[2019]DLHC10342 • October 10, 2019 • High Court
THE REPUBLIC vs. DESIRE EL DAVIDS EX-PARTE: DR. BRIGHT AFEKE
The applicant on the 19th of February, 2018 filed an application in this Court to have the respondent committed for contempt. That application was supported by an affidavit. On the 8th of March, 2018, the applicant filed a supplementary affidavit in support of his original application/motion on notice for an order for committal for contempt. In the said supplementary affidavit the applicant deposed to the facts that the second page of his Exhibit ‘BA1’ was inadvertently left out of the exhibits that were attached to his original application and also that he omitted to add a certificate of exhibits as required by Order 20 Rule 14(3) of C.I. 47. The applicant attached to the supplementary affidavit a new Exhibit ‘BA1’ which he described in paragraph 6 of the supplementary affidavit as “a copy of the said entire document of the Terms of Settlement adopted by the Court” and he also attached the certificate of exhibits which he omitted when filing the original application. The...