The Supreme Court has handed #FixTheCountry activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a fee of GHc10,000 because it brushed off a case he represented on.
Obviously disenchanted with the requirements of procedures filed, in addition to the fine of Mr. Baker-Vormavor's Legal illustration in courtroom docket on Tuesday, the courtroom docket stated the utility became “frivolous”, “vexatious” and the courtroom docket found “no advantage in it”.
The vociferous activist became a attorney at the file for a collection calling itself Democratic Accountability Lab in a depend earlier than the courtroom docket.
The institution became in search of to dedicate the Commissioner-General, Ghana Revenue Authority, and the Ghana Revenue Authority itself, to contempt for the May 1, 2022 implementation of the debatable e-levy, at the same time as there has been an injunction utility pending in appreciate of the implementation.
The institution informed the courtroom docket that the movement had the impact of revealing the courtroom docket to ridicule.
Sooner had Oliver Barker-Vormawor introduced himself than a barrage of questions engulfed him, starting from popular practises, via system to great regulation, consisting of precedent (determined cases).
President of the 7-member Court, Nene Amegatcher quizzed him at the propriety of the name of the case added earlier than the courtroom docket.
He additionally requested why the rate became now no longer directed at any particular reliable of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), noting that companies can't be mentioned for contempt.
The women and Lords of the Court once more demanded from him the criminal foundation upon which he sought to seem earlier than them, and to dedicate the general public reliable and institution “to prison”.
As His Lordship, Emmanuel Yoni Kulendi thundered calmly, “we're a courtroom docket of regulation, now no longer an NGO. What we need is your criminal authority, now no longer your opinion and speeches”.
For Her Ladyship, Prof. Mensah-Bonsu, Mr. Barker-Vomarvor came “as an officious bystander”.
“You can't be an intruder who weeps louder than the bereaved. So we need to pay attention you at the regulation and the authorities”, Her Ladyship hammered.
Reeling below the burden and warmth of the blast, the outspoken activist sought shelter below a 1976 High Court choice in Okine v. Mawu & Another.
This case, in line with attorney Barker-Vormawor, is foundation that a contempt utility can be added via way of means of even a stranger.
Just as woman Lovelace Johnson driven for the statistics of this authority and the precise keeping of the Court, lord Professor Ashie Kotei became asking why a 1976 High Court choice became getting used to argue a case in 2022 on the Supreme Court.
Not moved via way of means of the submissions of the Democratic Accountability Lab's attorney, the Court stated it did “now no longer assume we must name on suggest for the second one respondent to respond, the applicant in our view has no locus on this depend”.
“The utility itself,” the Court stated, “is faulty and does now no longer degree as much as the exercise of instituting origination note of motions on this courtroom docket.”
Here is the whole supplement of the Court, Nene Amegatcher as President, Prof Ashie Kotey, Mariama Owusu, Lovelace Johnson, Gertrude Torkonoo, Prof Henrietta Mensah Bonsu and Emmanuel Yoni Kulendi.
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