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DR. AMANDA ODOI V. THE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT & THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

(2024) JELR 112245 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  WRIT NO. J1/13/2023  •  17 Jul 2024  •  Ghana

Coram
G. SACKEY TORKORNOO (MRS.) CJ (PRESIDING) M. OWUSU (MS.) JSC PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC E.Y. GAEWU JSC Y. DARKO ASARE JSC

Appearances
DR. ERNEST ARKO ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT WITH HIM, JULIA ARYEE & BENEDICT NII KRAKU. THADDEUS SORY ESQ. FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT WITH HIM, RAPHAEL BANAANGMEN & NANA BOAKYE MENSAH-BONSU. GODFRED YEBOAH DAME (ATTORNEY–GENERAL) FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT WITH HIM, YVONNE ATTAKORA OBUOBISA (DIRECTOR, PUBLIC PROSECUTION), RICHARD GYAMBIBY (PRINCIPAL STATE ATTORNEY) & GEORGE SACKEY (PRINCIPAL STATE ATTORNEY).

Judgement
<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>RULING</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong>DARKO ASARE JSC (READ BY SACKEY TORKORNOO CJ):</strong> By this application, the Plaintiff/Applicant prays for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the 1st Defendant/Respondent, the Clerk of Parliament and their respective agents, servants and assigns from forwarding the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill which was passed by Parliament on Wednesday February 28th, 2024 as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024 (“the Bill”) to the President for his assent, pending the final </p><p style="text-align: justify">This application rests on a writ which the Applicant caused to be issued against the Respondents invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court for a number of reliefs summed up at paragraph 22 of Applicant’s Statement of Case In Support of An Application For The Interlocutory Injunction filed on the 7th of March 2024. Paragraph 22 reads as follows:-</p><p style="text-align: justify"><em>22. On 1st June 2023, the Applicant caused a Writ of Summons, suit no. J1/13/2023 (“the Suit”) to be issued …</em></p>

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