THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (NPP) AND 4 OTHERS vs. IBRAHIM FELIX AND 7 OTHERS [2016]DLCA4461

Date	2016-04-12
Suit No.	Civil Appeal No. No: H1/23/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA4461

E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA

[2016]DLCA4461
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY (NPP) AND 4
OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>IBRAHIM FELIX AND 7 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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. No: H1/23/2016&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;Tuesday, 12th April, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, GERTRUDE TORKORNOO
(MRS.) JA, ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AYEBI,
JA<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This interlocutory appeal arose out of
a ruling of the High Court Kumasi dated 6th June 2015.&nbsp; In the suit itself, the
plaintiffs/respondents claimed the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
order of the Court setting aside the consent/compromise judgment entered by the
High Court, Accra dated the 29th day of August 2014, in the suit
entitled “Kwabena Owusu-Ansah and 2
Others vrs New Patriotic Party &amp; Or. with suit No. BIMSC 634/2014 on the grounds of fraud through misrepresentation,
willful deceit, collusion and conscious violation of rules of natural justice
and of court.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration that the plaintiffs being the validly elected constituency
Executives/officers of the New Patriotic Party for the Manhyia North
Constituency in the Ashanti Region of the Republic of Ghana remain as such
Executives/officers for all purposes relating to their respective offices.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
order of injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, privies and
workmen from denying the plaintiffs the enjoyment and exercise of their rights
and the performance of their duties as officers/Executives of the 1st
defendant’s Political Party for the Manhyia North Constituency including their
participation in the 2016 parliamentary primaries of the 1st
defendant’s Political Party.<o:p></o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cost
including solicitor’s fees<o:p></o:p>e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Any
further order as the Honourable Court may deem fit.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Upon service of this writ of summons on all
the defendants, the 2nd to 4th defendants/appellants
herein entered a conditional appearance and filed on 10th June 2015
an application to dismiss the action based on the inherent jurisdiction of the
court and Order 2 r.3(2) and r.5; Order 9 rule 8, and Order 11 r.18(1)(d) of
C.I. 47.&nbsp; The defendants/applicants therein
attached a written submission to the application and at the hearing, relied on
it.&nbsp; The counsel for the
plaintiffs/respondents opposed the application in an oral submission.&nbsp; In its ruling dated 6th June 2014,
the court dismissed the application in the first place for the violation of
procedural convention and rules of court namely that the inherent jurisdiction
of the court should not be invoked in the face of an express rule relating to
the matter or specific situation and an application consequent upon the entry
of a conditional appearance should be filed within 14 days.&</main>