[2024]DLSC17717 • July 17, 2024 • Supreme Court •
DR. AMANDA ODOI vs. THE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT & THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
The Applicant, Dr. Amanda Odoi, challenged the constitutionality of the parliamentary process leading to the passage of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2024. She contended that the Speaker of Parliament failed to obtain a prior opinion on whether the Bill would impose a charge on the Consolidated Fund as required by Article 108 of the 1992 Constitution, rendering the Bill unconstitutional and incapable of being presented to the President for assent.
read moreRULING DARKO ASARE JSC (READ BY SACKEY TORKORNOO CJ): By this application, the Plaintiff/Applicant prays for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the 1st Defendant/Respondent, the Clerk of Parliament and their respective agents, servants and assigns from forwarding the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill which was passed by Parliament on Wednesday February 28th, 2024 as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024 (“the Bill”) to the President for his assent, pending the final determination of this present suit. This application rests on a writ which the Applicant caused to be issued against the Respondents invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court for a number of reliefs summed up at paragraph 22 of Applicant’s Statement of Case In Support of An Application For The Interlocutory Injunction filed on the 7th of March 2024. Paragraph 22 reads as follows:- 22. On 1st June 2023, the Applicant caused a Writ of...