JUDGMENT
BARTELS-KODWO JSC:-
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Fraud unravels everything. The maxim is old, and the courts have repeated it often, because it states a truth the law cannot do without. A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is among the weightiest acts our legal order knows: it binds the parties, commands obedience, and brings their dispute to an end, and the law has good reasons for wanting disputes to end. But a judgment is only as good as the process that produced it. Where that process has been corrupted by deceit, the judgment that emerges is not entitled to the respect the law ordinarily pays it. A litigant who wins by hiding what he was bound to reveal, or by asserting what he knew to be false, has not really won at all. He has obtained a piece of paper that wears the appearance of a judgment. The law has always reserved to itself the power to look behind that appearance.
2. This appeal is about who may exercise that power, and when. The Appellant obtained judgment against…