THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX PARTE; JOSEPH DANSO

GBADEGBE JSC: We have before us an application for judicial review in the nature of certiorari to be directed at the judgment and or decision of the High Court, Accra dated 29 August in a suit that concerns the parties herein numbered as BMISC 634/2014 and entitled Kwame Owusu Ansah and Others v the New Patriotic Party and Another. The grounds on which the application is brought are breach of the right to a fair hearing and what is described ‘as procedural impropriety’. The facts that gave rise to the application are shortly stated as follows: Following the conduct of elections in some constituencies by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), some members of the party, feeling aggrieved by the processes leading to the election and the declaration of results in the Kumawu Constituency, petitioned the national headquarters of the party which annulled the elections and ordered a re-run. The first three interested parties herein subsequently lodged a claim before the High Court, Accra...