RULING ON MOTION TO RECALL WITNESS
Prologue
I will start this ruling by making this statement as a prologue to my ruling. Every cross-examiner has a duty to know his case and to ask questions of the witness that will either dent the witness’ case or advance the cross-examiner’s case or both. It is not up to the witness to provide the cross-examiner with the ammunition to nail him. When the cross-examiner has completed his job and the witness has been duly discharged, unless the justice of the case so demands, it is my respectful opinion that it will not be right for the court to allow the witness to be recalled to be cross-examined on facts which were always available but which was overlooked by the cross-examiner during the first cross-examination.
Introduction and summary of parties’ submissions
This is an application mounted by counsel for the defendants for leave to recall the plaintiff and PW5, Reckon Attaa Kwao for further cross-examination. The defendants assert tha…