THE REPUBLIC vs. SHAI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EX-PARTE NUMO NARTEH DONKOR NUMO HENRY COFFIE (SUBSTITUTED BY NUMO FRANCIS AG. HEAD OF LARTEY WORNUKPEKPE FAMILY OF MATETSE DODOWAA AND NUMO HAYFORD ADJANOR MATETSE, DODOWA

B. ACKAH-YENSU, JA INTRODUCTION This appeal is from the Ruling of the High Court (General Jurisdiction Accra) dated the 31st day of July 2018. In the High Court, the Respondent herein Numo Narteh Donkor sought an order for judicial review in the nature of prohibition against the Appellants. BACKGROUND FACTS The back ground facts to this appeal can be summarized as follows:- The Respondent aforesaid was served with a civil process emanating from the Shai Traditional Council, whereby he was commanded to attend to the Judicial Committee of the said Council to respond to a claim by some Plaintiffs for; “a declaration that the next chief of Matetse Draweh Dodowa shall come from the Wornukpekpe Family of Matetse Dodowa and not from the Lartey Kpesehu Family of Matetse Dodowa” The Respondent’s case was that the said issue of the proper ruling house had been settled by customary arbitration at the palace of Nene Djagbletey VI Kutuwer Matse of Heowe on March 10 2014, wherein th...