GRACE ANKOMAH vs. ECOBANK (GH) LTD.

The defendant/applicant has requested this Court to set aside the plaintiff/respondent’s Writ of Summons and attached Statement of Claim on the ground that same is incompetent and incurably defective. In his oral submissions before this Court, counsel for the applicant made reference to Section 11 of the Revenue Administration Act of 2016, Act 915 and stated that the plaintiff/respondent ought to have endorsed her tax identification number on the Writ of Summons and that her failure to do that amounted to non-compliance with the provisions of the above quoted Act and that this makes her Writ a nullity and therefore it should be set aside by the Court. In her response to the submission of applicant’s counsel, the counsel for the respondent stated that the procedure adopted by the counsel for the applicant was wrong in that he ought to have given notice of the fact that he was going to object to the Writ of Summons on point of law. She therefore requested the Court to refuse the ap...