Legal vacations unjustified in the 21st century – Prof Kwaku Azar explains

Public intellectual Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare known widely as Kwaku Azar has argued there is no justification for legal vacations in prevailing times, stressing that legal vacations belong to the 19th century when they were useful.

He explained that in the 19th century, legal vacations afforded white expatriates who ran our Courts to travel back home to get some rest. But in modern times, such lengthy vacations – a three-month-long period – are unprofitable, especially when they are a lot of court cases to attend to.

For him, the recent move to increase the number of Supreme Court judges to 20 due to the high number of cases before the Supreme Court is unjustified when judges go on such long legal vacations.

He therefore wants legal vacations scrapped.

“Legal vacations were to allow obroni to travel home to get one month rest at a time in the 19th century when they run the courts. Add the time to travel by ship and you get the 3 months break.

To continue with this practice, while asking that we have 20 SC Justices to deal with case backlog, is a sign that we are stuck in the 19th century mode of thinking,” Prof Asare argued.

Every year, Ghanaian Courts go on a typically three-month-long legal vacations. But Prof Asare wants the practice done away with.

“The obroni[ white men] may be gone but his legacies endure.

Sorry my learned friends, GOGO will scrap legal vacations on Day 1,” he added.

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