Justice William Atuguba, presiding judge has opened Day 42 of the Election Petition hearing with another warning.

People should desist from writing to the judges; it is also contemptuous, he announced.

The presiding judge said highly-placed persons in society have been writing letters to the judges – a practice which is unacceptable in law.

He attributed it to the reality that many Ghanaians do not understand the intricacies of the law profession.

“A lay man is a lay man,” he quipped.

Nonetheless, the bench was serving public notice that writing to a judge on a matter pending in court is contemptuous.

“Stop it,” he warned.

Three persons have been found guilty of contempt so far in the Election Petition which is a challenge against the declaration of John Mahama as winner of the 2012 Presidential Elections held last December.

The three - Sammy Awuku of the opposition NPP, Stephen Atubiga of the governing NDC and Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Ken Kuranchie.