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A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an application by businessman Adolph Tetteh Adjei seeking a review of a judgment entered in favour of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in a long-running land dispute.
In a 7-0 decision delivered on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, the apex court held that the application failed to meet the minimum threshold required to trigger its review jurisdiction. The court said it had considered the motion, affidavits in support and opposition, statements of case, and oral submissions from counsel for both parties before arriving at its decision.
The dispute, which also involves Holly Quaye, centres on a parcel of prime land in Accra. The matter moved from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and eventually to the Supreme Court, which in November 2025 delivered a judgment in favour of Anas.
Dissatisfied with the ruling of the five-member panel, Mr. Tetteh filed a review application. The application was heard on January 27, 2026, by a seven-member panel presided over by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang.
Under established legal principles, the Supreme Court may only review its own decisions in exceptional circumstances, such as a fundamental error of law or fact apparent on the face of the record, discovery of new and compelling evidence previously unavailable, or a breach of the rules of natural justice.
Although lawyers for Mr. Tetteh advanced six grounds, including alleged miscarriage of justice and misapplication of the law, the full bench concluded that he had failed to satisfy the strict conditions necessary for a review.
The ruling effectively brings finality to the protracted dispute and affirms title to the disputed land in favour of Anas, who acquired it from the Ataa Tawiah Tsiniatse and Numo Ofoli Kwashie Family.
The court also reaffirmed aspects of its November 2025 decision, stating that the 2015 consent judgment of the Court of Appeal, which sought to compromise an earlier High Court ruling by Justice Ofori-Atta, remains valid unless set aside by a competent court. It noted that a pending case at the High Court is challenging the validity of that consent judgment, but until determined otherwise, it stands.
Additionally, the Supreme Court clarified that its judgment, concerning the two acres at the centre of the dispute, does not affect the rights of third parties whose grants remain valid unless ruled otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The panel that heard the review application included Justices Richard Adjei Frimpong, Hafisatu Amaleboba, Yoni Kulendi, Bright Mensah, Janapare Bartels-Kodwo, Ernest Gaewu, and was presided over by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang.
