[2019]DLHC10202February 21, 2019High Court

DAVID OFOSU, MR. ALBERT BAHUN WILSON AND MRS. EUNICE BAHUN WILSON vs. F.K.A COMPANY LIMITED, ERIC DAANO AND NATHANIEL MYERS ESQ.

The High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004, provides per Order 4 rule 5 (2) (a) and (b) as follows:- 5 (2) “At any stage of proceedings the Court may on such terms as it thinks just either of its own motion or on application (a) order any person who has been improperly or unnecessarily made a party or who for any reason is no longer a party or a necessary party to cease to be a party; (b) order any person who ought to have been joined as a party or whose presence before the Court is necessary to ensure that all matters in dispute in the proceedings are effectively and completely determined and adjudicated upon to be added as a party.” It is under this rule that the first defendant/applicant has prayed the Court for an order to join one Patience Owusu to the substantive suit as the fourth plaintiff and also to disjoin the third defendant as a party to the suit. The reasons advanced by the applicant for its request are that in respect of Patience Owusu, the applicant cla...