ELSIE EWURA BENA KESSIE (PETITIONER) vs. NANA AGYEKUM KESSIE (RESPONDENT)

This is an application to set aside the registration of a foreign judgment. The applicant comes under Order 71, rule 9. On the 29/12/09, the Croydon County Court made a final Order with respect to Matrimonial Proceedings between the parties herein. As judgments from the County Courts in the United Kingdom are not registrable under the laws governing the reciprocal enforcement of Judgments between the U.K and Ghana, the High Court of Justice (Family Division) in London, upon an application by the Respondent herein (Petitioner therein) affirmed the Orders of the Croydon County Court on 24/3/11 for purposes of its registration in Ghana. And on the 10/8/11, the High Court in Accra on motion ex-parte, directed that the judgment of the County Court as registered in the High Court, London be entered and registered in Ghana's Register of Foreign Judgments. It is this order for registration that this instant application protests. The Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459) provides in its Sections 82 an...