THE REPUBLIC vs. NANA ABENA KWAKYI AND POKUAA SIRIBOE EXPARTE – MRS. CATHERINE AND KAKRA SIRIBOE

The applicants moved a Motion for Contempt filed on the 12/10/2018 citing the respondents for contempt specifically the breach of the court mandatory orders and interference with the administration of justice. The Court then proceeded to rule on the existence of a Prima facie case as follows... “BY COURT – This an application to cite the respondents herein for contempt. It is clearly the position of the law that an application for contempt is a serious matter indeed. It is quasi criminal in nature a position reiterated in a plethora of cases including Exparte Laryea Mensah 1998/99 SCGLR, Exparte Ameyaw 1998/99 SCGLR. Bamford Addo JSC as she then was in the above cited case of Exparte Laryea Mensah had this to say about the nature of contempt when she quoted from Oswald’s Contempt of Court third edition page 6 as follows: “To speak generally, contempt of court may be said to be constituted by any conduct that tends to bring the authority and the administration of t...