THE REPUBLIC vs. CARL JOSIAH REINDORF EX PARTE C.F.C. COMPANY LTD

This is an application mounted under Order 50 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, C. I. 47 seeking an order of committal for contempt against the Respondent. The grounds for the application had been stated in the affidavit deposed to by one Leela Dyson as follows: that C.F.C company instituted an action against the Respondent and one Philip Reindorf in a suit no BMSC 816/2012. The purpose of the suit was to seek an order to declare as null and void on grounds of fraud and illegality a judgment of the High Court dated the 22nd July, 1997 obtained by the Reindorfs of Adain Onamrokor family. The court in its judgment on the 28th of June, 2016 set aside the 1997 judgment of the High Court on grounds of fraud with a further declaration that the Respondent had no capacity to grant out C.F.C Estate lands at mile 7 on the Accra - Nsawam road, thus annulling all grants made by the Reindorfs on the 1997 judgment. The court further ruled, according to the Applicant, that the Respondent...