The Supreme Court is hearing the suit against the High Court’s ruling on the disputed constituency results filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Heavy security was present at the Supreme Court on December 27 ahead of the hearing field over  re-collation of election results.

What we know:

The Supreme Court has refused a preliminary legal objection against the certiorari application by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which is seeking to quash a ruling by the High Court for the re-collation of the parliamentary results in six constituencies.

Lawyer the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidates for the six constituencies, Gary Nimako Marfo on Friday morning [Dec 27] raised a preliminary legal objection on the basis that the NDC failed to attach the ruling of the High Court when it filed the the certiorari application before the court.

Such a failure, Mr Nimako argued, was in non-compliance with the rules of court , and therefore urged the court to throw out the application.

The five -member panel of the court , however, held that the said judgment of the high court, although was not initially filed by the NDC, was subsequently filed as a supplementary affidavit.

The five -member panel is presided over by Justice Gabriel Pwamang, with Justices Henrietta Mensa – Bonsu, Eric Geawu, Henry Kwofie and Richard Adjei-Frimpong as members 

Ruling 

Meanwhile , the court has retired into chambers to come out with its ruling.

This was after the court heard the submissions of lawyer for the NDC, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, lawyer for the EC, Justine Amenuvor and lawyer for the NPP parliamentary candidates,  Gary Nimako Marfo,

Updated a while ago.