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THE REPUBLIC
V.
HIGH COURT (GENERAL JURISDICTION 8), ACCRA EX PARTE DANIEL OFORI

(2025) JELR 113256 (SC)

Supreme Court 22 Jan 2025 Ghana
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- Following a final Supreme Court judgment in favour of the Applicant and the Supreme Court’s direction for enforcement by the High Court, the Interested Party, while seeking to impeach that judgment on grounds of fraud, applied to the High

Case Details

Suit Number:J5/85/2024
Judges:LOVELACE–JOHNSON (MS) JSC (PRESIDING) ASIEDU JSC GAEWU JSC DARKO ASARE JSC ADJEI-FRIMPONG JSC
Counsel:TSATSU TSIKATA ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT WITH THADDEUS SORY ESQ. AND NANA BOAKYE MENSA-BONSU ESQ. SEKYERE DUODU ESQ FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY WITH SAMUEL ADUAMUAH ADDO ESQ.

MAJORITY OPINION

DARKO ASARE JSC:

INTRODUCTION

My Lords, this is an application seeking to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction of this court by way of judicial review for an order of certiorari directed at the High Court, General Jurisdiction 8, to bring up into this Court for purposes of being quashed and quashing the ruling of the court dated the 2nd day of May 2024; a declaration that the High Court has no jurisdiction to entertain any application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain execution of a judgment of the Supreme Court; and an order of prohibition prohibiting the High Court (General Jurisdiction 8] from entertaining any proceedings and/or application(s) to restrain the execution proceedings commenced in the suit intituled Daniel Ofori v Ecobank Ghana Limited (Suit No. CM/MISC/0829/2021) as ordered by the Supreme Court.

GROUNDS FOR APPLICATION

The grounds for the application are set out by the Applicant as follows: -

i. The High Court has no jurisdiction to grant an order …

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