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DANIEL ROCKSON V. GHANA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

(2010) JELR 68504 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  WRIT. J1/9/2009  •  24 Feb 2010  •  Ghana

Coram
AKUFFO (MS) JSC, ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC, OWUSU (MS) JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, ARYEETEY JSC

Judgement

RULING

ADINYIRA (MRS), JSC

The plaintiff a citizen of Ghana and a supporter of Tema Youth Football Club is claiming against the Ghana Football Association (GFA) per his writ dated 1 September 2010, the following reliefs:

(a) “A declaration that article 17.1.11.1- 6 of the statutes of the Ghana Football Association seeking to oust members and their supporters from resorting to the law courts to ventilate their grievances as of right and further purporting to coerce football clubs from associating themselves with such actions to save themselves from expulsion, in so far as they constitute acts of the Ghana Football Association, is inconsistent with and or are in contravention with the letter and spirit of chapter five of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and are thereby void an d have always been null and void for all purposes.
(b) An order restraining the Ghana Football Association, it’s agents and members from requesting any member to file or publish a disclaimer in respec…

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