CLAUDE OPPON vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO PAYMENTS FROM PUBLIC FUNDS ARISING FROM JUDGMENT DEBTS AND RELATED PROCESSES [2017]DLSC2592

CLAUDE OPPON vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO PAYMENTS FR... [2017]DLSC2592

Date	2017-06-22
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J1/11/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLSC2592

AKUFFO (MS) CJ PRESIDING

ATUGUBA JSC

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC

DOTSE JSC

YEBOAH JSC

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC

BENIN JSC

L. S. N. AKUETTEH FOR THE PLAINTIFF

DOROTHY AFRIYIE ANSAH (MRS) SENIOR STATE ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >CLAUDE OPPON<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND COMMISSION
OF INQUIRY INTO PAYMENTS FROM PUBLIC FUNDS ARISING FROM JUDGMENT DEBTS AND
RELATED PROCESSES<o:p></o:p>&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. J1/11/2017&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DATE: 22ND
JUNE, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>L. S. N. AKUETTEH FOR THE
PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DOROTHY
AFRIYIE ANSAH (MRS), SENIOR STATE ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>AKUFFO (MS), CJ PRESIDING ATUGUBA, JSC ADINYIRA
(MRS), JSC DOTSE, JSC YEBOAH, JSC BAFFOE-BONNIE, JSC AND BENIN, JSC<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>&nbsp; ATUGUBA, JSC:-<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff by his writ herein claims as
follows:<o:p></o:p>“1. A
declaration that the Commission of
Inquiry into payments from &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public
Funds Arising from Judgment Debts and Related Processes appointed by His
Excellency the President of the Republic by C.I. 79 on 8th October, 2012 has no lawful authority to
reopen, review and/or declare any decision, order or judgment of any court of
competent jurisdiction an error of law or a nullity.<o:p></o:p>2. A declaration that by the findings and
recommendations made by the Commission in respect of Suit No. RPC/152/2010- intituled
Alfred Agbesi Woyome vrs. The Attorney
General and the case intituled Sky
Consult vrs. Ghana Post Company the Commission exceeded its jurisdiction
and purported to exercise judicial power contrary to Articles 125(1), 3) and
(5); 127(1) and (2); 129(1); and 137 of the Constitution of Ghana.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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l5 level1 lfo1">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A declaration that the ‘findings and
recommendations’ of the said Commission on the two cases and the Government
White Paper thereon amounts to an interference in the judicial process and
violation of the independence of the judiciary as enshrined in the 1992
Constitution and to that extent void and of no effect whatsoever.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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l5 level1 lfo1">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order directed at the Defendants to expunge
from their records the said findings, recommendations and the Government White
Paper thereon.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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l5 level1 lfo1">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order of perpetual injunction restraining the
Defendants, their agents, servants, privies and persons claiming through them
from ever referring to, relying on, or using the said findings, recommendations
and the Government White Paper thereon on the said two cases for any purposes
whatsoever.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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l5 level1 lfo1">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any further orders and directions as this Honourable
Court may consider appropriate for giving effect to the declarations so made.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>