AKUFO-ADDO AND OTHERS
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QUARSHIE IDUN AND OTHERS

JELR 86385 (CA)

Court of Appeal Ghana
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- The Court of Appeal set aside the High Court’s interim injunction restraining the Chief Justice and Judicial Secretary from interfering with the plaintiffs’ right of audience, holding that such an injunction against public officers, where

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Judges:AMISSAH J.A., KINGSLEY-NYINAH, ARCHER, BAIDOO AND ANNAN JJ.
Counsel:R. J. Hayfron-Benjamin, Solicitor-General (F. Sarkodee, State Attorney, with him), for the appellants. J. Mercer (Bentsi-Enchill with him) for the first respondent. Kofi Sackey for the second respondent. T. D. Brodie-Mends (Sarpong with him) for the third respondent.
Other Citations:[1968] GLR 667 - 688

AMISSAH, J.A.

This is an appeal from a decision of Anterkyi J. granting an interim injunction against some of the defendants in this action. The three plaintiffs, each of whom is a lawyer of considerable standing in the community, sued the Chief Justice, the Judicial Secretary and the General Legal Council. The plaintiffs complained that through the conduct of the defendants, namely, by the issue of certain circulars to judicial officers they had been denied their right of audience as barristers in the courts. They therefore sought a declaration of that right together with an injunction to restrain the defendants from interfering with its exercise. After issuing their writ and filing their statement of claim the plaintiffs made the application for the interim injunction. Argument having been heard, the learned judge gave a considered ruling in which he concluded that:

"In the result the application for an order of interim injunction succeeds as against each of the first and second defen…

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