THE REPUBLIC vs. THE HIGH COURT EX PARTE: FRANCIS NII AYIKAI [2014]DLSC2929

Date	2014-07-31
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.J5/2/2014
Citation No.	[2014]DLSC2929

WOOD (MRS) C.J (PRESIDING)

OWUSU J.S.C.

DOTSE J.S.C.

YEBOAH J.S.C.

AKAMBA J.S.C.

W. A. N. ADUMUA BOSSMAN ESQ. WITH HIM HUMPHREY MODZAKAH FOR THE APPLICANT.

ALBERT ADAARE ESQ. FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY.

[2014]DLSC2929
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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<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: FRANCIS NII
AYIKAI<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.J5/2/2014&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:31ST JULY, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>W. A. N. ADUMUA BOSSMAN
ESQ. WITH HIM HUMPHREY MODZAKAH FOR THE APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ALBERT
ADAARE ESQ. FOR THE INTERESTED 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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</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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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>OWUSU
(MS), JSC.<o:p></o:p>The Applicant herein is
invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of the court under Article 132 of the
constitution by way of Judicial review in an application for an order of
certiorari to bring up and quash a judgment of His Lordship E. A. &nbsp;Asante delivered on 23rd of May
2013 in Suit No.AHR 101/2012 entitled:<o:p></o:p>NII
AKOSOKU&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; PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>VRS<o:p></o:p>FRANCIS
AYIKAI&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; DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>The
grounds on which the application is premised are the following:<o:p></o:p>“
(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial Judge committed an error
of law apparent on the face of the record by failing to wait for the Supreme
Court’s appellate determination of the primary issue of the capacity or locus standi of the Plaintiff, i.e. the
interested Party/Respondent herein, before delivering his substantive judgment
on 23rd May 2013.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ALTERNATIVELY the trial Judge had no
jurisdiction to proceed to deliver final judgment in Suit No. ARH.101/2012
entitled NII AKOSOKU IV VRS
FRANCIS AYIKAI during the pendency in the Supreme Court of the said
preliminary issue of capacity or locus
standi of the Interested Party.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The trial Judge had no jurisdiction to make
an order adjourning for final judgment the trial before him during the pendency
in the Court of Appeal of the motion for a stay of proceedings in Suit No:
ARH.101/2012 in his court.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(iv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The trial Judge had no jurisdiction to set
aside, as he purported to do, the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the
Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Dodowa, dated 17th February
2013, as the instant Suit No. ARH. 101/2012 pending before him did not invoke
his supervisory jurisdiction, and he was otherwise acting contrary to section
76 of the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 7</main>