[2018]DLHC3497March 5, 2018High Court

THE REPUBLIC vs. MIDLANDS SAVINGS AND LOANS LTD AND OTHERS EX PARTE DAVID KWADWO ANIM

“if the orders of the court can deliberately be set at naught by a litigant employing for her own personal advantage such means as were here resorted to and if indeed it be the case that she has to go unpunished for her contumacy, justice vanishes from the horizon and the law is brought into disrepute… in the memorable word of his honour Judge Curtis –Raleigh:” the law should not be seen to sit by limply while those who defy it go free and those who seek its protection lose hope”. Per Atuguba JSC in IN RE KWABENG STOOL, REPUBLIC v BROWN; EX PARTE KARIKARI [2005-2006] SCGLR 35@41 and relying on the English authority of JENNISON v BAKER [1972] 1ALR 997 @1005-1006 CA. Before me are two separate committal proceedings mounted under Order 50 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, C.I. 47. In the first of the two applications filed on the 19th of June, 2017 by David Kwadwo Anim he cites the Respondents – Midlands Savings and Loans Ltd, William Adjovu, Michael Adjovu and Ro...