Chief Justice Converts Courtrooms Into Vacation Destinations for Selected Judges

ACCRA — Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has converted selected High Court courtrooms into official vacation destinations for judges required to hear criminal cases during the legal vacation. The Supreme Court approved continued access to the package on Friday when it dismissed Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s application to suspend the Chief Justice’s administrative warrants.

Under the arrangement, judges will travel each morning to the same chambers they occupied before the holiday and check in with court registrars. Administrative warrants will serve as boarding passes, cause lists as itineraries, and every completed hearing as proof that the guest fully experienced the destination. Officials explained that no swimming pool is required because the vacation is legal rather than enjoyable.

Oppong Nkrumah had asked the Supreme Court to close the destinations until his substantive constitutional challenge is determined, arguing that selected criminal cases were receiving special holiday treatment. The court found that he had not established a sufficient case for an interlocutory injunction. The larger constitutional question remains pending. Until it is settled, selected judges may spend August and September enjoying two uninterrupted months away from everything except their benches, courtrooms, lawyers, witnesses and work.

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