Renowned lawyer Supreme Court nominee Justice Senyo Dzamefe has expressed his strong opposition of increasing the retirement age of judges from 70 years to 75 years. The lawyer who appeared before the parliamentary vetting committee today, Monday, June 16, 2025, admonished that, he strongly believes maintaining the current retirement age of judges would ensure judges retire in good state of being holistically.
“I will not agree with sending the retirement ages of Supreme Court or Appeal Court judges to 75. No,” he said. “The retirement age as at now is 70. Superior court judges retire on their salaries.”
He explained that traditionally, age and experience were important factors in judicial work, but technology has changed that reality. “Formally, you need to be advanced in age to get the experience and the exposure so that when you give judgment, it is respected. It is a solid judgment because you’re adding personal experience to the legal knowledge you have,” he said.
“But of late, technology has made it such that what you needed 60 or 70 years to know, technology can make it available to you very early,” he explained. “So personally, my opinion is to keep it at 70. That is my opinion, not 75.”
“I want judges to retire very healthy, and then we can use them for other purposes, like assessors. They can help the judiciary or the service in other forms, like helping to filter out cases,” he added.
“So I think we maintain it at the 70 as at now. That is my opinion,” he said.
Via: myjoyonline.com
