ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT vs. SWEATER AND SOCKS FACTORY LIMITED [2014]DLSC2905

Date	2014-01-29
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J1/12/2013
Citation No.	[2014]DLSC2905

WOOD (MRS.) C.J. PRESIDING

ANSAH J.S.C

DOTSE J.S.C

ANIN YEBOAH J.S.C

GBADEGBE J.S.C

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS.) J.S.C

AKAMBA J.S.C

MRS. SYLVIA ADUSU (PSA) WITH HER ANNA PEARL AKIWUMI SIRIBOE (PSA) FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

GEOFFREY HOWARD QUIST LED BY GEORGE ESHUN AND DAVID KUDOADZI FOR THE DEFENDANT.

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S
DEPARTMENT<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SWEATER AND
SOCKS FACTORY LIMITED<o:p></o:p>[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. J1/12/2013&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;&nbsp;&nbsp; DATE: 29TH JANUARY, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MRS.
SYLVIA ADUSU (PSA) WITH HER ANNA PEARL AKIWUMI SIRIBOE (PSA) FOR THE PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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GEOFFREY
HOWARD QUIST LED BY GEORGE ESHUN AND DAVID KUDOADZI FOR THE DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>WOOD (MRS.) C.J. PRESIDING, ANSAH J.S.C,
DOTSE J.S.C, ANIN YEBOAH J.S.C, GBADEGBE J.S.C, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS.) J.S.C, AKAMBA
J.S.C<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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</div>WOOD
(MRS), C.J,<o:p></o:p>The articles
2(1) and 130 of the 1992 Constitution provide that:<o:p></o:p>2 (1) “A person who alleges that-<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
an enactment or anything contained in
or done, under the authority of that or any other enactment;<o:p></o:p>or<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
any act or omission of any person;<o:p></o:p>is inconsistent with, or is in
contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may bring an action in the
Supreme Court for a declaration to that effect.&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>130 (1)&nbsp;
Subject to the jurisdiction of the High Court in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; enforcement of the Fundamental Human
Rights and Freedoms as provided in article 33 of this Constitution, the Supreme
Court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in-<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
all matters relating to the enforcement
or interpretation of this<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Constitution;”&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>This action,
which is brought under the above constitutional provisions, has its genesis in
the confiscation of the assets of the Defendant, Sweater and Socks Factory
Limited (Sweater and Socks), to the State in 1979. The order of confiscation
was exacted by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)&nbsp;&nbsp; under s. 1 and the Schedule thereof of the
Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Babylos Co. Ltd. and Others
Decree, 1979, (AFRCD 38). The Plaintiff alleges that this confiscation was
never thereafter, at any point in time, reversed, either by virtue of the
Confiscated Assets (Removal of Doubt) Law, 1993, (PNDCL 325) or by the
President acting under the Transitional Provisions of the 1992 Constitution. It
was further alleged that this notwithstanding, the Plaintiff had successfully
sued to recover possession of the assets. The Sovereign Republic of Ghana
describing the court’s orders i</main>