THE REPUBLIC vs. SARAH CHINBUA, MADAM JOANA MENSAH AND MRS. KWABIAH EX-PARTE: ELIZABETH NANA NKETSIAH AND SARAH CHINBUAH vs. ELIZABETH NANA NKETSIAH

APALOO JA; This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of the High Court dated 8th March 2011. In the ruling the lower Court dismissed a motion praying that an earlier order that Sarah Chinbua the 1st Respondent/Respondent should surrender the Passport of Marie Chinbua (then a child) to the Police be discharged or varied. The appellant filed two grounds of appeal against the ruling which we reproduce here; 1) “That the Learned Trial Judge misdirected himself in delivering a ruling which was clearly in violation of the provisions of the Children’s Act 1998 (Act 560) and against the best interest of the child. 2) That the Learned trial Judge took into consideration matters which were not before him in consideration of the appeal by visiting the sins of the Guardian on the Child.” From the various documents filed in this interlocutory appeal, we have noticed and observed that the parties are at war with each other, litigating over various decisions delivered in respe...