The 5-member panel, chaired by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, deferred 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, according to TV3’s Joseph Ackah-Blay, who was in court.
The same conclusion was reached for the application filed by broadcast journalist Richard Sky against the Anti-LGBTQ bill.
There are currently two lawsuits before the Supreme Court challenging the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill 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), Articles 12(1) and (2), 15(1), 17(1) and (2), 18(2), and 21(1)(a)(b)(d) and (e).
Sky is seeking eight reliefs, including an order declaring that the Speaker of Parliament contravened Article 108(a)(ii) of the Constitution by allowing Parliament to pass the bill, which imposes a charge on the Consolidated Fund or other public funds of Ghana.
Richard Dela Sky 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.
