SAMUEL GYAMFI AND OTHERS vs. BANK OF GHANA AND ANOTHER

Before me is an application for an order of the court to strike out the suit against the 1stDefendant/Applicant on the ground that the statement of claim discloses no reasonable cause of action against the 1stDefendant. The application is premised on Order 11 rule 18 (1) (a) and (b) of the High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2004 (CI 47). The background to the application On 29th day of June, 2012, the Plaintiffs/Respondents herein filed a writ of summons against the 1stDefendant/Applicant and three others for the following reliefs: “(a) A declaration that the deliberate and intentional acts of the 1st defendant, 2nd defendant & 3rd defendant permitting and indulging the 4th defendant to operate commercially as a bank concern in the Greater Accra region, Ashanti region and the Brong-Ahafo region respectively for over 2 years without the requisite Bank of Ghana banking license was not only negligent and unconscionable but unconstitutional, fraudulent and legally impermissible and as.....