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His Honor, Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe, has retired from the Supreme Court.
He delivered his dismissal judgment today, December 3, in the case of David Apasera & 39 Ors v. Attorney General and others after 11 years of service on the Supreme Court bench.
He was appointed in 2009 by President John Evans Atta Mills of blessed memory after a decade of service on the Superior Court (1989 to 1999) and ten years later on the Court of Appeal (1999 to 2009).
The late Professor Mills sworn him in to the Supreme Court in November 2009 after unanimous approval by Parliament of his nomination.
However, President Jerry John Rawlings appointed him to both the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal, now late.
The 70-year-old studied at the University of Ghana, where he obtained his LLB in 1975, and subsequently at the Ghana Law School to obtain his professional law degree in 1975.
As early as 2009, Judge Gbadegbe was one of the few voices advocating for the computerization of the judicial system and processes to allow the courts to dispense cases quickly without compromising justice.
He was one of the judges who was reportedly attacked with verbal invective in a case that was infamously called the Montie 3 case.
This was in the course of the 2016 election petition hearing when an NDC commentator, Godwin Ako Gunn, thought that Judge Gbadegbe and then Chief Justice Wood were promoting a PNP agenda and threatened on live radio with kill them.
Subsequently, Mr. Gunn was found in contempt of court; the proceedings from which Judge Gbadegbe and the Chief Justice withdrew.
