THE REPUBLIC vs. RICHARD ADJEI , EX-PARTE: DR LAWRENCIA MANU AND MR EDWARD MANU [2021]DLHC11999

Date	2021-12-06
Suit No.	CASE NO. CR/0652/2021
Citation No.	[2021]DLHC11999

HIS LORDSHIP CHARLES GYAMFI DANQUAH J.

T.N. WARDBREW ESQ.FOR THE APPLICANTS

ABDUL-AZIZ MOHAMMED ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2021]DLHC11999
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>RICHARD ADJEI<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE: DR LAWRENCIA MANU AND MR EDWARD
MANU<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CASE NO. CR/0652/2021&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&nbsp;&nbsp;DECEMBER 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p>T.N.
WARDBREW ESQ.FOR THE APPLICANTS,<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;">

ABDUL-AZIZ MOHAMMED ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP CHARLES
GYAMFI DANQUAH J.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;INTRODUCTION <o:p></o:p>The Applicants on the 27th July, 2021 filed the
present contempt application against the Respondent for wilfully and
deliberately trespassing and developing a land belonging to the Plaintiffs/Applicants
and using the police to intimidate the 2nd Applicant and warned him
not to step on the land. The Applicants plaint again is that the Respondent
should be committed for contempt for bringing armed policemen to his school
whilst the school was in session, thereby making the school children panic and
calling their parents to inform them about the presence of armed policemen in
the school so that parents started to call the 2nd Applicant to find
out if he had committed any criminal offence. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The manner in which the grounds of the application were
framed in the motion paper do appear that they cannot be the grounds upon which
a Respondent could be committed for contempt. <o:p></o:p>However, there is an affidavit in support of the application
and would wait to see whether the reasons are well laid therein.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION<o:p></o:p>The affidavit in support was sworn to by the 2nd
Plaintiff/Applicant alone. In the amended statement of claim filed on 14th
March, 2019 it has been stated that the land in dispute belong to the 1st
Plaintiff/Applicant. The 1st Applicant is the daughter of the 2nd
Applicant. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;However, in the affidavit in support the 2nd
Applicant deposed as if the property in dispute belonged to the 1st
and 2nd Applicants and as if the 1st Applicant is the
only Applicant for the application for committal for contempt. Meanwhile, the 2nd
Applicant at the same time kept on deposing in the affidavit as if the property
belonged to him. The 2nd Applicant never stated in the affidavit
that he was deposing to the affidavit on behalf of the 1st Applicant.
The truth is that the contents of the affidavit in support are confusing. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;There is also the problem with the process </main>