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- ↑ "List of Chief Justices". Judicial Service of Ghana. Archived from the original on 2007-02-13. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
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- ↑ Kwaku S. Asare (2002-12-31). "December 31, The Day Democracy was Aborted". ModernGhana. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ↑ "Volume 4 Chapter 2: The Legal Profession (including the Judiciary)" (PDF). The National Reconciliation Commission Report. Ghana government. October 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
- ↑ Yidana, Jacob Yabuni, "Who Killed the Judges?" (2002)Google books online
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