In the most recent development concerning the ongoing criminal prosecution of Assin North Member of Parliament (MP) James Gyakye Quayson, his legal team has submitted an application to the Supreme Court requesting to stop the High Court hearing until the Appeal Court has reached a verdict on the case. The application was made in an effort to prevent the High Court trial from continuing until after the Appeal Court had rendered its decision.
Because of this, the High Court has decided to postpone the trial until the following Tuesday, July 18, in order to provide the Supreme Court with sufficient time to decide whether or not to accept the application.
Since the beginning of the case, everyone in the legal community and the general public has been fixated on Quayson, who is the defendant in a criminal case and is accused of doing things that call into question his capacity to serve as an MP. A new strategy has been implemented in the ongoing legal conflict, which has recently seen a move to temporarily halt the proceedings.
In the application that was submitted by the legal team representing Quayson, they claim that it is of the utmost importance to wait for the decision of the pending appeal before moving forward with the criminal trial. The objective of Quayson's legal team in approaching the Supreme Court is to gain a stay of proceedings at the High Court so that they can concentrate on reaching a settlement at the appeal level.
The motion was granted by the justice, and as a result, the session of the criminal trial that was scheduled to take place on Monday, July 17 will now take place on Tuesday, July 18. The application will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which will thereafter render a decision about the case during this interim period. This halt in the proceedings guarantees that sufficient time is given to each party to present their side of the argument and that justice is carried out.
"Lawyers for Gyakye Quayson indicated that because disclosures were not fully made in accordance with the Republic vrs Baffoe Bonney case, there is a need to stay proceedings and so this argument was forcefully made and the judge adjourned to the 18th for a determination as to whether or not he will stay proceedings or to go ahead with the trial," one of his lawyers, Abraham Amaliba, said to the media on Friday, July 14th.
"On Wednesday, Gyakye Quayson's lawyers filed an application for a stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal. They followed with another application for certiorari [a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a case tried in a lower court] at the Supreme Court. And so today was the day that the court allowed the two lawyers from both sides to address on the implications of those two applications.
"It turned out that from the side of the NDC, Gyakye Quayson's lawyers, we were putting out the argument that we could not proceed with the trial once these applications are pending before higher courts than the High Court, particularly the application for certiorari which is before the Supreme Court. " "It turned out that from the side of the NDC, Gyakye Quayson's lawyers."
"In that application, we are seeking some relief, which are; because the Attorney-General failed to fully make disclosures to the lawyers of Gyakye Quasyon, there was a need for the Supreme Court to determine that matter because the disclosures were not entirely made." "Because the Attorney-General failed to fully make disclosures to the lawyers of Gyakye Quasyon, there was a need for the Supreme Court to
"The rules state that you are required to disclose everything in their entirety; however, in this instance, the AG did some partial disclosures."
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