An appeal filed by the embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson at the Court of Appeal in Cape Coast has been struck out. This is because the appellant, James Gyakye Quayson failed to file his written submission within the stipulated period allowed under the Court of Appeal Rules, 1997 (C.I. 19).
Delivering her judgement, the Presiding Judge, Irene Charity Larbi, stated that the embattled MP failed to comply with the court’s directives to submit his written submission within a stipulated time.
The judge further ordered that all applications before the panel in relation to the Assin North MP have to be struck out. The Court of Appeal adjourned the Assin North MP’s case to March 22, 2022, after Counsel for the MP, Tsatsu Tsikata, sought clarity on why the court had decided to use C.I. 47 to deal with the application for stay of execution that was pending before the court.
Before that, the court’s registrar issued a certificate of non-compliance to Mr Gyakye Quayson and his lawyers on January 24, 2022. It was to this effect that they were issued with Form six, which is just a notice of dispatch of records to the Court of Appeal. This means that all the records at the high court that had to do with the original petition had been dispatched to the court of appeal.
The MP had within 21 days to file his written submission, but he did not comply, and on that basis, the court’s registrar had to issue a certificate of non-compliance.
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