THE REPUBLIC V. THE HIGH COURT, (GENERAL JURISDICTION 10) EX PARTE : KWABENA ADU BOAHENE & ANGELA ADJEI BOATENG

RULING

ADJEI, JSC:

The Court, on 29th October, 2025, dismissed the application for prohibition as unmeritorious and adjourned it to 5th November, 2025, for a reasoned ruling to be filed. The Applicant filed an application for prohibition to pray this Court to prohibit the Judge sitting in the High Court, General Jurisdiction “10”, Accra, from proceeding to hear the criminal suit intituled Suit No. CR/0418/2025; The Republic v Kwabena Adu-Boahene, Angela Adjei Boateng, Mildred Donkor and Advantage Solutions Ltd on grounds of bias and real likelihood of bias from four fronds. The grounds for the application were provided as follows:

“(i) His Lordship is caught in a continuing operative bias demonstrated in his prejudgment and/or predetermination of the critical issues of the essence and import of exculpatory evidence in aid of fair trial as spelt out in Article 19 of the Constitution and judicially pronounced upon in the Supreme Court case of Republic v Baffoe-Bonnie & 4 Others [2017-2021]…