GRi in Court News Ghana 26 - 04 - 2001
Court rules in favour of E.P. Church, Ghana
Court rules in
favour of E.P. Church, Ghana
Ho (Volta Region) 26 April 2001
A Ho High Court presided over by
Mr Justice Attah Asare-Korang, on Monday ordered the Ho-Fiave Branch of the
Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.), Church of Ghana, to return all movable
property and title deeds covering the Fiave land and chapel to the E. P.
Church, Ghana.
Justice Asare-Korang also ordered
the defendants to return all church collections before July 1991, to the
plaintiffs and awarded a 1.5 million cedis cost against the defendants.
The Plaintiffs represented by Mr
Aggrey Gikunoo and Mr Saviour Dzikunu, both Ho based Legal Practitioners,
brought the action in 1994, for the recovery of property of the church, which
was taken over by the defendants following their breakaway from the mother
church in 1991.
Mr Jones Dotse, leading Counsel
for the defendants, told the Ghana News Agency, that the defendants have filed
a notice of appeal to the court of Appeal, and also applied for a stay of
execution of judgement.
He said the judgement did not
address pertinent legal issues raised in the matter, and that the defendants
were not sued in a representative capacity as the judgement indicated.
GRi…/
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