RULING
DR. DATE-BAH JSC
This case can easily be disposed of since the main issue in it has recently been authoritatively determined by a binding precedent of this Court. That binding precedent is the decision of this Court in Republic v. High Court (Commercial Division); ex parte Attorney-General (Maud Nongo, Interested Party) (Suit No. J5/24/2012, unreported, delivered on 24th January 2013).
The facts of this present case are as follows: In April 2003, a High Court gave judgment in favour of the Interested Parties in this case. Under the judgment, the State was to prepare a comprehensive account on the use to which it had put the Interested Parties’ factory premises and the transactions carried out there. The State failed to do so. Accordingly, on 16th May 2012, Her Ladyship Ankumah J ruled that the Interested Parties recover $28,595,600 or its cedi equivalent against the State. This sum was monetary compensation to the Interested Parties for being denied the use and run…