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REPUBLIC
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WESTERN NZIMA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL; EX PARTE MFRAMA AND OTHERS

(1983) JELR 69918 (HC)

High Court 7 Feb 1983 Ghana
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- This case involves an application for an order prohibiting the respondents from hearing and determining a chieftaincy dispute. - The applicants allege bias on the part of the Western Nzima Traditional Council and its officials. - The regi

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Judges:ANSAH-TWUM J.
Counsel:GEORGE THOMPSON FOR QUANSAH FOR THE APPLICANTS; R. E. GAISIE FOR THE RESPONDENTS.
Other Citations:[1982-83] GLR 1102

ANSAH-TWUM J.

This is an application for an order prohibiting the respondents from hearing and determining the suit entitled:

(1) Asamoah Ebbah

(2) John Mokye v. Aduku Mframra and Others Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the applicants’ affidavit in support read as follows:

“4. That the case travelled on successive appeals to the full bench of the Court of Appeal under the title aforementioned in paragraph 1 of this affidavit.”

“5. that the full bench of the Court of Appeal delivered its judgment as follows:

‘I am of the opinion that this is a proper case to remit to the appropriate tribunal to be heard de novo. In the result I shall allow the appeal and send the case back to the Western Nzima Traditional Council or its successor to be heard de novo’.”

The applicants who appear to have brought this application mainly against the first respondents, the Western Nzima Traditional Council, have stated as follows in paragraph 9 of the affidavit in support:

“9. That it has become clear to the applicants that …

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