Supreme Court dismisses Justice Dery's suit

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by embattled High Court Judge, Justice Paul Utter Dery.

Justice Dery had prayed the court to declare as null and void a petition filed by Tiger Eye PI, which was calling for his removal for allegedly engaging in a corrupt practice.

According to him, the petition should be declared null and void because the publication of Tiger Eye’s Petition to the President in the media, as well as the public screening at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) of the evidence (video), and the Judicial Council's naming of the Judges involved in the “Bribery Scandal” in a press release on September 11, 2015, contravened Article 146 (8) of the 1992 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional.

But the seven member panel that dismissed the suit said despite the breach of the provisions of confidentiality clause by the petitioner for the removal of justices, there was no provision for annulment of the processes as remedy to the matter.

The justices also indicated that the action by the Chief Justice could not be said to be unconstitutional as she has given the applicant an opportunity to prove his innocence to the committee set up to investigate the issue.