An application from Wesley Girls’ Senior High School (SHS) urging the Supreme Court to dismiss a suit from a citizen challenging the constitutionality of certain directives of the school has been dismissed.
A preliminary legal objection filed by the school contended that the Board of Governors of the School, which was labelled as a defendant in the suit did not have the capacity to sue and be sued and as such, must be dismissed.
The plaintiff argued that it is rather the Trustees of the Methodist Church that had the capacity to be sued.
But the ruling by the court on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, the seven-member panel of the apex court which had Chief Justice Baffoe-Bonnie as President upheld arguments of the Deputy Attorney-General General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai and the plaintiff’s lawyer, Abdul Aziz Gomda, holding that the Board were competent persons to be sued.
It has given the school two weeks to respond to the allegations contained in the suit and adjourned the case indefinitely.
Other members of the panel were Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang, Senyo Dzamefe, Kwaku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Richard Adjei-Frimpong, and Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei.
