The Acting Chief Justice was not appointed. His new role is a constitutional provision that has kicked in, article 144 (6b).
Of the current 14 Justices of the supreme Court, Justice Baffoe-Bonnie is the most senior. He was appointed in 2008 and sworn in on June 11, 2008.
On that day, President Kufuor swore in 4 Justices of the supreme Court; Justice Rose Constance Owusu, Justice Jones Dotse, Justice Anin Yeboah and Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie.
The next senior went to the bench in 2015, Justice Pwamang.
(6) Where the office of Chief Justice is vacant, or where the Chief Justice is for any reason unable to perform the functions of his office
(a) until a person has been appointed to, and has assumed the functions of, that office; or
(b) until the person holding that office has resumed the functions of that office; as the case may be, those functions shall be performed by the most senior of the Justices of the Supreme Court.
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