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THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT, WA EXPARTE OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOR DKM DIAMOND MICROFINANCE LTD. & ORS.

(2020) JELR 92041 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/52/2020  •  25 Nov 2020  •  Ghana

Coram
DOTSE, JSC (PRESIDING) , MARFUL-SAU, JSC , AMEGATCHER, JSC , LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS), JSC , PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS), JSC

Appearances
GEORGE KOFI BEKAI FOR THE APPLICANT. ISAAC BORRIDO FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES/RESPONDENTS.

Judgement

RULING

MARFUL-SAU, JSC

The applicant herein who is the Official Liquidator of DKM Diamond Microfinance Ltd prayed this Court for an order of certiorari directed at the High Court, Wa presided over by His Lordship Justice Kwasi Boakye, to quash the ruling of that court dated the 7th of July 2020 in suit number UW/WA/HC/E2/23/2020. In that suit the interested parties herein had applied for leave to issue a writ of summons against the applicant herein. The High Court granted the application for the interested parties to issue a writ of summons against the applicant. It is the order granting leave to the interested parties to issue the writ of summons that has become the subject of this application. On the 25th November, 2020, this Court by a unanimous decision dismissed the application for certiorari by the Official Liquidator and reserved its reasons which we hereby deliver.

The brief facts of the case are that on the 1st of March 2016 the Bank of Ghana, revoked the licence of DKM Diamond …

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