EAST DEDEKOTOPON DEVELOPMENT TRUST
V.
LA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL & 12 ORS

JUDGMENT 

BRIGHT MENSAH, JA: 

I precede this judgment with the statement of law the Supreme Court handed down in Pobee,Tufuhene Elect of Apam v. Yoyoo [2013-2014] 1 SCGLR 208 @ 211 that runs as follows:

“……………. This appeal raises for our consideration, a point of law that is at the heart of our judicial system and the extent to which non-compliance with it, may have the effect of invalidating any decision rendered in a case where such a noncompliance did take place.  The said point of law is this:Whether a tribunal that has jurisdiction to determine a subject matter may be pursuing a course of procedure that denies a party to the cause the right to be heard, might thereby act in excess or lack of jurisdiction ……………………………………” 

         [emphasis underscored]

My Lords, we are being called upon in the instant appeal to consider whether the course of procedure the lower court adopted in dismissing the suit was appropriate and or proper.

As a matter of fact, this appeal is launched against the …