Weaponising Audi Alteram Partem: How Strategic Abstention is Exploited to Invalidate Judgments in Ghana’s Courts; A Case for Higher Evidentiary Threshold in Applications to Set Aside or Quash Judgements Based on Natural Justice Violations

This paper identifies a pervasive pattern wherein litigants, typically defendants who have been duly served, whether by personal service, through counsel on record, or by substituted service under Order 7 rule 6 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I. 47), engage in a calculated refusal to participate in proceedings.