Ashanti Region: Circuit Court inaugurated at Juaben

The Chief Justice, His Lordship Kawsi Anin-Yeboah has inagurated a Circuit Court at Juaben in the Ashanti Region.

This comes about a month when a district court was commissioned in close proximity at Bonwire, in the Ejisu Municipality. 

Funded by the Municipal Assembly through its Common Fund, the facility at Juaben houses a permanent residence for the judge, a solar-powered borehole, Registrar’s office, an ICT room, and a standby generator for uninterrupted power supply, among others.

Background

Efforts to ensure access to justice through court infrastructure in various districts stepped up especially last year with the inauguration of newly built court edifices. Of the lot, these included a new High Court at Sowutuom, in the Ga-Central Municipality, a court facility at the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region, a High court with additional responsibility as a child-friendly gender-based violence Circuit court in Nalerigu, the regional capital of the North-East Region and a Circuit court at Dansoman in Accra.

Perhaps the highlight of these was the inauguration of the new Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, together with twenty (20) townhouses and a guesthouse to serve as permanent residence for Justices of the Court of Appeal serving the northern sector of the country. 

In March 2022, during the State of the Nation’s Address, President Akufo-Addo indicated that his government began a project to provide 100 courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates across the country. 

“We have embarked on a project to provide one hundred (100) courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates around the country. Fifty of them are being built and are near completion, and should be handed over to the Judiciary soon,” President Nana Addo said in March 2022.  

The commissioning of these new court facilities forms part of the 100 courts project being executed by the government, judicial officials have said.