THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL DIVISION) EX-PARTE; ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND PAPA KWESI NDUOM [2016]DLSC2788

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL DIVISION) EX-PARTE; ELECTORAL COMMISSIO... [2016]DLSC2788

Date	2016-11-01
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J5/7/2017
Citation No.	[2016]DLSC2788

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 AND 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]DLSC2788
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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) EX-PARTE; ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND PAPA KWESI NDUOM<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">&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. J5/7/2017&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: NOVEMBER, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<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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AYIKOO
OTOO WITH HIM GARY NIMAKO MARFO, FELIX OGRAH, DENNIS OFOSU APPIAH, NAA DJAMA
AYIKOO OTOO AND BARBARA BROWN 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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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING), ANIN YEBOAH JSC,
BAFFOE- BONNIE JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC, BENIN JSC, APPAU JSC, AND PWAMANG
JSC<o:p></o:p>

</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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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</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>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 papers would be received by returning officers fo</main>