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Title:Judicial review of legislation in Ghana since independence
Author:Kumado, C.E.K.
Year:1980
Periodical:Review of Ghana Law
Volume:12
Pages:67-103
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subject:legislation
External link:https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/rvghana12&id=93
Abstract:Judicial review is: 'a synthesis of three separate concepts, namely the supremacy of certain higher principles, the need to put even the higher law in written form and the employment of the judiciary as a tool for enforcing the constitution against ordinary legislation'. Judicial review of legislation in Ghana since indepedence is considered here in this article in the following sections: General introduction - Judicial review in Ghana - Review under Independence Constitution of 1957 - The Republican Constitution of 1960 - The 1969 Second Republican Constitution of Ghana - The High Court and review under the 1969 Constitution - Judicial review under the military regimes of Ghana - Conclusion and recommendations. Notes.
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