Mr Muda Adelawal, lawyer for embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, had an unforgettable experience at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.
The Apex Court slapped him with a cost of GH¢5,000 with a further order for him to pay within two weeks.
The court also heavily rebuked him for repackaging an application which was dismissed by the court in October 2019, and presenting it before the court again. The said application had to do with Woyome’s plea for the court to suspend the selling of his assets to defray the GH¢46 million which he owed the state.
In return for the court granting his application, Woyome promised to pay the debt in instalments. In October 2019, a five-member panel of the court, unanimously refused Woyome’s application which was argued by Lawyer Adelawal.
At that time, Lawyer Adelawal argued that his client was willing to immediately pay GH¢10 million and pay GH¢4 million every 90 days. The court dismissed the application and held that Woyome had, in the past, made such promises to pay the money in instalments but failed to fulfil them.
Woyome, however, filed another application on the same issue, with this time around, promising to pay GH¢10 million immediately and further pay the rest within 12 months.
In his submission before the Supreme Court Tuesday to prove his client’s case, Lawyer Adelawal was chided and heavily criticised by most of the five members on the panel.
The panel was presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Anin Yeboah, with Justices Julius Ansah, Jones Dotse, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie and Sule Gbadegbe as its members.
