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REPUBLIC
V.
THE TRUSTEES OF GPRTU OF TUC & ANOR

(2024) JELR 114439 (SC)

Supreme Court 25 Jul 2024 Ghana
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- The Applicant/Appellant filed contempt proceedings against the Respondents, alleging wilful disregard of a motion for interlocutory injunction restraining branch elections of the GPRTU, with service purportedly effected on the Volta Regio

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT No. H2/ 06/2024
Judges:JANAPARE BARTELS-KODWO, JA HAFISATA AMALEBOBA, JA CHRISTOPHER ARCHER, JA
Counsel:GORDON AKPADIE FOR APPELLANT MUDA LAWAL FOR RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

BARTELS-KODWO JA: On the 2 of March 2023, the High Court 2, Ho dismissed the application of the Applicant/Appellant herein in respect of a Contempt proceeding. The Contempt proceeding was a fall out from the substantive Writ of Summons and a motion for interlocutory injunction issued by Applicant/Appellant herein against 1 Respondent/Respondent herein. This Appeal is against the dismissal of the Contempt application. 

BRIEF FACTS

The facts garnered from the Record of Appeal (ROA) resulting in the instant appeal are briefly that Applicant/Appellant had filed a Writ of Summons and a Statement of Claim together with a motion on notice to restrain the 1 Respondent/Respondent from conducting any branch elections in the Volta Region including that for the GPRTU Ho-Branch 2 of its officers.

Service of both the Writ of Summons and the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction to restrain the officers of the 1 Respondent from carrying out the elections was effected on the 1 Respondent…

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