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Judge Sophia Ophelia Adjeibea Adinyira has retired from the Supreme Court and urged lawyers not to seek unnecessary recourse in the Supreme Court.
At a farewell ceremony at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, she says: "Some lawyers are actually wasting the time and money of their clients by seeking legal means up to the Supreme Court and neglecting the substantive issues pending before the trial court."
Judge Adinyira has been in the public service for 42 years.
"I will not say that you are also wasting the time of the Supreme Court, so the lawyers make me understand.The judges I leave behind have not yet gotten old and I will not be here to stop them from throwing your business of their own free will, "Judge Adinyira added.
Judge Adinyira also urged lawyers to provide adequate legal services to the poor and marginalized in society. She called on the legal community to step up its game in this area.
Judge Adinyira, on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, pronounced her summary judgment in the case of the Juvenile Delinquency Center against the Tax Authority of Ghana and two other persons, after bidding farewell to the judiciary after 35 years of service in Ghana.
About Judge Adinyira
Judge Adinyira was born on June 8, 1947.
She was appointed to the Supreme Court on March 15, 2006, under the presidency of John Agyekum Kufuor, and sits on the Supreme Court for 13 years.
She leaves the seat as the third oldest judge on the current fifteen.
She was a 9-member panel that heard and delivered its judgment on the famous case of the electoral petition in 2013.
She completed her legal training at the University of Ghana and the Faculty of Law of Ghana and was admitted to the Bar of Ghana in 1973.
Judge Adinyira worked for the Attorney General before being appointed to the High Court in 1989.
She was also a judge of the United Nations Court of Appeals from July 2009 to June 2016, sitting in New York and Geneva.
Adinyira is a member of the International Association of Women Judges and chairs the National Multisectoral Committee on Child Protection.
She is also a member of the General Legal Counsel, the body responsible for legal education in Ghana.
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