JUDGEMENT
AZU CRABBE C.J.
The plaintiff is a national of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the defendant is a Ghanaian who has been living in Germany for the past twenty years. Some time in 1968 the plaintiff met the defendant, then a medical student, in Tubingen in the Federal Republic of Germany, and they formed an association out of which a child was born to them on 7 September 1970. On 18 November 1970, the plaintiff registered the birth of the child at the Office of Vital Statistics, Tubingen, and in the certificate of birth the name of the child appears as Thomas Kwamla Braun. In the eyes of the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, Thomas Kwamla Braun is illegitimate, and, therefore, only his mother's name could appear on the certificate of birth. The child lived with the mother until 28 February 1972, when the defendant filed a petition in the German courts for the legitimation of his son. The proceedings were compromised, and it was agreed that the defendant should have a…