NANA OTUO ANTWI BOASIAKO vs. NANA ADJEI PANIN II [2013]DLSC2734

Date	2013-01-22
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J8/23/2013
Citation No.	[2013]DLSC2734

DATE BAH J.S.C. (PRESIDING)

KWAKU ASIRIFI FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT/APPLICANT

COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENTS ABSENT. JAMES ENII LATER APPEARS AS COUNSEL.

[2013]DLSC2734
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA OTUO ANTWI BOASIAKO<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA ADJEI PANIN II<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 APPEAL NO. J8/23/2013&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: 22ND
JANUARY, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>KWAKU ASIRIFI FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT/APPLICANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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COUNSEL
FOR RESPONDENTS ABSENT. JAMES ENII LATER APPEARS AS COUNSEL.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>DATE
BAH J.S.C. (PRESIDING)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>BY&nbsp;&nbsp; COURT;<o:p></o:p>This is a motion on notice for leave to adduce
fresh evidence at the hearing of this appeal, pursuant to Rule 76 of the
Supreme Court Rules, 1996 CI 16. From this rule, it is clear that the primary
rule is that new evidence may not be adduced in an appeal, before this court.
However, there is an exception which allows this Court to permit the adducing
of new evidence relevant to the issue before this court in the interest of
justice. However, before this Court can allow such new evidence it must be
satisfied that with due diligence or enquiry, the evidence could not have been
and was not available to the party applying for leave to adduce new evidence.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Accordingly, before I can grant the applicant the
leave that he seeks, he has to satisfy me on several counts: First, that the
new evidence he seeks to adduce is relevant to the issue or issues before this
court.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Secondly, that due diligence or enquiry could not
have made available to the applicant the evidence concerned, before or during
the trial, and that the evidence was not in fact available to him, and finally
that it would be in the interest of justice for such new evidence to be
allowed.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>First, let me consider the issue of relevance. The
applicant’s case is that during the pendency of the appeal before this court he
stumbled upon a map from the room of a deceased elder of his stool. (Exhibit
NAP) is a photocopy of the map. By his affidavit he states that an enquiry at
Manhyia Palace discovered a similar map (Exhibit NAP II) and that an inquiry
disclosed that the map was used in the determination of the 1927 case which
both parties accept as having determined their boundary. The issue arises that
if the map was used in the determination of the 1927 case, why does it continue
to be relevant. Surely what is relevant is the 1927 judgment and not the map
put in evidence before it. In any case, the respondent denies that any map was
used in the 1927 case. Before this Court, counsel for the applicant has
admitted that the map was not used at the trial Native Tribunal but rather on
appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In my view, the relevance of the map has not been
demonstrated. It is the boundary of the parties as set out in the 1927 judgment
that is relevant and binding and not evidence led later before an appellate
tribunal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Secondly, I do not consider that it would be just
in all the circumstances of this case to lead the additional evidence proposed,
particularly in the light of the fact that the respondent denies that the map
in question played any part in the 1927 proceedings and the applicant has not
exhibited the proceedings on appeal during which he claims the map was
introduced.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Accordingly, leave is refused. Costs of Gh¢1,000
Ghana cedis awarded against the applicant in favour of the respondent.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&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;
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