THE REPUBLIC vs. HON. AMBROSE DERY AND KWAME TAKYI EX PARTE: ASHOK KUMAR SIVARAM [2017]DLHC4018

Date	2017-07-31
Suit No.	SUIT NO: GJ/1034/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC4018

JUSTICE KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO

GARY NIMAKO MARFO WITH NANABANIN ACKON FOR THE APPLICANT

MS. JASMIN ARMAH WITH PETER NANTOO (ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER)FOR THE RESPONDENTS

[2017]DLHC4018
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>HON. AMBROSE DERY AND KWAME TAKYI EX PARTE: ASHOK KUMAR SIVARAM<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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SUIT NO: GJ/1034/2017&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;DATE: <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
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</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>GARY NIMAKO MARFO WITH NANABANIN ACKON
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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JASMIN ARMAH WITH PETER NANTOO (ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER)FOR THE RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

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KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Introduction/Overview:<o:p></o:p>[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The primary question for resolution in
this application is whether the Minister for Interior, the Honourable Ambrose
Dery exceeded the powers conferred on him by his decision to deport an Indian
National from Ghana on June 1, 2017. That decision was implemented by the 2nd
Respondent, Mr. Kwame Takyi, the Comptroller of Immigration.<o:p></o:p>[2]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Supreme
Court per Adinyira JSC aptly stated the law that it is a basic principle
of common law that Certiorari and Prohibition would be automatically granted to
quash a judgment and to prevent a biased judge from hearing a suit upon
satisfactory proof of breach of any principles of the rules of natural justice<a href="file:///C:/Users/ADDEN/Desktop/res/THE%20REPUBLIC%20VS%20HON.%20AMBROSE%20DERY%20AND%20KWAME%20TAKYI%20EX%20PARTE%20ASHOK%20KUMAR%20SIVARAM.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>.
<o:p></o:p>[3]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is an
application brought under Order 55 Rules
2 and 7 of the High Court (Civil Procedure), 2004 (CI 47)
invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of this court for judicial review in
the nature of Certiorari to quash the Order of the 1 Respondent, Minister of
Interior made on May 15, 2017 and implemented on June 1, 2017.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[4]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By Order 55 Rule 1 of CI 47 an application
for:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order in the nature of Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari or Quo Warranto; or<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;
An injunction restraining a person from acting in any public office in
which the person is not entitled to act; or<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Any other injunction shall be made by way of an application for judicial
review to the High Court.<o:p></o:p>[5]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Applicant
in this present case moves the court for:<o:p></o:p>“……
an Order of Judicial Review in the nature of Certiorari to bring to this
Honourable Court the decision of the Respondents dated 15 May, 2017 which
Respondents used to deport the Applicant from the Jurisdiction of Ghana to
India for the Purposes of having the said Decision/Order quashed on the grounds
contained in the accompanying affidavit…….”<o:p></o:p>