THE REPUBLIC vs. THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX-PARTE: WILLIAM ADDAE-ATCHEWEREBUO AND OTHERS, INTERESTED PARTIES; DAASEBRE ASARE BAAH III AND OTHERS [2010]DLSC4138

THE REPUBLIC vs. THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX-PARTE: WILLIAM ADDAE-ATCHEWEREBUO AND... [2010]DLSC4138

Date	2010-02-11
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/26/2009
Citation No.	[2010]DLSC4138

WOOD (MRS) CJ (PRESIDING)

ANSAH JSC

OWUSU (MS) JSC

DOTSE JSC

ANIN YEBOAH JSC

JOHN A. NDEBUGRE ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANTS.

AKWASI BOSOMPEM ESQ. FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES.

CLARENCE KUWORNU C.S.A. FOR THE 1ST THIRD PARTY.

[2010]DLSC4138
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX-PARTE:
WILLIAM ADDAE-ATCHEWEREBUO AND OTHERS, INTERESTED PARTIES; DAASEBRE ASARE
BAAH III AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/26/2009&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: 11TH FEBRUARY, 2010<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>JOHN A. NDEBUGRE ESQ. FOR
THE APPLICANTS.<o:p></o:p>AKWASI BOSOMPEM ESQ. FOR
THE INTERESTED PARTIES.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CLARENCE
KUWORNU C.S.A. FOR THE 1ST, THIRD PARTY. <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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WOOD
(MRS) CJ (PRESIDING), ANSAH JSC, OWUSU (MS) JSC, DOTSE JSC, AND ANIN YEBOAH JSC<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>DOTSE,
JSC:-<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On the 15th day of June, 2009, the
Applicants herein, describing themselves variously as the elected Assembly
members for the Tepo, Tepa-Manya, Akposo-Kabo and Bowiri Amanfrom electoral
areas in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region of the Republic of Ghana
respectively, brought the instant application seeking to invoke the supervisory
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court for certiorari and prohibition directed at
the High Court Accra then presided over by Mrs. Justice Agyeman Bempah for the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
To quash the
order of interlocutory injunction of the court dated 13th day of
May, 2009 as well as other proceedings giving rise thereto, and <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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To prohibit the
said High Court from continuing to exercise jurisdiction in the suit in which
the order of interlocutory injunction was made, namely suit No. BMISC.
373/2008 titled Daasabre Asare Baah III and four others vrs. The
Attorney-General and Another.<o:p></o:p>The grounds upon which the application has been
based can briefly be summarized as follows:-<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the High
Court ordinarily has no JURISDICTION to strike down legislation as illegal or
void having regard to the provisions of article 130 (1) (b) of the Constitution
1992.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</main>