{"id":17669,"date":"2026-09-03T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17669"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:07:48","slug":"unnecessary-supreme-court-appeals-are-delaying-justice-sophia-akuffo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17669","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Supreme Court appeals are delaying justice \u2013 Sophia Akuffo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u00a0 Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has called for tighter limits on appeals to the Supreme <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citinewsroom.com\/2026\/09\/unnecessary-supreme-court-appeals-are-delaying-justice-sophia-akuffo\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">Court<\/span><\/a>, arguing that unnecessary interlocutory appeals are contributing to delays in the administration of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Speaking on Channel One TV\u2019s The Point of View on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, she said some cases reach the Supreme Court even though the substantive matters remain pending before the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cSometimes there are also some matters which come to the Supreme Court only on what is called interlocutory appeal, which is so unnecessary and shouldn\u2019t have come to the Supreme Court because the case itself might still be in the High Court,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to Sophia Akuffo, such appeals can take years to determine, further delaying the resolution of the substantive cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She therefore argued that more cases should end at the Court of Appeal, particularly those that do not raise new or significant constitutional issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of other matters should end in the Court of Appeals if they don\u2019t raise new issues or very sensitive constitutional issues,\u201d she said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has called for tighter limits on appeals to the Supreme \u00a0Court, arguing that unnecessary interlocutory appeals are contributing to delays in the administration of justice. Speaking on Channel One TV\u2019s The Point of View on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, she said some cases reach the Supreme Court even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":17670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3718],"tags":[5550,4427,1236],"class_list":["post-17669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-legal","tag-delayed-justice","tag-sophia-akuffo","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17672,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions\/17672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}