ASCHKAR V. KARAM

AZU CRABBE J.S.C: Azu Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. This is an application brought under rule 33 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1962 (L.I. 218), for an order for review of the Supreme Court’s decision in the above case dated 20 February 1963. Rule 33 reads as follows: [His lordship here read the rule as set out in the headnote and continued:]

This matter has had a chequered career in the courts, and for more than eight years it has deliberately been kept alive by a series of motions; until a stage is reached where legal ingenuity itself becomes exhausted.

The background of this application is as follows: On 24 May 1961, the late Adumua-Bossman J. (as he then was) gave judgment against the applicant in the High Court, Accra, in an action instituted by the respondent in this application. The applicant appealed to the former Supreme Court on a number of grounds, and the respondent also cross-appealed. On the date fixed for the hearing of the appeal, neither the applicant no…