THE REPUBLIC vs. LOVELY NORKOR ARMAH EX-PARTE: GEORGE KWABENA ADJEI [2023]DLHC16930

Date	2023-07-10
Suit No.	SUIT NO: CR/0329/2022
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16930

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JUSTIN KOFI DORGU

HANS AWUDEY

ALEXANDER QUARTEY

[2023]DLHC16930
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>LOVELY NORKOR ARMAH<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE: GEORGE KWABENA ADJEI<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&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;&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><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;">

HANS AWUDEY FOR APPLICANT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM&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>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JUSTIN
KOFI DORGU<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>In the course of a pending case at the High
Court involving the Parties herein for reliefs which include declaration of
title to a piece of land and order for perpetual injunction, the High Court,
differently constituted granted an order of interim injunction against the
Parties on the 23rd day of November, 2020.<o:p></o:p>Then
on or about the 18th February, 2022, the Applicant
herein George Kwabena
Adjei took out the instant application under Order 50 rule 1(1) of the
High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I 47) praying the Honourable Court to
convict and commit to prison the Respondent for contempt of Court. The
Applicant supported his application with a 22 paragraph
Affidavit in Support
to which he attached several
Exhibits and a supplementary Affidavit filed with the leave of the Court on the
26th January, 2021.<o:p></o:p>The gravamen of the Applicant’s case
is as deposed to in the following paragraphs which I set down hereunder for
their full effects. They are paragraphs 12 through to 20 of the Affidavit in
Support to wit;-<o:p></o:p>“12.
That the Honourable Court on 23rd November,
2020 heard and granted the Applicant’s motion for Interim Injunction<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.85pt;margin-bottom:
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