JUDGMENT
Background
This is an originating motion on notice filed by the Applicant, a woman in her prime age who is alleged to have suffered severe beatings, torture and humiliation in the hands of the Respondents and their agents on allegation that she had stolen money from the shop of the 1 Respondent.
The application has invoked Article 33 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana as well as Order 67 of High Court Civil Procedure Rules 2004 (C.I. 47) for the Court to enforce the Applicant Fundamental Human Rights and Personal Liberty as against torture and humiliation she purportedly suffered and for damages against her assailants for breach of her rights.
The application is against Seven (7) Respondents named on the originating motion on notice, however the 4, 5 and 6 Respondents were not served with the application and as such the Applicant could not proceed against them since they are not aware of the pendency of the case for them to answer. Even though one lawyer Halid Abdul-Rauf initially…