THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION) (RESPONDENT) EX PARTE ELECTORAL COMMISSION (APPLICANT) AND PAPA KWESI NDOUM [2016]DLCA4489

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION) (RESPONDENT) EX PARTE ELECTORA... [2016]DLCA4489

Date	2016-11-07
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/7/2017
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA4489

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING)

ANIN YEBOAH JSC

BAFFOE- BONNIE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC

BENIN JSC

APPAU JSC

PWAMANG JSC

THADDEUS SORY WITH HIM SEAN OPOKU SANJA ANITA MORRISON

REINDOLF TWUMASI ANKRAH FOR THE APPLICANT

AYIKOO OTOO WITH HIM GARY NIMAKO MARFO FELIX OGRAH

DENNIS OFOSU APPIAH NAA DJAMA AYIKOO OTOO AND BARBARA BROWN FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY

[2016]DLCA4489
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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 (COMMERCIAL DIVISION)<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE ELECTORAL
COMMISSION (APPLICANT) AND PAPA KWESI NDOUM
(INTERESTED
PARTY)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, 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
MOTION NO. J5/7/2017&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;7TH NOVEMBER, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>THADDEUS SORY WITH HIM SEAN OPOKU, SANJA ANITA
MORRISON, AND REINDOLF TWUMASI ANKRAH 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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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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(MRS) JSC (PRESIDING), ANIN YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE- BONNIE JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS)
JSC, BENIN JSC, APPAU JSC, PWAMANG JSC<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>SOPHIA
ADINYIRA (MRS.) JSC (PRESIDING): <o:p></o:p>The
application before this Court invokes the supervisory jurisdiction of the Court
against the High Court (Commercial
Division), Accra praying this Court for an order of certiorari to bring up into
this Court for purposes of being quashed the ruling of His Lordship Justice
Eric Kyei Baffour dated the 28th day of October, 2016 upon the facts deposed to
in the accompanying affidavit. <o:p></o:p>The
grounds for the application are as follows:<o:p></o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Error of law on
the face of the record.<o:p></o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Wrongful
assumption of jurisdiction by the High Court (Commercial Division), Accra.<o:p></o:p>iii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Excess of
jurisdiction.<o:p></o:p>The
brief facts of the case are as follows:<o:p></o:p>The
Applicant is the Electoral Commission constitutionally mandated to organize
presidential and parliamentary elections including receiving nominations of
candidates. Apart from the Constitution 1992, there are other pieces of legislation
such as the Representation of the Peoples Act (PNDCL284) and the Public
Elections Regulations, 2016 (C.I 94), which set up the legal regulatory
framework for the conduct of general elections in Ghana.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Interested Party is the Presidential Candidate for the Progressive Peoples
Party (PPP) for the 2016 elections.<o:p></o:p>For
the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Applicant opened
nominations on 13th September 2016 and invited candidates to go for
nomination forms.&nbsp; At an IPAC meeting
held on the 8th day of September 2016, the Applicant announced to
the various Political Parties that the nomination
days shall be the 29th and 30th of September 2016,
when all nomination paper</main>