JOSEPH OKLEY V. DEVTRACO LTD & 1 OR. LAND COMMISSION

RULING

MARIAMA OWUSU, J.A.

At the court’s sitting on 4-2-2015, the 1^st Defendant/Appellant/Applicant moved this court to punish the Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent for willfully disobeying the orders of this court and thereby putting the administration of justice into disrepute.

The basis of the applicant’s application is that sometime 20-5-2014, this court differently constituted stayed execution of the judgment of the High Court in respect of this matter pending the final hearing and determination of the appeal filed. The Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent in spite of this court’s order stated above, has proceeded to sell the vacant plots in front of their properties to third parties who have begun to develop the land in spite of warnings and protestations from the 1^st Defendant/Appellant/Applicant. It is the case of the applicant that it reported the matter to the police who advised the respondent and his purchasers to desist from any further development on the land which advice the resp…