THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION), LANDS COMMISSION, EX-PARTE: UT PROPERTIES LIMITED AND NII ANNANG NUKPA FAMILY, DANIEL TETTEY COMMEY AND ROBERT TETTEY MENSAH [2020]DLSC10082

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION), LANDS COMMISSION, EX-PARTE:... [2020]DLSC10082

Date	2020-03-18
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/35/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLSC10082

DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING)

APPAU JSC

PWAMANG JSC

DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC

OWUSU (MS) JSC

CHRISTOPHER AMANORTEY AKWESI FOR THE APPLICANT

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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, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION), LANDS COMMISSION, EX-PARTE:
UT PROPERTIES LIMITED AND NII ANNANG NUKPA FAMILY, DANIEL TETTEY COMMEY AND
ROBERT TETTEY MENSAH<o:p></o:p>(1ST
RESPONDENT/2ND RESPONDENT/ APPLICANT/ INTERESTED PARTIES)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME
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;">

CIVIL MOTION
NO. J5/35/2019&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;DATE: 18TH
MARCH, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CHRISTOPHER AMANORTEY AKWESI FOR THE APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING), APPAU JSC, PWAMANG JSC,
DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC, OWUSU (MS) JSC<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;DOTSE JSC:-<o:p></o:p>On the 10th
of March 2020, this court allowed an application at the instance of the
Applicants herein in which they sought an order of Certiorari directed at the
Ruling of the High Court, (Land Division) Accra, Coram Eric Baah J dated 15th
day of April 2014 in Suit No. FAL 291/11 intitutled Robert Tettey Mensah and 2 Others
v Seargent Abdulai Bawa and 7 Others and also a further order of
Certiorari directed to the Registrar of Land Title Registry, Lands Commission,
for cancellation of Land Title Registration Certificate No. &nbsp;TD 13285 and restoration of Land Certificate
No. TD 9221.<o:p></o:p>The grounds of the said application are:-<o:p></o:p>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Breach of
the Rules of natural justice<o:p></o:p>In support of the above ground, the Applicants
allege that the High Court, Land Division Accra, presided over by the Judge
referred to supra in the said Suit on 15th April 2014 breached the
rules of natural justice to wit, the “audi alteram partem rule” when he
delivered a ruling in the matter intitutled Robert Tettey Mensah and 2 others
v Seargent Abdulai Bawa and 7 Others in Suit No. FAL 291/11 and made
orders directing the cancellation of the Applicant’s Land Title Certificate No.
TD 9221 without giving the Applicants an opportunity to be heard.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wednesbury Principle<o:p></o:p>The Registrar of the Land Title Registry, of the
Lands Commission improperly exercised his powers of cancellation when he
purportedly cancelled Land Title Certificate No. TD 9221 belonging to the
Applicant who was neither a party to the Suit No. FAL 291/11 which produced the
Ruling referred to supra that the Lands Commission purportedly relied upon to
cancel Land Title Certificate No. TD 9221 in terms of the Wednesbury principle.<o:p></o:p>BRIEF FACTS<o:p></o:p>In an affidavit sworn to by one Naomi Asantewa
Effah, the Managing Director of the Applicant company, she deposed to the
following facts as follows:-<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the
Applicants as a real estate development company are the owners of a 45 acre
tract of land situate at Sasaabi (Oyibi) covered by Land Certificate No. TD
9221.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The 2nd
Interested Party herein, are the allodial owners of a large tract of land at
Sasaabi near Dodowa a portion of which is covered by Land Certificate No. TD
9221.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;