LICENSED SURVEYORS ASSOCIATION OF GHANA AND KWAME TENADU vs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, THE MINISTER, LANDS &NATURAL RESOURCES AND LANDS COMMISSION

ATUGUBA, JSC: By their writ dated 3/11/2014 the plaintiffs claim against the defendants as follows: 1. a declaration that the Land Commission as established by Parliament pursuant to the lands Commission Act, 2008 (Act 767) is unconstitutional. 2. a declaration that section 5(g), (h), (i) and (j) of the Lands Commissions Act 2008 (Act 767) that assigns functions to the 3rd defendant which said functions by virtue of the 1992 Constitution are intended to be the preserve of existing institutions which the 3rd defendant was constitutionally enjoined to coordinate with in the performance of its functions under articles 11 and 258 of the 1992 Constitution and are unconstitutional and consequently void. 3. a declaration that section 7(2) (c) of the Lands Commission Act, 2008 (Act 767) which interferes with the assessment and collection of rents in respect of stool lands and their distribution, a function assigned to the Administrator of Stool Lands by the 1992 Constitution violates, bre...