IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC V. MRS. VIVIAN AKU BROWN AND 9 OTHERS EX PARTE ODWUMA LAKES FARMS AND RURAL ESTATES AND ANOTHER

F.G. KORBIEH, J.A.

On the 10/5/2017, the applicants herein filed an application praying this Court to commit the respondents to prison terms for contempt of court citing various breaches of orders of the Court the respondents had committed. The application could not be moved on the return date for reasons of non-service on the respondents and the case continued to be adjourned until the 20/11/2017 when the 1^st, 2^nd and 4^th respondents filed a notice of their intention to raise a preliminary legal objection to the application altogether. They intimated that the jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the application to commit them for contempt of court had not been properly invoked. On the 16/1/2018, this Court heard the argument for and against the notice filed by the 1^st, 2^nd and 4^th respondents. Their lawyer, Alfred Agyei-Mensah, Esq., argued as follows: the applicants have failed to invoke the jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the application to commit the 1^st, 2^nd and 4^th respo…