[2017]DLCA5014February 14, 2017Court of Appeal

RAOUL ABOU-CHEDID vs. GOLD COAST SECURITIES LIMITED

On the 11th of January 2017, the defendant/appellant/applicant (hereafter referred to as the applicant) filed a notice of motion for leave to amend a notice of appeal filed on 12th July 2016 at the Registry of the Appeal Court. The application was supported by an eight-paragraph affidavit sworn to by one Audrey Twum, a partner of Dr. Seth Twum and Associates. She deposed to the following matters: That this court gave judgment in the instant matter against the applicant and that the applicant lodged an appeal against that decision by filing a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court on the 12th of July 2016. The said notice of appeal she averred, had inadvertently been signed in the name of Dr. Seth Twum and Associates as solicitor, instead of Dr. Seth Twum. The application was thus brought to effect a correction of the name appearing under the solicitor’s signature. The plaintiff/respondent/respondent (the respondent) in a thirty-one paragraph affidavit opposed the instant applicati.....