The case of Dowuona VI vrs. Barclays Bank Ghana Ltd [2023] GHASC 88 (19th July 2023) reiterates the tone for the duty incumbent on us when exercising our jurisdiction as a second appellate Court. In the said case, the venerable Ackah-Yensu JSC. said as follows:
The well-established rule of law is that an appeal is by way of rehearing, and an appellate court is therefore entitled to look at the entire evidence on record and come to conclusions on both the facts and the law. This position has been stated in a long line of decisions of this Court such as Tuakwa v Bosom [2001-2002] SCGLR 61; Oppong v Anarfi [2011] 1 SCGLR 556; Dexter Johnson v The Republic, Opare Yeboah & Others v
Barclays Bank Ghana Ltd. [2011] 1 SCGLR 330; and, Agyewaa v P & T Corporation [2007-2008] SCGLR 985.”