THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMM. DIV. A) TAMALE EXPARTE:- DAKPEM ZOBOGUNAA HENRY KALEEM [2015]DLSC3231

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMM. DIV. A) TAMALE EXPARTE:- DAKPEM ZOBOGUNAA HEN... [2015]DLSC3231

Date	2015-06-04
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J5/6/2015
Citation No.	[2015]DLSC3231

ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING)

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC

BENIN JSC

MUSAH MOHAMMED ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT.

NO APPEARANCE FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY.

[2015]DLSC3231
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>HIGH COURT (COMM. DIV.
A) TAMALE<o:p></o:p>EXPARTE:- DAKPEM
ZOBOGUNAA HENRY KALEEM<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. J5/6/2015&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;
DATE: 4TH
JUNE, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MUSAH
MOHAMMED ESQ. 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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NO
APPEARANCE 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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ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING), BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, GBADEGBE
JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC, AND BENIN JSC<o:p></o:p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>BENIN, JSC:- <o:p></o:p>The
High Court (Commercial Division) in Tamale presided over by Noble Nkrumah J. heard
and granted an application for an order of interlocutory injunction on 29th
April 2014 in case number E1/8/2014 titled DAKPEM ZOBOGUNAA HENRY A. KALEEM v.
1. LANDS COMMISSION 2.ATTORNEY-GENERAL 3 DAKPEMA NAA ALHASSAN MOHAMMED DAWUNI.
Whilst Noble Nkrumah J. who made that order was temporarily out of the
jurisdiction, another High Court Judge namely Ayisi Addo J. heard an
application for review of the earlier order and granted same on 29th
September 2014. <o:p></o:p>The
application that was brought before the High Court to seek review was dated 12th
September 2014 and it was served on Counsel for the respondent therein, who is the
applicant herein, the same day. The motion on notice read:<o:p></o:p>MOTION
ON NOTICE FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER OF INTERIM INJUNCTION<o:p></o:p>PLEASE
TAKE NOTICE that the Honourable Court will be moved by Mohammed Alhassan &nbsp;Esq. on behalf of the Applicant herein praying
this Honourable Court for an order reviewing an order of interim injunction
restraining Applicant in relation to the Plaintiff/Respondent’s writ issued on
24/2/2014……….upon the grounds as contained in the supporting affidavit.<o:p></o:p>In
the affidavit in support the deponent recounted the facts from the issuance of
the writ to the grant of the application for interlocutory injunction. He then
recounted the change in circumstances since the grant of the order of
injunction which were causing hardships and injustice to them and this in their
view justified them in coming back to the court for a review of the order. The
respondent, now applicant, did not file any affidavit in answer; he rather
filed an application to stay proceedings the return date of &nbsp;which &nbsp;post-dated
the hearing of &nbsp;the application for
review.<o:p></o:p>The
High Court presided over by Ayisi &nbsp;&nbsp;Addo
J. granted the application for review in these words: “…..I hereby do order that the injunction order granted against the 3rd
defendant and his agents is hereby reviewed and vacated forthwith.”<o:p></o:p>The
applicant herein by this application is invoking this court’s supervisory
jurisdiction to quash and vacate the above order. The reliefs sought are these:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That His Lordship G. Ayisi&nbsp; &nbsp;Addo
J. sitting as a vacation Judge in the High Court (Commercial Division A) Tamale
on 29th September 2014 wrongly assumed jurisdiction under rule 42 of
the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, (2004) C.I. 47 when he reviewed and
vacated the order of interlocutory injunction dated 29th April 2014
granted by the regular High Court Judge, Jerome Noble Nkrumah J. when the said
order is/was not void or plain nullity.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;