AGYABENG vs. ANNAN

AMPIAH JA. On 28 October 1991 judgment was delivered against the appellant-applicant herein and she was ordered to vacate the store in which she traded by the end of January 1992. The applicant appealed against the judgment and applied for stay of execution of the order to the trial court. The court granted her a stay of execution up to February 1992 hoping by that period the record of proceedings would have been completed. According to the applicant, try as she did to have the record completed, the record was not ready. She therefore went to the court below once more ostensibly to ask for a further stay; what she really needed was extension of time. The court refused her application saying that the stay granted earlier had not been given on terms. Being aggrieved by this order or refusal, the applicant has applied to this court for a stay of execution of the order of the court below. In his argument, counsel for the applicant submitted that although there was a stay of execution by...