Review appointment process of judges to curb corruption in Judiciary

A former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Justice Francis Emile Short, has advocated a review of the process for the appointment of judges to include strict background checks.

He said he believed that the current recruitment process was terribly deficient, as serious scrutiny of the background of nominees was virtually non-existent, a situation which provided room for people with questionable characters to infiltrate the system.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra Thursday on the Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI investigative piece that captured some magistrates and judges on video allegedly collecting bribes, Mr Justice Short expressed concern that although the extraordinary powers vested in judicial office demanded high moral and proven character, that appeared to be fading away.

He indicated that when individuals charged with dispensing justice in society became corrupted, the entire c