Of Lower Courts & Superior Courts: Guarding the Administration of Justice Against Contempt. A Befitting Burial to Republic v District Court Grade I, Dunkwa-On-Offin; Ex Parte Owusu

Oswald K. Azumah[*] ABSTRACT “An inferior court which attempts to punish a contempt committed out of court is clearly a usurper trying to clothe itself with a jurisdiction its very nature or origin denies it; or is assuming an authority its very constitution bereft it of”—so says Kpegah J (as he then was) in Republic … Continue reading Of Lower Courts & Superior Courts: Guarding the Administration of Justice Against Contempt. A Befitting Burial to Republic v District Court Grade I, Dunkwa-On-Offin; Ex Parte Owusu