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THE REPUBLIC
V.
OPANYIN KOFI ESSIEDU & ANOR EX PARTE: EBUSUAPANYIN KWESI PRAH AND 2ORS

(2025) JELR 114627 (HC)

High Court 14 Jun 2025 Ghana
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- Applicants sought an interlocutory injunction to restrain Respondents from organizing a funeral event in the Applicants’ family house, alleging Respondents’ prior notice of the legal action and pending motion. - Despite being served with

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Suit Number:CR/SD/HC/E13/CA/06/2025
Judges:FELIX DATSOMOR, J
Counsel:NICHOLAS EGYIN BUADU, ESQUIRE APPEARS FOR APPLICANTS ALEXANDER K. K. ABBAN, ESQUIRE APPEARS FOR RESPONDENTS
Location:AGONA SWEDRU

RULING

On 28th January 2025, the Applicants herein instituted an action against the Respondents and one another named Opanyin Kwame Nyarko seeking a myriad of reliefs against them including an order restraining them from organizing funerals and other events in Applicants’ family house including the one week funeral celebration of one James Edward Arthur (deceased).

Just a day thereafter, i.e. on 29th January 2025, the Applicants as Plaintiffs in the suit filed a motion on notice for interlocutory injunction seeking to restrain the Respondents together with Opanyin Kwame Nyarko as Defendants to the action, their agents, assigns, etc. from holding, organizing or doing anything in respect of the 40 days observation of the death of Mr James Edward Arthur in the family house of the Royal Asona Ebusuatsir of Agona Abodom on Friday 31st January 2025.

The said application for interlocutory injunction was provoked by the fact that the Respondents had printed posters and notices announcing the sai…

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