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A Cape Coast High Court considering the dual nationality case of the MP for Assin North has postponed adjudication of the case until July 28.
The judgment was due to be delivered on Wednesday July 14, but the court chaired by Judge Kwasi Boakye, after hearing legal arguments from counsel for the petitioner and the second defendant, decided to postpone the reading of its judgment until July 28.
The presiding judge said he made the decision not to deliver his judgment on July 14 out of deference to the Supreme Court.
Assin North MP Joe Gyaakye Quayson has asked the Supreme Court to stop the court’s judgment because the president of the court did not allow the parties to make an oral submission to the court.
He also invoked the Supreme Court’s supervisory jurisdiction to have the court interpret certain constitutional provisions that they believe the High Court was not competent to interpret.
Assin North MP Joe Gyaakye Quayson, who has now secured the services of a new lawyer after the departure of Abraham Amaliba, has not appeared in court since the trial began.
In court Tuesday, MP’s lawyer Justin Pwavra Teriwajah said he had requested a stay of execution from the Court of Appeal and a motion to stop the Cape Coast High Court judgment in court supreme.
He urged the court to grant the petition pending the decision of the Apex court.
Her prayer was answered when the judge, out of respect for the Supreme Court, decided to choose an adjournment rather than delivery of judgment.
There have been previous legal struggles where Mr. Teriwajah served the Applicant when he filed the Application but did not copy the Applicant’s lawyer, Frank Davies. He explained that he only recognized the Applicant and not Frank Davies, as the Applicant’s lawyer should have filed a separate proceeding stating that he was the lawyer representing the Applicant.
Frank Davies, said he was shocked that such an argument could be spat out by the MP’s new lawyer after dealing with the petitioner’s case early on in the trial and conducting business relating to the case for and on behalf of the petitioner.
The judge ultimately ruled and ruled that Mr. Davies, according to the court records, was the applicant’s lawyer and that he remained the applicant’s lawyer should have been duly recognized.
Judge Kwasi Boakye postponed his judgment until July 28, a day after the Supreme Court ruled on the petition filed before it by the member for Assin North.
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