REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT, ACCRA, EX PARTE: UNIVERSAL MERCHANT BANK; MORGAN INT. SCHOOL & DANQUAH (INTERESTED PARTY)

 RULING

KULENDI JSC:

INTRODUCTION: 

1. This is an application invoking the Supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 132 of the 1992 Constitution and Rule 61 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (C.I. 16). The Applicant is specifically praying for an order of certiorari to remove into this Court for the purpose of quashing an interlocutory judgment entered by the High Court (Commercial Division 9) Accra, dated 14th December 2023 on grounds of the lack of jurisdiction and a fundamental errors of law. 

2. The origins of the dispute, as may be inferred from Applicant’s affidavit in support and the various exhibits attached thereto, lies in a credit transaction between the Applicant as the Plaintiff in the High Court and the 1st Interested Party as the 1st Defendant at the High Court.  The Applicant initiated the action by Writ of Summons against the Interested Parties on 23rd December 2022, seeking a recovery of an outstanding debt of Six Million Four Hundred and Forty-Six Thousand F…