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THE REPUBLIC V. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE ASOGLI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL, HO, EX-PARTE: CHRISTIAN LETSU AVEVOR & 6 OTHERS AND EMMANUEL AZAMETI & 3 OTHERS

(2018) JELR 68875 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL APPEAL: NO. J4/28/2017  •  23 May 2018  •  Ghana

Coram
ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING), YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, APPAU JSC, PWAMANG JSC

Judgement

JUDGMENT

APPAU, JSC

The facts that gave rise to this appeal are quite straightforward and not in dispute whatsoever between the parties. On 29th March 2011, the interested parties/respondents herein summoned the appellants herein before the Asogli Traditional Council seeking certain declarations which fell within the jurisdiction of the Council. A judicial committee was put in place to determine the matter between the parties. On the 9th of May 2013, the judicial committee that heard the matter delivered judgment in favour of the interested parties/respondents. The appellants appealed against the decision of the judicial committee to the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Ho but their appeal was struck-out by the judicial committee of the Regional House as having been filed out of time. Appellants thereafter, filed a judicial review application before the High Court, Ho, pursuant to an extension of time granted them by the trial High Court, praying for an order of certiorari to quash the d…

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