IBRAHIM FELIX & 7 ORS. vs. THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (N.P.P) & 4 ORS.

This ruling concerns a legal issue raised by Mr Shaddrack Obeng Yeboah, Counsel for the Plaintiff/Respondents, herein after called the respondents, in an application filed on behalf of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendant/Applicants, to be referred to hereafter as the applicants, praying for an order to stay further proceedings of a suit dated the 11th day of May 2015, mounted by the respondents against the applicants and two others because of an appeal filed before the Court of Appeal by the applicants on 8th July, 2015 against the decision of this court which dismissed their application seeking to dismiss the suit. On the return date, Counsel for the respondents referred to, sought leave of the court and raised a legal issue. In his submission, he contended that by virtue of Rule 27A of the Court of Appeal Rules of 1997 (C.I. 19), as amended by the Court of Appeal Rules of 1998 (C.I. 21), the application of the applicants, being an interlocutory, should have been filed in the Co...