EDMUND ADDO V. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

JUDGMENT

By an originating application on notice filed on 13 – 6 – 2016, Edmund Addo of Accra seeks the enforcement of his fundamental human rights and freedoms in the nature of the rights to privacy, property, fair trial and education.

The Applicant couches the prayers he seeks in the following form:

“a. Adjudge and declare that the Applicant’s rights to privacy, property, fair trial and education have been, are being or are likely to be violated by the Respondent;

b. Make an order:

i. Restraining the Respondents from further interfering with or violating the above-mentioned rights of the Applicant; and,

ii. For the immediate return of the said laptop and mobile phone to the Applicant or in the alternative for the deposit of the same with the trial court; and

c. Provide any other remedies that the Honourable Court deems fit.”

Accordingly, this application seeks to resolve the issue as to whether, after having seized the mobile phone and laptop of a criminal suspect in the course of or follow…