Justices of the Supreme Court could cause lack of faith in judicial system
The team holds that the Rules of Supreme Court, CI-99, was crafted without a complete understanding of the numerous possible outcomes of election petitions and appears incompatible with the operational role of the Electoral Commission (EC). Furthermore, the nature of Form 30 in CI-99 exceedingly limits election petitions and imposes an adversarial sys