CHANCELLOR OPPONG KYEKYEKU KOHL vs. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2016]DLCA4517

Date	2016-01-28
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/153/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA4517

MARIAMA OWUSU JA (PRESIDING)

ADUAMA OSEI JA

TANKO AMADU JA

MADAM EVELYN APPIAH FOR DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT (STATE ATTORNEY)

CHANCELLOR OPPONG KYEKYEKU KOHL FOR HIMSELF

[2016]DLCA4517
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">CHANCELLOR
OPPONG KYEKYEKU KOHL
<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p>THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">CIVIL APPEAL NO:&nbsp; H1/153/2015&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;DATE: 28TH JANUARY,
2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MADAM EVELYN APPIAH FOR
DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT (STATE ATTORNEY)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CHANCELLOR
OPPONG KYEKYEKU KOHL FOR HIMSELF<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">CORAM: <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MARIAMA
OWUSU JA (PRESIDING), ADUAMA OSEI JA, TANKO AMADU JA<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>ADUAMA OSEI<o:p></o:p>By
his writ of summons issued in the High Court, Accra, on the 15th of October,
2010, the Plaintiff/Appellant, hereinafter called “the Plaintiff”, claimed
17 reliefs against 6 defendants, who were all government officials or
institutions. The names of 5 of the defendants were subsequently struck out,
leaving the Attorney-General as the sole Defendant. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
essence of the several reliefs indorsed on the writ of summons was to obtain an
order of the trial Court for the payment to the Plaintiff by the Government of
Ghana of the sum of £254,000.00, being the total compensation allegedly paid by
the British Authorities to the Ghana High Commission in London on or about the 15th
of November, 2003, for onward transmission to him, which the Government of Ghana
had allegedly refused or failed to pay to him in spite of persistent demands,
and an order for the delivery to him of a University of London LL.B degree
certificate, First Class, which the British Authorities of the University of
London had allegedly delivered to the Ghana High Commission in London on or
about the 15th of November, 2003, for onward transmission to him,
which the Government of Ghana had allegedly refused or failed to deliver to him
in spite of persistent demands.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Plaintiff’s writ of summons was accompanied by a 52-paragraph statement of claim
which, much against the rules of pleadings, was suffused with evidence. The
material allegations on the statement of claim were to the effect that the
Plaintiff commenced a law course at the London School of Law of the University
of London as a full time student and completed in June, 2001. After the final
examinations, when the list of candidates was published, his name was not on
it. The Plaintiff appealed against the omission of his name from the list of
candidates and it emerged from investigations that he had in fact passed the
examinations with first class and that his name had not appeared on the list of
candidates because, as a result of an oversight, some of his marks in the final
year had not been credited to him.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Following
several intervening events, he won a court order for the payment to him of
compensation totalling £254,000.00, and the issuance to him of the LL.B
certificate. Subsequently, the Plaintiff was deported to Ghana but he had
information that both his LL.B certificate and the compensation sum of
£254,000.00 had been handed to the Ghana High Commission in London on 15th
November, 2003 for onward transmission to him. Neither the certificate nor the
compensation sum has however been handed to him in spite of persistent demands.
<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On
behalf of the At</main>