One of the 12 High Court judges caught on video allegedly taking bribes is to cite investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas for contempt.

Justice Paul Uuter Dery is heading to court with an application for committal for contempt at the High Court against Anas, Sulemana Braimah of the Media Foundation for West Africa and two others.

This will be the third action the embattled judge is bringing to court in one week.

On Monday, September 14, 2015, Justice Dery issued a writ seeking a total of 17 reliefs, amongst them a declaration that the video evidence detailing judges (including him), allegedly receiving bribes, was illegally collected and in violation of his right to privacy.

He followed that with another writ seeking an interlocutory injunction on managers of the Accra Intentional Conference Centre against allowing the centre to be used to screen the video.

Anas and his Tiger Eye PI have announced the two-year investigative video which shows judges allegedly trading justice for pecuniary and other favours is due to be screened to the public on September 22 and 23.

Justice Dery in his earlier suits argued that showing the video will prejudice fair hearing into the impeachment proceedings initiated by the Chief Justice against him.

He said the continuous publication of transcripts of the allegations against him was unlawful.

A day after he issued the first writ seeking to injunct the publication of the transcripts, the New Crusading Guide newspaper published what it said were conversations with Justice Dery at his home where he allegedly received bribe.

This action of the newspaper where Anas is an Acting Editor-In-Chief, the judge argues, constitutes an abuse of the court and must be punished.

Justice Dery believes the intended screening of the video at the Accra International Conference Centre whilst cases against same are pending in court is designed to scandalize the court itself, abuse his person and his right to fair trial.

Justice Dery is relying on decided cases to make his case.