THE REPUBLIC vs. CORPORATE PROTECTION SECURITIES, MAXWELL MALCOM BRONI-APPIAH [2013]DLHC12068

Date	2013-10-25
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FTRM/263/13
Citation No.	[2013]DLHC12068

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JOHN AJET-NASAM

RICHARD GYAMBIBY FOR REPUBLIC

E. A. VORDOAGU FOR RESPONDENT

[2013]DLHC12068
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CORPORATE
PROTECTION SECURITIES, MAXWELL MALCOM BRONI-APPIAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. FTRM/263/13&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: 25TH&nbsp;OCTOBER
2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>RICHARD GYAMBIBY FOR REPUBLIC,<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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JOHN AJET-NASAM<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>The High Court Civil Procedure Rules C. I 47, Order 42 (1)
provides:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">A person who is aggrieved <o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">By a judgment or order from
 which no appeal is allowed or but from which no appeal as been preferred.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">By a judgment or order which no appeal is allowed, may
 upon the discovery of new and important matter or evidence which, after
 the exercise of due diligence, was not within that person’s knowledge or
 could not be produced by the person at the time when the judgment was
 given or the order made, or an account of some mistake or error apparent
 on the face of the record or for any other sufficient reason, apply for a
 review of the judgment or order”.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>The above is the provision upon
which the applicant who had its application dismissed on 29th day of
July 2013 had come before this court to review its ruling. The above order
provides the conditions under which a party can come back to court for review.
It is open to a party who <o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">Discovered new and important
 matter or evidence<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">Such a party could not, after
 the exercise of due diligence could not get such information or evidence.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">Mistake or error on the face of
 the record.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; border: none;">Any other sufficient reason<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>In his argument, counsel for the
applicant on the point of error referred to the case of Republic vrs. High
Court, Accra, Exparte Attorney General (Della Foods Case) 1998-99 SCGLR&nbsp; 595. I am however of the opinion that, what
we have here is&nbsp; distinguishable from the
Della Foods case. In Mechanical Lloyd Assembly Plant Ltd vrs. Nartey
[1987-1988] 2 GLR 598 at 603-604 Adade JSC pointed out:<o:p></o:p>“The review jurisdiction is a
special jurisdiction to be exercised in exceptional circumstances. It is not an
appellate jurisdiction. It is a kind of jurisdiction held in reserve, to be
prayed in aid the exceptional situation where a fundamental and basic error may
have inadvertently been committed by the court, which error must have
occasioned a gross mismarriage of justice. The review jurisdiction is not
intended as a try on by a party after losing an appeal; nor is it an automatic
next step from an appeal; neither is meant to be resorted to as an emotional
reaction to an unfovour</main>