THE REPUBLIC vs. NII ADAMAH THOMPSON (RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS) EX PARTE: NII TETTEH AHINAKWA II SUB: FRANCIS NII AYIKAI (RESPONDENT) [2009]DLCA7858

THE REPUBLIC vs. NII ADAMAH THOMPSON (RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS) EX PARTE: NII TETT... [2009]DLCA7858

Date	2009-11-19
Suit No.	SUIT NO: HI/76/08
Citation No.	[2009]DLCA7858

B.T. ARYEETEY J. S.C. (PRESIDING)

VICTOR D. OFOE J.A.

F.G. KOBIEH J.A.

NII AKWEI THOMPSON FOR THE RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

NII ADUMUAH BOSSMAN FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT

[2009]DLCA7858
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>NII ADAMAH
THOMPSON<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: NII TETTEH AHINAKWA II SUB: FRANCIS NII AYIKAI<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO: HI/76/08&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:
19TH NOVEMBER, 2009<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NII
AKWEI THOMPSON FOR THE RESPONDENT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NII
ADUMUAH BOSSMAN FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>OFOE J.A.: The
appellants have eleven grounds of appeal against the decision of the trial
court convicting them for contempt of court. The grounds are:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The learned High Court Judge
erred in holding&nbsp; that the appellants had
not&nbsp; complied with the judgment of the
Greater-Accra Regional House of &nbsp;Chiefs
by the&nbsp; handing-over of 10th
September, 2006, when indeed on 22nd&nbsp;
May, 2007, the High Court, Accra presided over by His Lordship Isaac Lartey
Young J, ruled that the handing-over of the Gbese Stool&nbsp; and regalia to the 3rd ruling
house by the appellants on 10th September, 2006 complied with the
judgment and orders of the&nbsp; Judicial
Committee of the Greater-Accra Regional House of Chiefs dated 17th
February, 2003.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The learned trial High Court
Judge erred in law in convicting the appellants of contempt of the judgment of
Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs dated 17th
February, 2003, when appellants had already on 22nd May, 2007 been
convicted and punished by the High court, Accra in relation to the offence of
contempt when the same application for contempt was brought by the same
applicant in Suit No. BMSIC 515/2006 before&nbsp;
the same&nbsp; High&nbsp; Court, Accra for delay&nbsp; in complying. The trial Judge&nbsp; erred when&nbsp;
he held that the principle of double jeopardy was not applicable to the
case of the appellants.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The learned trial Judge was
wrong in law when he held that the contempt application in Suit No. BMSIC
515/2006 was different &nbsp;&nbsp;from the
application before him that is the contempt application in Suit No. BMSIC
299/2007&nbsp; in which&nbsp; the&nbsp; ruling&nbsp; that is being&nbsp;
appealed against was delivered.<o:p></o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The learned trial Judge
erred in holding that the&nbsp; offence of
contempt had been proved against each and all of the appellants by the
applicant.<o:p></o:p>e)&nb</main>