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RUTH QUARCOOPOME & ANNA O. QUARCOPOME

(2021) JELR 109690 (SC)

Supreme Court 1 Dec 2021 Ghana
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- The Supreme Court of Ghana held that statutory relief against forfeiture (sections 29 and 30 of NRCD 175 / now Land Act 2020, Act 1036) applies only to breaches within a subsisting lease, not to situations where a lease has determined by

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Suit Number:J4/66/2021
Judges:APPAU, JSC (PRESIDING) PWAMANG, JSC AMEGATCHER, JSC TORKORNOO (MRS.), JSC KULENDI, JSC
Counsel:EDWARD ANOKYE ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/ RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT. ANTHONY FORSON JNR. ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS/ APPELLANTS/APPELLANTS

AMEGATCHER JSC:- 

It is rare for a party who has had his appeal to an appellate court allowed to further  appeal against the judgment in its favour to a second appellate court. But, this is what  has happened in the current appeal before us. According to the appellants in paragraph 3 of their affidavit in support of an application for extension of time to file an appeal  and later in their statement of case, though they were satisfied with the holding and  final outcome of the appeal in the Court of Appeal, the legal reasoning behind the  decision opened another door for the respondent to pursue a third leg of that litigation  by the filing of another writ of summons and an injunction against them, thus allowing  the litigation over the property to persist. We do not think the appellants can be faulted  for this course of action. For when the legal reasoning behind a decision of court is  faulty and will not end the litigation, it is within the right of any of the parties to  challeng…

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