A
statement issued by the
Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B. Poku - Acheampong said the move is in furtherance of «the
recent groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, commonly referred to as «galamsey».
The way in which the Trial Chamber reacted to Alternate Judge Sow's decision to make a public
statement on the Taylor Trial; the exclusion of his
statement from the official transcript of the hearing; and the
recent information suggesting irregularities in the process which the SCSL judges invoked to discipline their
judicial colleague for alleged misconduct all underscore the need for greater transparency on this issue than we have so far received from the SCSL.