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A Court of Appeal in Accra has thrown out a law suit which sought to restrain the General Superintendent of the Savior Church, Opanyin Abraham Kweku Adusei and four others from using the name of the Church for any Spiritual and Religious activity. The court presided over by Justice Gertrude Torkonoo described the application by the plaintiff, Mr. Asante Asirifi and two others as premature thereby upholding an earlier ruling by the High Court. This comes on the heels of a ten year legal tussel over the ownership of the church which led to the granting of an interlocutory injunction by an Accra Fast Track High Court, restraining Abraham Adusei and four others, from using the name of Saviour Church of Ghana, to either organize or celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Church earlier this year. The court also restrained agents, servants and assigns of the five persons at Osiem, or at any of the church's branches nationwide, pending the final determination of the case. The ex-parte motion was filed at an Accra Fast Track High Court by Opanyin Peter Kwabena Adjei, Director of the Church. Atta Akyea, counsel for Opanyin Adjei, had prayed the court that a copy of the notice of order of interlocutory injunction, be served on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), to ensure the rule of law, and to avoid any situation of lawlessness and the breach of peace. But the Appeals Court threw out the suit restraining the General Superintendent of the Saviour Church of Ghana, thus paving way for him to conduct all church activities in the name of the church.