KWESI NYIMOH AND ANOTHER vs. DADZIE

JUDGMENT OF SCOTT J. This is an application by Nana Kobina Dadzie the defendant-appellant for special leave to appeal against a decision of this court on the 21st December, 1961, in which the judgment of the trial court was upheld. The application is made under the Courts Act, 1960,1(1) section 8 (1) proviso (a) (i). Counsel for the defendant-appellant-applicant has argued his grounds for special leave to appeal with much vigour and ingenuity, but in the main the arguments advanced while attractively posed have been a repetition and reiteration of the arguments advanced at the hearing of the appeal. Council for the respondents has contended that the prerequisites for the grant of special leave to appeal are either that there must be prima facie, an error on the face of the record, or that a general principle is being decided for the first time, or that a decision of the Supreme Court would be to the public advantage, and has further contended that not a single one of...