JOSEPH ANSAH DANSO, STEPHEN AMAKYE LARTEY AND REV. SAMUEL ABOA (PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS) vs. NANA MENSAH ATTAKORAH II

SAEED K. GYAN, JA I should begin by stating that the Courts are in recent times firmly turning their back against sterile technicalities in the pursuit of substantial justice. Therefore, sophistry cannot be suffered to find an honourable space in the hallowed corridors of justice in our contemporary times. This appeal seems to me to be a classical example of where a party seeks to stand justice on its head by encouraging the Court to enable the party to eat its cake and have it. Any attempt to primitively strip delicate Femme Justice naked ought to be resisted, or at least discouraged so as not to pollute the stream of justice and hence bring the Courts into public disrepute and odium. Some eighty or so years ago, a group of brave and adventurous men from the Akwapim Hills in the now Eastern Region of Ghana set off to the Western Province of the Gold Coast in search of the Golden fleece of large, fertile virgin land. In that adventure, they formed themselves into loose group...