[2023]DLHC16928 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">KWASI SARFO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; 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margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:168.75pt 278.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO: CR/0441/2022 DATE: 10<sup>TH</sup> MAY, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:96.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">IRENE ABORCHIE-NYAHE FOR APPLICANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">GEORGE ANKOMA MENSAH FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:105.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JUSTIN KOFI DORGU <o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.75pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On the 8<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>April 2022, the Applicant herein filed as application for committal for contempt of Court against the Respondent. The gravamen of the Applicant’s case is captured<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>paragraphs<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>4<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>through<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>10<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Affidavit<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Support<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>reproduce hereunder for their full effects;-<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.7pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:46.0pt 334.05pt 370.05pt 406.05pt 407.55pt 444.7pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt">“4.</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> That the High Court Coram Comfort Kwasiwor Tasiame J. settled <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">House</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>No. OFC.142 located at Ofankor Accra on the Applicant. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.7pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:46.0pt 334.05pt 370.05pt 406.05pt 407.55pt 444.7pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Simply<span style="letter-spacing: 4.0pt"> </span>put,<span style="letter-spacing:3.95pt"> </span>the High<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>adjudged<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>House<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>No.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>OFC.142<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">as</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">property</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">of</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">the</span> Applicant.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>Annexed<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>herewith<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>copy<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>marked<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>as Exhibit 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:7.25pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:45.95pt 82.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">That<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>indeed,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>High<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>proceeded<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>restrain<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spaci