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THE REPUBLIC V. AUTOMATED FAST TRACK HIGH COURT EX-PARTE: STATE HOUSING COMPANY LTD (INTERESTED PARTY; MRS. DINAH KORANTEN AMOAKO)

(2009) JELR 92111 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/30/2008  •  26 Feb 2009  •  Ghana

Coram
WOOD, C.J (PRESIDING) BROBBEY, JSC DOTSE, JSC ANIN YEBOAH, JSC BAFFOE-BONNIE, JSC

Appearances
FRANK DAVIES WITH NII AYITEY OKAI FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY JOHN AIDOO FOR THE APPLICANT

Judgement

RULING

WOOD, (MRS) CJ

In this motion to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction of this honourable court, the applicant prays for an order of certiorari directed at the Automated/Fast Track High Court (No 4), presided over by Her Ladyship, Mrs. Irismay Brown. The purpose is to bring up to this court and to have quashed the judgment of that court dated 20th March, 2008, granting GHC100, 000.00 to the Plaintiff (Interested Party herein) without notice to the Defendant. 

The facts which triggered the present application are not complex. On the 25th day of October 2007, the learned trial judge sitting in the Fast Track High Court 4 delivered herself in the case of Dinah Koranten Amoako v. State Housing Company Ltd as follows:

“The verdict of the court is that the dismissal of Plaintiff was motivated by factors other than the alleged misconduct of the Plaintiff and therefore wrongful. The behaviour of management gives credence to the allegation by Plaintiff that she had been harassed, persecuted a…

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