[2024]DLSC17812 • December 18, 2024 • Supreme Court •
RICHARD SKY vs. PARLIAMENT OF GHANA & 'ATTORNEY GENERAL
The plaintiff, Richard Sky, challenged the constitutionality of a Bill passed by Parliament but not yet assented to by the President, seeking the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction to declare the Bill unconstitutional and a nullity on grounds that it contravened specific constitutional provisions and that the legislative process was flawed.
read moreJUDGMENT PROF. MENSA-BONSU (JSC) …”Then lest he may, Prevent And since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented Would run to these and these extremities And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous – And kill him in the shell” William Shakespeare 'Julius Caesar' Act 2 Scene 1 INTRODUCTION: The plaintiff, a citizen of Ghana who, in a pre-emptive strike, has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Article 2(1) and Article 130 of the Constitution of Ghana,1992, to challenge the constitutionality of the 'Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021' (“the Bill'') as passed by Parliament in 2024. The plaintiff says he is seeking to uphold the fundamental human rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992, and contends that the Bill, as passed by Parliament violates certain provisions in ...