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THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT LAND DIVISION - ACCRA EX- PARTE: NII NOI MORTON AND OTHERS

(2016) JELR 68793 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL APPEAL NO. J5/21/2016  •  28 Jul 2016  •  Ghana

Coram
DOTSE JSC. (PRESIDING), YEBOAH JSC, BONNIE JSC, BAMFO (MRS) JSC, PWAMANG JSC.

Judgement

JUDGEMENT

PWAMANG, JSC.

This is an application invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of the court for an order of certiorari to issue to quash order of mandamus granted by the High Court, Accra in Suit No. LD/0214/2015 dated 18th January, 2016. The order directed the Executive Director, Lands Commission to cancel, delete and expunge from the records of the Lands Commission all registrations and plotting in the names of the applicant and four others.

The brief facts are that on 13th May, 2013, the High Court (Land Division) presided over by Justice Amos Buertey, gave judgment in favour of the 1st Interested Party and against applicant herein and others for declaration of title to a parcel of land at Danchira in the Ga South District of the Greater Accra Region. The judgment further ordered the Lands Commission, which was 6th defendant, to “cancel, delete, expunge, remove, reverse all registrations, plotting , processing of all or any portions of the land the subject matter of this suit” t…

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