Liberia: Supreme Court Orders Judges

13 November 2012

The Supreme Court has issued a judicial order requiring all judges to, henceforth, be making detailed ruling/judgment containing clear and concise summaries of facts and evidence in cases before them.

"Every final ruling/judgment rendered by a judge in the disposition of a cause of action shall henceforth, and as unequivocally espoused by the Supreme Court of Liberia in its opinion in the case: Martha Sirleaf v. Republic of Liberia, delivered at the March 2012 Term of Court, be by a detailed ruling containing clear and concise summaries of the facts and evidence of the case, the relevant law citations relied upon, and the rational upon which the ruling is made," the order, signed by four justices of the five-member bench said.

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