What amazes some learned Lawyers is the emergence of questionable letters of appointments with no date during the trial, the admission of bias and
breach of natural justice by Chairman of the party's Disciplinary committee Most Reverend Asante - Antwi and the admission of same in yesterday's ruling by the learned justice among others lends credence to the fact that, Justice Anthony Yeboah feared to uphold Justice.
Not exact matches
He has described his suspension
by the National Disciplinary Committee (NDC)
of the party as procedurally irregular and
breaching the rules
of natural justice and wants the Human Rights Division
of the court to revoke that decision.
The Minister, according to the court,
breached the rule
of natural justice by not giving Exton Cubic, a company owned
by Ibrahim Mahama, the brother
of former President John Mahama, a fair hearing, adding that the licence was properly acquired.
«It is respectfully submitted therefore My Lord, that on the basis
of the grounds argued above,
of Lack
of, or Excess
of Jurisdiction, Procedural Irregularity and
breach of the rules
of natural justice it is submitted that the decision
of the National Disciplinary Committee dated 2nd December, 2015 and endorsed
by the National Executive Committee on 10th December 2015 be brought up to this court for purposes
of having same quashed.»
The taxpayer then sought to set the demand aside and challenged the assessments
by judicial review on the grounds
of conscious maladministration, abuse
of power and
breach of natural justice.
(A successful appeal
by Marc Beaumont for a Barrister against 5 findings
of professional misconduct; signing a statement
of truth and serving a pleading are not «the conduct
of litigation;» meaning
of, «discreditable to a Barrister;» trial panel gave no oral or written reasons for decision, nor did it allow any closing speech
by the defence; gross
breaches of natural justice; Chair
of trial panel only honorary QC; not authorised to sit)
The court began
by referring to a previous Ontario court decision, which states that a
breach of the obligation to treat the parties fairly and equally constitutes a
breach of natural justice, and that the court has the authority to intervene where a decision amounts to a denial
of natural justice.
Date — Bah JSC in this case stated that: «what is intended to be covered
by Order 81 are irregularities, short
of situations
of want
of jurisdiction or infringements
of statutes other than the High Court Rules... thus, whilst Order 81 rule 1 treats non compliance with the Rules as not nullifying the non - complying proceedings, the rule DOES NOT apply to non — compliance which is so fundamental as to go to Jurisdiction, or which is in
breach of a Statute other than the civil procedure rules;
breach of the Constitution; or the
breach of the rules
of natural justice.»