REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION), ACCRA; EX PARTE ATTORNEY GENERAL (SWEATERS & SOCKS FACTORY LTD & BEANY INTERESTED PARTIES)

RULING DR DATE-BAH JSC This case can easily be disposed of since the main issue in it has recently been authoritatively determined by a binding precedent of this court. That binding precedent is the decision of this court delivered on 24 January 2013 in the case of Republic v High Court (Commercial Division); Ex parte Attorney-General (Maud Nongo Interested Party) [2013-2014] I SCGLR 70. The facts of this present case are as follows: In April 2003, a High Court gave judgment in favour of the interested parties in this case, namely, Sweaters & Socks Factory Ltd and Habib George Beany. Under the judgment, the State was to prepare a comprehensive account on the use to which it had put the interested parties' factory premises and the transactions carried out there. The State failed to do so. Accordingly, on 16 May 2012, Her Ladyship Ankumah J ruled that the interested parties recover US$ 28,595,600 or its cedi equivalent against the State. This sum was monetary compensation to t...