BY COURT: RULING
A) BACKGROUND
(1) This motion was filed on 21/03/2018 and the respondents are:
ISAAC B. SACKEY
SAMUEL B. ALAVANYO and
EMMANUEL BORKETEY
The applicant – ‘Kelli – Cross Kuagbenu Sachiel’ in an affidavit in support described himself as C.E.O. of the applicant/company. The complaints or grievances that provoked this action are about, acts and conducts carried out in contravention of a Court order. There is also a supplementary affidavit in support, with annexure.
(2) On the other hand, the three respondents filed two affidavits, each in opposition. There are exhibits annexed.
B) THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF CONTEMPT
Contempt of Court has been differently defined by many authors and jurists and it appears the peculiar facts of each case explains what in law will constitute contempt.
In Osborn’s concise law Dictionary (by John Burke) it is defined as:
“Failure to comply with an order of a superior court,… or an act of resistance or insult to the cou…