Africa-Press – Ghana. The Constitutional Review Committee report has recommended the amendment of Article 126 to remove references to “lower courts”.
It proposed that instead, Article 126 should read: “The Judiciary shall comprise the Superior Courts, comprising the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court; the Circuit and District Courts, and such other courts or tribunals as Parliament may by law establish”.
The report said similarly, all references to “Lower Courts” in the Constitution should be reviewed.
With regards to regional tribunals, the Committee recommended that the regional tribunals should be disestablished from the Constitution.
The Committee noted that the High Court has been handling the caseload of the regional tribunals.
It called for the expansion of the jurisdiction of the Circuits to take on some of the cases that the Regional Tribunals would ordinarily hear,” the report said.
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