{"id":202501,"date":"2025-07-15T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-operations-paralyzed\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:14:57","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-operations-paralyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-operations-paralyzed\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Operations Paralyzed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The long silence by justices of the Supreme Court, to decide on whether constitutionally retired Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh should stay on, to preside over new cases, has effectively paralyzed the high court activities for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">This incident followed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) challenging the extension of the office of Justice Yuoh, to hear new appeal cases beyond the constitutionally mandated retirement age of 70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Justice Yuoh, though retired and her successor nominated by President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150638.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long silence by justices of the Supreme Court, to decide on whether constitutionally retired Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh should stay on, to preside over new cases, has effectively paralyzed the high court activities for weeks. This incident followed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) challenging the extension of the office of Justice Yuoh, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6185,4712,1107,257,6345,28116,254,9498],"class_list":["post-202501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-paralyzed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}