THE REPUBLIC vs. MICHEAL AMARTEY LARYEA AND 3 OTHERS vs. EX-PARTE: NII KLU ANUM 1 [2019]DLCA6313

THE REPUBLIC vs. MICHEAL AMARTEY LARYEA AND 3 OTHERS vs. EX-PARTE: NII KLU ANUM... [2019]DLCA6313

Date	2019-01-22
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO: H1/103/17
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA6313

GYAESAYOR JA (PRESIDING)

HONYENUGA JA

B. ACKAH-YENSU JA

HALAALI NCHUAKUNG FOR THE APPELLANTS

MR. G. QUIST FOR RESPONDENTS

[2019]DLCA6313
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MICHEAL
AMARTEY LARYEA AND 3 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE:
NII KLU ANUM 1<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDNET)<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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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO: H1/103/17 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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
JANUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL
<o:p></o:p>HALAALI NCHUAKUNG FOR THE
APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
G. QUIST FOR RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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GYAESAYOR JA (PRESIDING), HONYENUGA JA, B. ACKAH-YENSU
JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>GYAESAYOR, JA<o:p></o:p>In
a ruling dated 13th day of January 2017 the High Court Accra,
convicted and sentenced the respondent/appellant to five days’ imprisonment for
contempt.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Not
happy with their conviction and sentence for contempt, the appellants issued a
notice of appeal dated 19th January 2017.&nbsp; The said notice of appeal is found at page
170 of the record of appeal (ROA).&nbsp;
Additional grounds were filed and canvassed in the hearing of the
appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
grounds of appeal set out 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;
The finding of the learned trial judge that
the respondents had committed the act of contempt was against the weight of the
evidence.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The applicant failed to discharge the
burden of proof on him.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>iii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The judge erred by failing to address the
issue of the requisite notice of the order/judgment allegedly transgressed:<o:p></o:p></p</main>