MP for Assin North goes to Supreme Court again over ‘bias’ Court of Appeal
“…the Court held up proceedings and waited until the Registrar came into court, whereupon the Presiding Judge then proceeded to give directions as to the “corrections” to be effected by her handwriting,”
The Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, has filed a new application at the Supreme Court against the judgement of the Cape Coast Court of Appeal.
This comes after the Court of Appeal threw out his suit challenging a ruling by the Cape Coast High Court for fresh elections to be held in the constituency.
The High Court in July 2021, annulled the Assin North Parliamentary elections when it ruled that Mr Quayson owed allegiance to another country other than Ghana at the time of filing his nomination forms to contest the polls.
The MP dissatisfied with the ruling filed a case for it to be set aside at the Court of Appeal. But in court on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Irene Charity Larbi in delivering her judgement ordered that all applications relating to the appeal case before the court concerning the Assin North MP have to be struck out.
But the embattled MP believes the Court of Appeal acted arbitrarily in handing down the ruling.
According to a report on myjoyonline, lawyers of the MP are praying the apex court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal to strike out his appeal against a High Court decision for non-compliance with court procedures.
The lawyers also add that all attempts to draw the court’s attention to a pending motion seeking to disqualify the Presiding Judge, Irene Charity Larbi, from participating in the case, fell on deaf ears as the judge did not allow lead counsel, Tsatsu Tsikata, to explain why he believed the case should be put on hold.
The MP in his suit also averred that a defective registrar summon was used to call the case in court and questioned why the presiding judge contrary to the rules of the court corrected the defects in her own handwriting.
“…the Court held up proceedings and waited until the Registrar came into court, whereupon the Presiding Judge then proceeded to give directions as to the “corrections” to be effected by her handwriting,” parts of the court documents available to myjoyonline read.
They are thus praying the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the Court of Appeal and restore all processes relating to the appeal.
Source: thenewsroomonline.com
