[2017]DLCA4919April 27, 2017Court of Appeal

ISHAK ALHASSAN vs. EXCELLENT COOLING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

AGYEMANG JA: This is an appeal against the ruling of the High Court (Land Division); Accra delivered on the 29th of February 2016. The matters that have given rise to the instant appeal are the following: The plaintiff commenced suit at the court below seeking inter alia, declaration of title and recovery of possession of a parcel of land referred to as Plot Number 14, Dzorwulu, Accra and described more particularly in the writ of summons and a plan attached thereto. Pleadings having closed, and witness statements having been filed, pretrial proceedings commenced. It was at this stage that the defendant/appellant (hereafter referred to as the defendant) filed a notice of motion “for an order to produce and/or disclose the identity of the plaintiff herein or to provide better and further particulars of the plaintiff as existing”. The application was supported by an affidavit in which the defendant’s solicitor deposed that in an earlier suit at the Madina District Court over t...