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AMPONG
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AMANKWA AND OTHERS

(1961) JELR 82538 (HC)

High Court 29 Nov 1961 Ghana
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- Applicants sought certiorari to quash a decision of the Amenfi State Council awarding damages and imposing sanctions in a matter concerning an allegedly defamatory letter challenging respondent’s royal status. - The key legal issue was wh

Case Details

Judges:CHARLES J.
Counsel:E. B. Gaisie for the defendants-applicants. S. Baidoo for the respondents.
Location:Sekondi
Other Citations:[1961] 2 GLR 736 - 743

RULING

CHARLES J.

This is an application for an order of certiorari to quash the proceedings and judgment in the above-mentioned matter determined by the Amenfi State Council (hereinafter referred to as "the State Council"). On the 17th October, 1961 I heard a motion ex parte and granted leave to apply for an order of certiorari to quash the proceedings and judgment in the above-mentioned matter. I also ordered that copies of the motion and all documents filed therewith be served on the State Council and Elder Kofi Ampong the respondents herein, in consequence of which the respondents filed affidavits in opposition to the application. Leave was also granted to the applicant to amend the grounds for the application by adding paragraphs 4 and 5, as well as to file a further affidavit in reply to the affidavits filed by the respondents.

The grounds canvassed in support of this application are as follows:—

“1. that the subject-matter of the claim in the said suit was not a matter of a consti…

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