The Supreme Court has dismissed a review application filed by the embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North Constituency, James Gyakye Quayson.
The seven-panel court presided over by Justice Jones Dotse unanimously dismissed the application on grounds that the applicant did not meet the threshold for the court to exercise its discretion in his favour.
The MP was seeking a review of a restraining orders stopping him from performing his parliamentary duties after Mr. Michael Ankomah Nimfah filed an interlocutory injunction which succeeded.
The Apex Court in a 5-2 majority ruling on April 13, 2022, granted an interlocutory injunction filed by Mr. Michael Ankomah Nimfah.
His lead counsel, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata told the review panel that the bench went against a long line of precedents in granting the order to restrain Mr. Quayson from acting as a Member of Parliament.
This, Mr. Tsikata said, was notwithstanding that the Court did not also have jurisdiction in the injunction application matter.
A deputy Attorney General, Ms. Diana Asonaba Dapaah, in opposing the review application, said the applicant ‘failed abysmally’ to meet the requirements under the rules of the court.
Lawyer for Mr. Michael Ankomah-Nimfah, plaintiff in the original matter, Mr. Frank Davis, agreed with the Deputy Attorney General.
He insisted that “no case at all has been made by the applicant to necessitate a review of this court’s decision.”
The court in its decision read by His Lordship Jones Dotse, held that Mr. James Gyakye Quayson “has not met the threshold to review the decision of this court. The application fails and accordingly dismissed.”
