{"id":153828,"date":"2015-09-22T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=153828"},"modified":"2015-09-22T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:48:18","slug":"justice-dery-drops-video-screening-suit-against-anas-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/justice-dery-drops-video-screening-suit-against-anas-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dery drops ‘video screening’ suit against Anas but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the implicated judges in the judicial corruption scandal, Justice Paul Uuter Dery has withdrawn\u00a0an\u00a0interlocutory injunction suit, which sought to prevent investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas from premiering the video.<\/p>\n

Justice Dery sued Anas, the Director of Estates and General Services at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Manager of the Accra International Conference Centre and the Attorney General\u00a0 with the hope of preventing the premiering of the video scheduled for today [Tuesday].<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”9Wgwgz7b4LdSWSgYLg5MUq30Yb6xGh7A”]In a surprise move,\u00a0Nii Kpakpo Addo,\u00a0the lawyer for the Justice Dery indicated they had dropped the case against Anas with no further explanation.<\/p>\n

However, it is not clear if that also means the International Conference Centre is cleared to show the video.<\/p>\n

Justice Dery had\u00a0sought for a substituted service<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after he and his lawyers complained that Anas and his investigative team Tigereyepi have been unavailable in their offices to be served the writs, though the other defendants have been served.<\/p>\n

The substituted service was granted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by the presiding judge,\u00a0Justice Gertrude Tukunor<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>but Justice Dery and his lawyers withdrew the case against Anas.<\/p>\n

Citifmonline.com<\/strong> has also\u00a0gathered that the lawyers for Justice Dery have filed a fresh suit against the International Conference Centre on Tuesday to prevent them from screening the Anas’ investigative piece which caught him [Justice Dery] and some other judges allegedly taking bribe.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey & Fred Djabanor\/ citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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