ADADE J.S.C.: Adade J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The applicant was convicted by the High Court, Ho on 26 April 1982 on a charge of murder, and sentenced to death. Soon afterwards, she filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal. For some reason, the appeal has, for two and a half years now, not been heard, and she has, rightly or wrongly, filed this “motion on notice to expedite the hearing of her pending appeal” asking “for an order granting a date for hearing” her appeal. In other words, she is saying that the appeal has been delayed long enough and should now be heard.
Any prisoner, and more particularly a prisoner in the circumstances of the applicant, is entitled to have her appeal heard quickly. She seems to have no means of questioning what is clearly an undue delay in disposing of her appeal. So she has resorted to this “motion.”
It would seem to us that, given the substance of the “complaint”, applications of this nature should be dealt with administratively and steps t…