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Title:The legal effect of executive confirmation of findings or awards by quasi-judicial bodies in Ghana
Author:Bimpong-Buta, S.Y.ISNI
Year:1988
Periodical:Journal of African Law
Volume:32
Issue:1
Pages:95-111
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:judicial system
commissions of inquiry
Abstract:In order to cope with increasing responsibilities, a government may establish statutory bodies to deal with certain aspects of governmental activity of a quasi-judicial nature. In developing countries such as Ghana, one often finds in the Statute books enactments conferring certain powers on such bodies. In Ghana, the decisions based on the facts found by quasi-judicial bodies do not usually become binding unless two conditions are satisfied. One condition is that they must be published in an official gazette. This paper addresses the question of whether or not the mere executive confirmation of a finding or award by a quasi-judicial body in an official publication should become so sacrosanct that it cannot be reviewed or challenged by due process of law. Relying mainly on the High Court decision of Maritime and Dockworkers Union of TUC v. State Shipping Corporation (1983), where this issue was discussed at length, an attempt is made to show that the mechanical approach usually adopted by the courts has tended to obscure the social policy objectives for which such quasi-judicial bodies have been created. Notes, ref.
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