REPUBLIC
V.
KUMOJI & 2 ORS, EX PARTE: DAVID KUMOJI

(2025) JELR 114193 (HC)

High Court 18 Feb 2025 Ghana
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- Applicant sought committal of Respondents for contempt, alleging they took disruptive acts (eviction of tenant, demolition, and construction on disputed land) while aware that an interlocutory injunction application restraining such condu

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Suit Number:CR/0078/2025
Judges:COMFORT KWASIWOR TASIAME, J
Counsel:SARAH KUSI FOR THE APPLICANT. ISAAC ABURAM LARTEY WITH MONALISA ASARE AND JOANA BINEY HOLDING BRIEF FOR ERIC MENSAH FOR 2ND AND 3RD RESPONDENTS.
Location:Accra

RULING

Applicant Filed the Motion on Notice for Committal of the Respondents for Contempt of court.

Attached to the motion paper is the affidavit in support. Permit me to quote the relevant parts of the affidavit in support of the application.  

1. That I commenced an Action against the 1st to the 29th Defendants/Respondents for reliefs as endorsed on the Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim and on the 15th day of January, 2024, the 30th and 31st Defendants caused their lawyers to file a motion for Joinder to be joined to the suit and the Joinder Application was granted by the Honorable Court. Attached for the perusal of the Court is “Exhibit A” which is a copy of the Joinder filed by the 2nd and 3rd Respondents.

2. That on the 21st day of August, 2024, I filed a further Amended Statement of Claim Pursuant to the Order of the Court dated 14th August, 2024 for the following reliefs, with a copy of the Amended Statement of Claim attached as “Exhibit B”:

a.  A Declaration that the plaintiff…

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