MENSAH vs. MENSAH

JUDGMENT JUDGMENT OF HAYFRON-BENJAMIN J. This is a wife’s petition for divorce on the ground that the marriage has broken down beyond the possibility of reconciliation. The parties were married in England on 23 July 1966 and lived and cohabited together there and later on in Accra. Both parties are lawyers, the petitioner presently being a law officer at the office of the Attorney-General. The respondent is a legal practitioner at Accra. There is no issue of the marriage. The petition itself is just a reproduction of the general provisions of the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1971 (Act 367), and I would not have hesitated to strike it out in its entirety if the respondent had not asked for better particulars. The relevant portions of the petition state: “(7) That the said marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation. (8) That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with him. (9) That the parties to the marriage have af...