For any reason which would impede against a just ruling or foster bias, judges are allowed to step down from ruling on a case—and in the on-going Montie Fm’s contempt case, Chief Justice,  Georgina Theodora Wood, and another  judge of the Supreme Court, Sulley Gbadegbe, have stepped down from the panel hearing.
According to Wood and Gbadegbe, they did so because their names were specifically mentioned in the comments of the three people facing the contempt charges.
The two have been replaced by Justice Sophia Akuffo and Justice Julius Ansah. 
Two Montie Fm’s commentators-Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn threatened to finish Ghana’s Supreme Court judges if they made any judgment against the Electoral Commission in the Abu Ramanda court case which challenged the validity of the voters’ register.
Following the comments, the management of Montie Fm, the host of the show-Mugabe and the two commentators were cited for contempt by the Supreme Court.
The court has asked those cited to explain in a letter why they should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalizing the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”

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