Anti-LGBTQI Bill: Attorney-General welcomes Supreme Court decision to defer ruling on Amanda Odoi’s application

Attorney-General Godfred Dame has welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court to defer its ruling on the request to restrain Parliament from transmitting the anti-LGBT bill filed by Dr. Amanda Odoi, until the substantive case is heard and determined.

Dame says the apex court’s decision is not unusual because the justices referred to existing rule on injunctions to arrive at their decision.

“What happens is that the court indicated that  we have to await the determination of the main action

“The court says the issues can be better handled in the substantive action and it is possible for a court to do that. there is nothing unusual at all the court actually referred to an existing rule on injunctions and so I think the court is fair in coming by that approach,” he told TV3’s Joseph Ackah-Blay after court proceedings on Wednesday, July 17.

The 5-member panel, chaired by Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo the pronouncement on the application for an interlocutory injunction against the transmission of the anti-gay bill to the presidency by Parliament on Wednesday, July 17.

The Case has been adjourned indefinitely.

The same conclusion was given to the application filed by broadcast journalist Richard Sky against the anti-lgbtqi bill, as well.

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Background

There are currently two lawsuits before the Supreme Court challenging the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by Parliament.

Richard Dela Sky is challenging the constitutionality of Parliament’s passage of the “Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill.”

He argues that the bill violates several provisions of the 1992 Constitution, including Article 33(5) and Articles 12(1) and (2), 15(1), 17(1) and (2), 18(2), and 21(1)(a)(b)(d) and (e).

She is seeking a restraining order to prevent the Speaker, the Attorney-General, and the Clerk of Parliament from sending the bill to President Akufo-Addo for approval.