REDCO LIMITED AND IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC vs. DAVID ASANTE APEATU (IGP) EXPARTE: SAMUEL AGGREY JNR. & ANOR

The core issues which I have been called upon to adjudicate on are: (a) Whether or not the conviction of Applicant in the contempt proceedings ought to be set aside on the ground that the lawyer who filed it had no license to practice as a lawyer at the time same was filed. (b) Whether or not the contempt proceedings was a nullity on the ground that the preconditions that were to be satisfied to clothe the Court with jurisdiction were not satisfied before the filing of the contempt proceedings. A brief facts of the case is that Mrs. Isabella Odi Aggrey who was later substituted by Samuel Aggrey Jnr. and Mrs. Augustina Gyekye Eck, by reason of death, instituted an action in the General Jurisdiction of the High Court in Suit No. CR/15/88 and obtained judgment against Redco Limited. Subsequently, the Plaintiffs/ Judgment/ Creditor/ Applicants/ Respondents (herein after called the Respondents) filed a fi fa and subsequently, an order directed at the IGP as head of the Ghana Police Serv...