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REPUBLIC
V.
ISMAIL BAWAH EXPARTE LYDIA AKOSUA

(2018) JELR 107863 (HC)

High Court 27 Nov 2018 Ghana
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- The Applicant filed an application for contempt of court against the Respondent for continuing development work on disputed land in violation of a court order. - The Applicant had previously filed a motion for an interlocutory injunction

Case Details

Suit Number:CR/908/2017
Judges:GEORGE K. KOOMSON
Counsel:CHARLES KUSI FOR APPLICANT FAROUK SEIDU FOR RESPONDENT

J U D G M E N T 

In this application the Applicant pray this Court for an order committing the Respondent  herein for contempt of Court in that the Respondent has in complete disregard and utter  contempt of the order restraining him, his heirs and assigns, agents, and workers from any  development work on the land until the substantive suit is determined, continued the  development of the land in dispute. 

Briefly, the material facts which gave rise to the present application are that the Applicant’s  principal issued a Writ of Summons in suit No. LD/0316/2016 titled LYDIA AKOSUA  ADWOO ANIM v. ISMAIL BAWA and ANOR, on the 18th January, 2016, asking for the  following reliefs:  

1. A declaration that by a conveyance dated 8th March, 1986 made between the  Plaintiff and Nii Nortey Adjeifio now deceased acting for the Kle Musum Family,  the family’s interest in the land described therein was conveyed to the Plaintiff. 

2. A declaration that any registration of the said land by the 2nd Def…

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