FINGER MINING LIMITED AND 4 OTHERS vs. CECILIA MENSAH-BROWN AND 5 OTHERS

ASIEDU, JA. My Lords, we have been called upon in this appeal filed on the 29th December 2017, to decide on the propriety of a ruling given by the learned trial High Court Judge in this matter on the 8th December 2017, in which the learned Judge struck out from the writ of summons and statement of claim, the name of the 3rd defendant/respondent herein as not having been properly joined to the instant suit. The facts of the case are that, the plaintiffs are all Limited Liability Mining Companies who claim to own mineral concession licences on parcels of land situate in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region of the Republic of Ghana. The plaintiffs/appellants who, in this appeal, will be referred to simply as the plaintiffs have averred in paragraph 6 of their amended statement of claim filed on the 27th February 2015, that “their respective concessions are contiguous and share a common boundary with each other and all their concessions are at a common area.” The plaintiff...