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BENJAMIN YAW OSEI
V.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUDICIAL COUNCIL AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

(2019) JELR 69496 (CA)

Court of Appeal 28 Feb 2019 Ghana
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- The case is an appeal against a High Court ruling delivered on 26th April 2018, which overruled the Appellant's objection to the admission of Exhibit 4 into evidence. - The Appellant filed eleven grounds of appeal, with the main contentio

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO: H1/221/2018
Judges:P. K. GYAESAYOR J.A (PRESIDING), AVRIL LOVELACE-JOHNSON J.A, TANKO AMADU J.A
Counsel:JOE ABOAGYE DEBRAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

JUDGMENT

AVRIL LOVELACE JOHNSON, JA

This is an appeal against the ruling of the High Court delivered on 26th April 2018. By the said ruling, the Court overruled the objection of counsel for the Appellant’s objection to the admission into evidence of the Exhibit 4 of the Respondents and admitted it into evidence.

Eleven grounds of appeal were filed with the eleventh one (k) being that the ruling in question is against the weight of evidence. These grounds are

a) The learned High Court judge erred at the case management level when he declared as admissible evidence the purported official report (marked as exhibit 4) attached to witness statement of Samuel Boakye Yiadom, witness for the Defendants dated December 11, 2017 despite the written preliminary objections of the Plaintiff/Appellant filed on February 5, 2018 against the admissibility of the evidence.

b) The learned High Court judge erred when he failed to consider the Plaintiff/Appellant’s written preliminary objection filed on 5/2/18 …

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