The Sins of Ghana’s Judiciary and The Price of Freedom: The unconstitutionality and discrimination of using immovable property as a bail condition against accused persons

The practice of the court that requires immovable property in the nature of landed property secured by title deeds or land certificates in order to execute criminal bail in Ghana is examined in this legal argument. In this paper, I argue that although bail is a constitutional procedure intended to strike a balance between the state’s interest in justice and the accused’s right to personal liberty, the regular requirement of landed collateral turns a constitutional right into an economic privi...

By Isaac Yeboah