BULLEY-NEEQUAYE V. BULLEY-NEEQUAYE

BROBBEY J.

On 26 October 1978 the defendant, Mrs. Alicia Bulley-Neequaye, obtained an adoption order from the High Court presided over by the late Griffiths-Randolph J. The precise wording of the order which was exhibited in the course of arguments of this application was this:

“Upon the reading of an application made by Alicia Edith Bulley-Neequaye, it is hereby ordered under and by virtue of the Adoption Act, 1962 (Act 104) and the relevant legislation made thereunder that the child Christiana Okailey Amina, a juvenile, be adopted by the said Alicia Edith Bulley-Neequaye as her lawful child for all purposes whatsoever, legal and equitable, and that the child be known as Christiana Okailey Amina Bulley-Neequaye according to the desire of the applicant herein expressed in the application, the mother of the child having consented to the adoption.”

Barely two years later, the plaintiff herein, Mr. Eric Bulley-Neequaye, issued a writ applying for the adoption order to be set aside on groun…