REPUBLIC vs. LIBERTY PRESS LTD. AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT JUDGMENT OF AKUFO-ADDO C.J. On 8 January this year the Attorney-General applied under Order 59 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A) by motion ex parte for leave to apply for writs for the attachment of the persons named in the application for contempt of court in printing and publishing an article entitled "Justice delayed is justice denied" in the journal Legon Observer of the issue of 8-21 December 1967. Leave was granted by me and the application was made on 22 January 1968, by motion on notice to the contemnors, that is, the Liberty Press Ltd., the printers of the journal aforesaid and 28 professors and lecturers of the University of Ghana, Legon, who operate under the unincorporated name of "Legon Society on National Affairs" the publishers and distributors of the said Legon Observer and the editor of the said journal. The article complained of by the Attorney-General is in the following terms: "WE HAVE had occasion once in ...