THE REPUBLIC vs. THE CIRCUIT COURT, TAMALE ABDULAI SIRTA: EX-PARTE AYAABA [2021]DLCA10813

Date	2021-06-25
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/8/2017
Citation No.	[2021]DLCA10813

JUSTICE VICTOR OFOE (MR.) J.A (PRESIDING)

JUSTICE JANAPARE A. BARTELS-KODWO (MRS.) J.A.

JUSTICE SOPHIA R. BERNASKO ESSAH (MRS.) J.A.

SALIA ABDUL-QUDDUS ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

SYLVESTER ISANG ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT RESPONDENT

[2021]DLCA10813
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE CIRCUIT COURT, TAMALE<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>ABDULAI SIRTA: EX-PARTE
AYAABA<o:p></o:p>(INTERESTED PARTY)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, 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;">

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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/8/2017&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;DATE:25TH &nbsp;JUNE,
2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SALIA ABDUL-QUDDUS ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT/APPELLANT<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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -18pt;">

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ISANG ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>JUSTICE VICTOR OFOE (MR.) J.A (PRESIDING), JUSTICE
JANAPARE A. BARTELS-KODWO (MRS.) J.A.,
JUSTICE SOPHIA R. BERNASKO ESSAH (MRS.) J.A.<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>&nbsp;BARTELS-KODWO J.A. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;This is an
appeal by the Respondent/Appellant (to be known here as the Appellant) i. e.
the Republic against the Ruling of the High Court, Tamale dated 24th
February, 2017 granting the Applicant/Respondent (to be known here as the
Respondent) an application for Judicial Review in the nature of Certiorari
quashing the conviction and sentence of the Respondent by the Circuit Court,
Tamale dated 7th September, 2016. This conviction had earlier been
affirmed by the High Court on 15th February, 2017 in its judgment in
respect of an Appeal by the Respondent on 28th September, 2016
against his conviction and sentence.<o:p></o:p>FACTS&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; <o:p></o:p>Upon a
complaint by the interested party employer of the Respondent to the police the
Respondent was charged with one count of stealing and put before the Circuit
Court, Tamale. It is the case that the Complainant, a licensed gold buyer
installed a machine for crashing gold bearing rocks at his mine site in Wasipe
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