Supreme Court judge, Justice Jones Dotse, has officially retired from active service after 21 years as a judge today.
He was appointed acting Chief Justice following the retirement of Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, who served as Chief Justice.
The 70-year-old has served as a Supreme Court judge for 15 years.
In his retirement speech in court on June 6, 2023, Justice Jones Dotse recounted special moments in his line of work and certain individuals he was privileged to work with.
He also expressed gratitude to his family and all who supported him.
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Justice Jones Dotse earned a law degree from the University of Ghana in 1976, and in 1978, was later awarded a BL in Law from the Ghana School of Law. He was called to the Bar in November 1978.
After three years as a state attorney, he spent 20 years in private practice. Justice Dotse served in a variety of capacities during this time while working as a lawyer, eventually reaching to the post of president of the Volta Region Bar Association. Additionally, he had a specialty in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
In 2002, he was appointed to the Bench as a High Court Judge where he served for seven years. In 2008, he was appointed as Justice of the Supreme Court of The Gambia, a position he still occupies. That same year, he was in 2008 elevated to the Supreme Court of Ghana.
The veteran judge was part of different panels that handled the country’s two biggest political cases, the 2012 and 2020 Presidential Election Petitions filed at the Supreme Court by current President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, the Presidential Candidate, and former President John Dramani Mahama respectively.
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