See how the
Supreme Court kept shifting the goal post in today’s hearing:
The court gave
two reasons dismissing the application for interrogatories:
1. That CI 99
makes Order 22 of CI 47 (on interrogatories) inapplicable; and
2. That the
questions in the interrogatories were ALL irrelevant.
Tsatsu tackles
the first ground and argues that there’s nothing in CI 99 which repeals Order
22 of CI 47 (on interrogatories) or makes inapplicable.
The Court saw the sense in that
argument and shifted to rely on the second ground, namely, that they dismissed
the application on the ground that the questions were all irrelevant. Ok.
Tsatsu crossed them there too
and reiterated the questions in the interrogatories to show how relevant they
are to the case.
The judges got convinced there
too and now quickly sought to say that Tsatsu could ask the questions during
cross-examination. Ok.
Then Tsatsu Tsikata crossed them
again with what seems to be the highlight of the day – “my Lords, if the
questions are not relevant in the interrogatories, how can they be relevant
during cross-examination?
Then the Court now says that he is crossing the bridge (of
cross-examination) when the time has not yet come. To which the Tsatsu – Law
Faculty – replied so elegantly – “I didn’t put the bridge there, you did.”
Judge for yourself.
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