REPUBLIC vs. DISTRICT MAGISTRATE GRADE 1, TARKWA; EX PARTE PANYIN III AND OTHERS [1982]DLHC11125

Date	1982-01-11
Suit No.	[1982-83] GLR 552
Citation No.	[1982]DLHC11125

TWUMASI J.

JAMES MERCER FOR THE APPLICANTS.

GAISIE FOR THE RESPONDENTS.

[1982]DLHC11125
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DISTRICT MAGISTRATE GRADE 1, TARKWA;
EX PARTE PANYIN
III AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, SEKONDI]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">[1982-83] GLR 552 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE:
11 JANUARY 1982<o:p></o:p>

</div><h2 style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></h2>JAMES MERCER FOR THE APPLICANTS. <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

TWUMASI J.<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;JUDGMENT OF TWUMASI J.<o:p></o:p>Pursuant
to leave granted by this court on 7 September 1981, this court was moved on 9
November 1981 by Mercer, counsel for
the applicants, for the orders of certiorari and prohibition to issue against a
certain criminal summons issued by the District Magistrate
Grade 1, Tarkwa, dated 13 August 1981 and all orders made in connection
therewith particularly the orders dated 12 and 25 August 1981. Under section 22 (1) of the Criminal
Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30),
it is provided that:<o:p></o:p>“Whenever a District Magistrate is informed on oath that any person is likely
to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public peace, or to
do any wrongful act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace or disturb the public peace, the
Magistrate may require him to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a
bond, with or without sureties, for keeping the peace for
such period as the Magistrate thinks fit.”<o:p></o:p>Section
24 of Act 30 provides that whenever it is necessary to require any person to
show cause under section 23, the
magistrate shall make an order in writing setting forth: (a) the substance of
the information received; (b) the
amount of the bond; (c) the purpose of the bond and its term; and (d) the
number, character and class of
sureties. The procedure for requiring any person to show cause is by issuing a criminal summons directed to the person
and section 27 requires that a copy of any written order made under section 24 should accompany the criminal summons
and be served on the person
concerned.<o:p></o:p>The
brief facts of the case as can fairly and reasonably be gathered from the
proceedings were as follows: Upon the
basis of an information he received that the life and peace of somebody were in
danger, the learned magistrate made
an order purporting to be an order under section 24 of Act 30. The order is
dated 12 August 1981. The following
day the learned magistrate issued a criminal summons requiring the persons
against whom the orde</main>