ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI (GH) LTD PER ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR OBUASI – ASHANTI vs. CHARLES DAKORAH BAYELLAH AND 5 OTHERS

TORKORNOO (MRS), J.A. On 27th October 2014, six named persons sued the Defendant/Appellant for the following reliefs: 1. A declaration that the Plaintiffs are entitled to the redundancy and/or retirement packages declared by the Defendant Company. 2. An order directing the Defendant Company to pay the Plaintiffs the entitled redundancy and/or retrenchment packages declared by the Defendant Company. 3. Interest on the said amount from the date due to the date of final payment. On 20th October 2015, the Plaintiff/Respondent’s counsel filed an application ‘for joinder’ in which he indicated on the motion paper that he was acting for and on behalf of ‘the Applicants’ who wanted to be joined to the suit as 7th to 28th Plaintiffs to the suit. The title of the application did not in any manner indicate who these applicants were. It was in the supporting affidavit that one Ernest Joe Mensah, who averred that he was one of the applicants and the deponent to the affidavit, set ou...