CHIEF JUSTICE MEETS LIBERIAN COUNTERPART
Chief Justice Wood briefed her counterpart on the judicial reforms going on in the Ghanaian judiciary especially the establishment of the Commercial Court and the practice of the court-sponsored Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) concept, which has caught well in the country. She informed him that at the recent conference of the Ghana Bar Association in Koforidua, 135 lawyers signed up to be trained as ADR mediators. She promised to put the training facilities of the Ghana Judicial Training Institute at the disposal of Liberia, assist in the Liberian Career Magistrates programme and Liberia’s overall judicial reform programme.
The Liberian Chief Justice said he was very much interested in both the Commercial Court and the ADR concept and requested for documents on them. He had earlier toured the Commercial Court where he was briefed by the Administrator, Mrs. Dorothy Kingsley-Nyinah. He was accompanied by Prof. Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, the UN Secretary-General’s newly-appointed Special Representative in Liberia. Chief Justice Wood, Prof. Mensah-Bonsu and Nene Amegatcher, a lawyer, were the pioneers of the ADR practice in Ghana, having schooled in the United States of America to become trainers of trainers. Prof. Mensah-Bonsu said she would use her presence in Liberia to facilitate the practice of the ADR concept there.
Justice Lewis was in the country to attend the 3rd Colloquium of Chief
Justices of West Africa held in Accra.
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