During the trial, the 5th Defendant neither appeared before the Court to tender the review report nor subjected to cross examination. Rather, the report was tendered through someone, who never participated in the review process and was curiously admitted in evidence. The Court convicted the Plaintiffs based on the review report which it referred to as the best among the autopsy reports. Accordingly, the Plaintiffs are contending that their conviction and sentence based essentially on the review report occasioned a miscarriage of justice, induced and procured by the 5th Defendants’ autopsy report. It was equally the contention of the Plaintiffs that the High Court of Justice of Ghana had ruled that the autopsy report of the 5th Defendant is reckless, negligent and a baseless conclusion in medical terms. Relying interalia on the breach of their rights to fair hearing, the Plaintiffs brought this application seeking the following orders and reliefs from the Court, namely; 1. That the conviction and sentencing of the Plaintiffs to death by hanging is a result of the reckless, baseless and negligent review of autopsy report of the 5th Defendant. 2. A declaration that the conviction and sentence of the applicants to death by hanging resulting from the autopsy report of the 5th Defendant amounted to the violation of their rights to life, freedom of movement and fair hearing. 5

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