Commonwealth Hall withdraws legal action --Against University of Ghana, Saturday October 23, 2010, pg 3


The leadership of the Junior Common Room (JCR) of the  Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana has withdrawn the suit challenging the university authorities for attempting to change the status of Commonwealth Hall into a mixed gender graduate hall.

                                                                        The Commonwealth Hall

Some representatives of the Hall in May this   year  sued the University seeking a number of reliefs including an order restraining the defendant from taking any step to shut down or convert the Commonwealth Hall into a post graduate mixed-gender hall.

The plaintiff by a motion dated October 7, 2010 and an affidavit signed by the President of hall, Joseph Laari,claimed he had the consent of the members of the Hall to depose to the affidavit.

The Legal Counsel of the University, Ms Akyaa Arhin, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said the affidavit stated that the students were discontinuing the action against the university meaning “the plaintiff in the case has withdrawn all claims in their suit.”

She said t he Judge, Justice K.A. Ofori-Atta, upon hearing the plaintiff motion in court ordered that the case be discontinued and the action strike out.

Ms Arhin expressed satisfaction with the latest development in the case saying “the University is satisfied as this mean that at the moment, there are no further processes pending against the university in court so far as this matter is concern.”

She, however, declined to comment on the position of the university on the status of the hall.

It would be recalled that earlier this year, the authorities of the University had decided that with effect from the 2010/2011 academic year the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana would no longer be a single sex hall.

The Hall which has over the past 54 years served as an all male hall was to be turned into a mixed hall for graduate students of the University.

According to the school's authorities, the behaviour of residents of the all-male hall over the years has cast a slur on the image of the institute, justifying it with an incident at the last graduation ceremony where it was alleged students from the hall heckled former United Nations Boss and Chancellor of the University, Kofi Annan

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