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Part V Regional Tribunals
142 ESTABLISHMENT AND COMPOSITION OF REGIONAL TRIBUNALS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF
CHAIRMEN AND OTHER PANEL MEMBERS
(1)
There shall be established in each region of Ghana such Regional Tribunals as the Chief Justice may
determine.
(2)
A Regional Tribunal shall consist of—
(a) the Chief Justice;
(b) one Chairman; and
(c) such members who may or may not be lawyers as shall be designated by the Chief Justice to sit
as panel members of a Regional Tribunal and for such period as shall be specified in writing by the
Chief Justice.
(3)
A Regional Tribunal shall be duly constituted by a panel consisting of the Chairman and not less than
two other panel members.
(4)
A person shall not be appointed to be a Chairman of a Regional Tribunal unless he is qualified to be
appointed a Justice of the High Court.
(5)
A panel member of a Regional Tribunal shall be a person of high moral character and proven integrity.
143 JURISDICTION OF REGIONAL TRIBUNALS
(1)
A Regional Tribunal shall have jurisdiction to try such offences against the State and the public
interest as Parliament may, by law, prescribe.
(2)
A Regional Tribunal shall have such appellate jurisdiction relating to the matters described in clause
(1) of this article, as may be prescribed by law.
(3)
For the purpose of hearing and determining an appeal within its jurisdiction and the amendment,
execution or enforcement of a judgment or order on any appeal, and for the purposes of any other
authority expressly or by necessary implication given to it by this Constitution or any other law, a
Regional Tribunal shall have all the powers, authority and jurisdiction vested in the tribunal from
which the appeal is brought.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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