REPUBLIC V. ACCRA SPECIAL CIRCUIT COURT; EX PARTE AKOSAH

TAYLOR J.

This is a motion ex parte for leave to apply for an order of certiorari to bring up to this court for the purpose of being quashed a ruling in a criminal case at the Special Circuit Court, Accra, on a submission of no case, by which the applicant was called upon to enter his defence. The motion further seeks an order for an interim stay of proceedings in the circuit court in respect of the pending criminal case, the subject-matter of the motion. No argument of any sort was advanced however in regard to the request for an order of interim injunction. I suppose counsel must have reckoned that, if in view of the procedure in applications for prerogative orders, leave were granted, the necessity for giving the respondent sufficient notice to enable him to appear at the substantive hearing may make it inexpedient to continue with the hearing of the case at the circuit court pending the final hearing and determination of the certiorari proceedings. In such a situation an interim s…