THE REPUBLIC vs NEW JUABEN DISTRICT ASSEMBLY KOFORIDUA, THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL GOSPEL CHURCH, KOFORIDUA EX PARTE: THE REGISTERED TRUSTEE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH DIOCESE OF KOFORIDUA, THE BISHOP’S OFFICE, SRODAE-KOFORIDUA [2023]DLSC16122

THE REPUBLIC vs NEW JUABEN DISTRICT ASSEMBLY KOFORIDUA, THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES... [2023]DLSC16122

Date	2023-07-05
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/72/2021
Citation No.	[2023]DLSC16122

LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC (PRESIDING)

PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

KULENDI JSC

ACKAH-YENSU (MS.) JSC

ASIEDU JSC

SIR STEPHEN ASANTE-ANSONG ESQ.

FRANK G. DONKOR ESQ.

[2023]DLSC16122
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NEW JUABEN
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY KOFORIDUA, THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL
GOSPEL CHURCH, KOFORIDUA<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">&nbsp;EX PARTE: THE
REGISTERED TRUSTEE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH DIOCESE OF KOFORIDUA, THE BISHOP’S OFFICE,
SRODAE-KOFORIDUA<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="font-size: 18px !important; 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:
justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL
APPEAL NO. J4/72/2021&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: 5TH &nbsp;JULY, 2023<o:p></o:p>

</div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">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;&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>SIR
STEPHEN ASANTE-ANSONG ESQ. FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT/ APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

FRANK G. DONKOR ESQ. FOR 2ND&nbsp;&nbsp;RESPONDENT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

</div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">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;&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>LOVELACE-JOHNSON
(MS.) JSC (PRESIDING), PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC, KULENDI JSC, ACKAH-YENSU
(MS.) JSC, ASIEDU JSC <o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: 18px !important; 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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
ZH-CN">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>PWAMANG JSC:-<o:p></o:p>My Lords, this appeal emanates from an application for Judicial Review
filed in the High Court, Koforidua on 1st October, 2015 by the
applicant/respondent/appellant (the applicant) against the New Juaben District
Assembly. However, the applicant added the Trustees of the International
Central Gospel Church of Koforidua as 2nd respondent. It is a highly unusual
practice in our jurisdiction to make a private legal entity a respondent to an
application for Judicial Review of an administrative action which action was
not taken by that private legal entity. Where any person stands to be affected
by the outcome of an application for Judicial Review, either of an
administrative action or of a decision of a lower court or adjudicatory body,
that party is stated in the originating motion as an interested party, which is
the term used in Order 55 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004
(C.I.47) that deals with applications for Judicial Review. We shall address
that matter in more detail in fra, but
for the consistency of the proceedings in this appeal, we shall in this
judgment refer to the interested party as 2nd respondent.<o:p></o:p>