Supreme Court bailiffs on Friday, February 21, 2025, served a certiorari application on the Member of Parliament for Tema Central, Charles Forson, via substituted service.
The NDC filed an earlier application to quash the High Court decision which ordered the EC to collate and declare parliamentary results of Techiman South, Okaikwei Central, Tema Central and Ablekuma North constituencies.
The notice of substituted service, which was posted on the residence of Mr. Forson, was necessitated after several failed efforts to effect personal service on him.
The legal team of the NDC Parliamentary candidate, led by Seth Nyaaba, disclosed to the court on Thursday, February 6, 2025, that efforts to serve the court documents on the NPP candidate had been unsuccessful and would require substituted service to serve the documents.
Counsel argued that “more than three unsuccessful attempts have been made to effect personal service of the certiorari application.
“Any further attempt to serve the 2nd to 5th Interested Parties with another hearing notice for the hearing of the Certiorari application may be practically impossible due to the experiences gathered from the service of the hearing notice for the 23rd January 2025 hearing,” he explained.
The apex court, on Friday, granted the application.
Per the Supreme courts direction, the service should be done by posting copies of the certiorari application, the supplementary affidavit in support of the certiorari application and the hearing notice on the notice board of the Supreme Court, the residences of the defendants, the legal department of the Office of Parliament and via WhatsApp.
