REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT (CRIMINAL DIVISION 1), ACCRA, EX PARTE: STEPHEN KWABENA OPUNI, ATTORNEY-GENERAL (INTERESTED PARTY)

RULING

MAJORITY OPINION

PWAMANG JSC

My Lords, the applicant before us prays the court to exercise our supervisory jurisdiction  and quash by an order of Certiorari, “part of the ruling of the said High Court (Criminal  Division 1), Accra dated 7th day of May, 2021 which rejected exhibits 58, 59, 60…74 and  75 from the evidence and for an order of Prohibition to prohibit His Lordship Justice  Clemence Jackson Honyenuga (JSC) sitting as an additional High Court Judge from  continuing with Case No. CR/158/2018- Republic v. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Seidu  Agong, Agricult Ghana Limited.” As grounds for the application, the applicant pleads  grievous error of law, breach of the right to be heard and real likelihood of bias. 

The brief background to the application is this. At the criminal trial pending in the High  Court, Accra, the applicant who used to be the Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod has  been charged together with two others on various counts including abetment of  defrauding by fal…