THE REPUBLIC vs. EBENEZER LAMPTEY EX-PARTE: REGINA LAMPTEY [2023]DLHC16823

Date	2023-07-26
Suit No.	SUIT NO. E12/OHC/025/2023
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16823

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE DOREEN GENEVIEVE BOAKYE-AGYEI

PROF. EMMANUEL SELASE ASAMOAH ESQ

MR. ALEX K. MENSAH

MR. ROBERT TWENE ESQ

[2023]DLHC16823
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EBENEZER LAMPTEY<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;EX-PARTE: REGINA LAMPTEY<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, KASOA-OFAAKOR]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

PROF. EMMANUEL SELASE
ASAMOAH ESQ. FOR RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

MR. ALEX K. MENSAH HOLDING
BRIEF FOR MR. ROBERT TWENE ESQ. FOR APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE DOREEN
GENEVIEVE BOAKYE-AGYEI<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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Applicant has before the Court,
a motion on notice praying for an order to commit
the Respondent to prison for his contumacious disregard and interference towards the administration of justice so as to prevent people of
similar minds from interfering with court processes and the administration of
justice.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Applicant’s Counsel relies on the motion
paper and all the annexures attached to the
application as Exhibits A, B, C, &amp; D series. It is the case of the Applicant that she commenced an action
against the Respondent as Omanbatan of her family at the District Court, Kasoa. That during the course of the proceedings,
an injunction application was filed and was granted by the District Court, a
copy of the injunction application has been attached as Exhibit A. It is Applicant’s case that when the
injunction was granted, the Applicant caused a copy of the order granting the
interlocutory injunction to be served on the Respondent and a copy of proof of
service is attached to the instant application as Exhibit B which was served on
the Respondent on the 27th day of May, 2022. Applicant contends that having served a
copy of the order on the Respondent, he has disregarded this order and is interfering with the subject matter of the
dispute by grading portion of the land and putting up unlawful structures
through his agents and privies of which they attached to the instant
application the Exhibit D series.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Applicant’s Counsel again submits that
with or without the order of the Court, that
is