EDMUND ADDO vs ATTORNEY GENERAL [2019]DLHC16344

Date	2019-06-06
Suit No.	SUIT NO. HR/04/2019
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC16344

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE NICHOLAS M.C. ABODAKPI J.

CLETUS ALENGAH ESQ

JUSTICE SREM-SAI ESQ

STELLA OHENE APPIAH ESQ

[2019]DLHC16344
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432">EDMUND ADDO<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>ATTORNEY GENERAL<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SUIT NO. HR/04/2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 6TH JUNE 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>JUSTICE SREM-SAI ESQ.
APPEARING WITH CLETUS ALENGAH, ESQ. FOR APPLICANT <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

STELLA OHENE APPIAH
ESQ. FOR RESPONDENT PRESENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM
<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP
JUSTICE NICHOLAS M.C. ABODAKPI J.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div><h1 style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</h1><h1 style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%">BY
COURT:<o:p></o:p></h1>The Applicant
in this interlocutory application for stay of proceedings is praying for an
order to stay proceedings in the
criminal trial before
the Circuit Court
‘5’, Accra. The motion has
been filed on 04/04/2019. On 12/03/2019, applicant filed an application for an
order to restrain the Attorney General/Respondent, herein from interfering with his right to fair trial and education. The main issues in the
substantive application is the propriety in starting the trial of Applicant de novo, on charges preferred against him at the Circuit
Court ‘5’, Accra, which has been pending for years. The deposition of Applicant in support of this application is to the effect that he was arrested on 27/05/2016 and arraigned
on 02/06/2016 on charges of defilement and child pornography. And for the past two and a half years the trial has been on going, but upon the transfer
of H/H Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin –Opoku the trial Judge, the new Judge [H/H Rita
Abrokwa Doko (Mrs.)], who has taken over, has stated the trial, has to commence
de novo. It is Applicant’s contention
that his right to a fair trial and education will be affected adversely. And with his application to enforce rights
as a fore mentioned, pending
in this Court, the commencement of the trial de novo in the Circuit
Court, will be prejudicial. And grave hardship and injustice will occur in relation to the rights he is seeking to enforce. In opposition, the Respondent contended that, this application is only calculated to further delay the trial of Applicant and to deny justice </main>