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Matters Arising Out of the Abdulai Court: Presiding Members can Wear two Hats
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March 12, 2022July 24, 2025Constitutional Law

Matters Arising Out of the Abdulai Court: Presiding Members can Wear two Hats

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Article 110(1) of the Constitution provides that “subject to the provisions of this Constitution, Parliament may, by standing orders, regulate its own procedure.” Article 101 provides that “the Speaker shall preside in Parliament at all sittings and in his absence a Deputy Speaker shall preside.” The person presiding at these sittings wield enormous powers. He...

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July 19, 2017July 24, 2025CATEGORIES, Constitutional Law

Making Things Anew: A Review of The Supreme Court’s Approach To Constitutional Infractions

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In the well known case of Marbury v Madison[1], Chief Justice Marshall counsels: “certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void”....