{"id":5328,"date":"2024-04-30T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:33:26","slug":"high-court-dismisses-mandamus-application-compelling-president-to-receive-anti-lgbtq-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"High Court Dismisses Mandamus Application Compelling President to Receive Anti-LGBTQ Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Accra High Court has dismissed the mandamus application filed by Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, seeking to compel President Akufo-Addo to assent or otherwise the anti-LGBTQ Bill passed by Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court, presided over by Justice Ellen Mireku, ruled that although it had jurisdiction, it would exercise its discretionary powers to dismiss the application. The dismissal came after arguments from lawyers for the Attorney-General, represented by Chief State Attorney Sylvia Adeso, who contended that the High Court had no jurisdiction to grant the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-23560bdcad0004d4fee99c1f88e82b86 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSuhmw7pp4M?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Mireku noted that two suits filed by private citizens Prof Amanda Odoi and Richard Dela Sky had direct implications on the mandamus application. Consequently, she declined the reliefs being sought by the South Dayi member of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra High Court has dismissed the mandamus application filed by Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, seeking to compel President Akufo-Addo to assent or otherwise the anti-LGBTQ Bill passed by Parliament. The court, presided over by Justice Ellen Mireku, ruled that although it had jurisdiction, it would exercise its discretionary powers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[861,1836],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-anti-lgbtq-bill","tag-high-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}