THE REPUBLIC vs. MICHAEL CONDUAH (RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT) EX-PARTE: SUPI GEORGE ASMAH (APPLICANT/APPELLANT)

MARFUL-SAU, JA:- This appeal is against the ruling of the High Court sitting at Cape Coast on the 20th October 2010. The facts of this case are that on the 26/7/10 the applicant/ appellant herein filed a motion to commit the respondent for contempt. The affidavit in support of the motion disclosed that there was pending in the Central Region House of Chiefs a petition seeking to destool the respondent as the Omanhene of Edina Traditional Area. The appellant deposed that the High Court, Cape Coast in a ruling dated the 27/6/2001 restrained the respondent from exercising any public function as Chief until his status as Omanhene has been fully and finally determined by the appropriate body. This order was annexed to the motion as Exhibit S2. The appellant also annexed to the motion a ruling of the High court certified on 25/6/2002, which convicted the respondent for contempt for proceeding to perform an event when there was an injunction pending seeking to restrain him from performing...