THE REPUBLIC vs. NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS & 2 ORS. EX-PARTE: TOGBE KWASINYI AGYEMAN & 2 ORS.

RULING I have read before and the processes filed in pursuant to the application to amend the Judicial Review application anda for extension of time to file a Statement of Case and upon hearing the submissions urged upon me by Counsel for the applicants and the 3rd respondent herein, I have formed the view that the application fails when same had been filed outside the fourteen (14) days within which a statement of case ought to be filed. In that regard it would serve no useful purpose to grant the said amendment only to be confronted with the lapse of time to file a statement of case. Perhaps it is to cure the said mischief that the applicant had filed application for amendment and for extension of time to file a statement of case which is improper. I have had recourse to Order 1 Rule 1 (2) of C I 47 and come to a conclusion that the present application for Judicial Review is incompetent having been filed without a statement of case. It is in this vein that I would struck out same...