THE REPUBLIC vs. JAMIL MOUGANIE EX PARTE: WISSAM LABA [2022]DLHC11769

Date	2022-07-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO. GJ/0756/2021
Citation No.	[2022]DLHC11769

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI

AUGUSTINE KIDISIL FOR THE APPLICANT

NUTIFAFA NUTSUKPUI FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2022]DLHC11769
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JAMIL MOUGANIE<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: WISSAM
LABA<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT /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: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>AUGUSTINE KIDISIL FOR THE 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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI<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>On 12th May
2022, the Applicant herein (Wissam Laba) filed motion on notice before this
court.&nbsp; The motion is praying for an
order to commit Jamil Mouganie (hereinafter called the Respondent) to prison
for contempt of court.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>The Applicant’s contention
in the motion paper is that the Respondent has brought the Administration of
Justice into disrepute. &nbsp;The motion is
supported by affidavit and exhibits.<o:p></o:p>I wish to reproduce the
relevant paragraphs of the affidavit in support in this decision.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am the Applicant in the
instant application and the deponent to this affidavit.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am advised by counsel,
and I believe same to be true that the Respondent has acted with intent to
interfere with and prejudice the fair hearing of an action pending before this
Honourable Court (differently constituted) despite his knowledge of the said
action.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:67.5pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
I am further advised by counsel, and I believe same to
be true that despite the pendency of an action before the court challenging the
validity of his dismissal from the employment of the Company, the Respondent
has returned to the company’s premises and held himself out as an employee of
the Company.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Respondent is a former
employee of the company who held the position of Assistant General Manager.<o:p></o:p>