Supreme Court of Ghana judgments
Search the rulings of Ghana's final appellate court by the issue you are arguing, read the passage in the judgment it came from, and check how later benches have treated it before you put it in a submission.
Why its rulings bind everyone below
Final appellate court
Article 129 of the 1992 Constitution makes the Supreme Court the final court of appeal in Ghana. Its decisions bind the Court of Appeal, the High Court and every lower court.
Original constitutional jurisdiction
Under articles 2 and 130 the Court alone hears actions on the interpretation or enforcement of the Constitution, and questions referred to it by other courts.
Supervisory jurisdiction
Article 132 gives the Court supervisory jurisdiction over all courts and adjudicating authorities, exercised through certiorari, prohibition, mandamus and quo warranto.
Departing from itself
The Court is not bound by its own previous decisions and may depart from them where it considers it right to do so, so the sequence of rulings on a point matters as much as any one of them.
Authorities practitioners return to
Tuffuor v Attorney-General
[1980] GLR 637
The Constitution as a living document to be read as a whole — still the starting point for constitutional interpretation arguments.
New Patriotic Party v Attorney-General (31st December case)
[1993-94] 2 GLR 35
Enforcement of the Constitution against public expenditure on an unconstitutional observance; foundational on article 2 standing.
Republic v High Court (Fast Track Division), Ex parte Electoral Commission
[2005-2006] SCGLR 514
The reach of supervisory jurisdiction and when certiorari lies for an error of law on the face of the record.
Presidential election petition rulings
2013 and 2021
The evidential standard, burden of proof and pleading requirements in an election petition under article 64.
Verify every citation against the official report or the certified judgment before filing. Reported citations differ between the GLR and SCGLR series.
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How case law search works
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The 1992 Constitution
Articles 2, 129, 130 and 132 in the context they are litigated.
Ghana Law Reports
GLR, SCGLR and how to cite an unreported decision correctly.
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