EDWARD OKRAKU AHWIRENG vs. SETH ANSAH & 2 OTHERS

RULING This is an application for and on behalf of the plaintiff/applicant hereinafter referred to as the applicant praying the court for an order striking out the amended statement of defence and counterclaim of 2nd co-defendant for failing to comply with section 8(1) of Act 32 and for any other orders as the Honourable Court deem fit. I wish to quote the relevant paragraphs as follows: 4. The latest is the application for leave to amend 2nd co-defendant’s statement of defence and counterclaim. 5. ………the said application was filed on 15th June 2020 by learned counsel for the defendant but he stipulated his practice licence number as LIC. NO. eGAR 21488/19. 6. That I am informed by my lawyer and verily believe same to be true that on the face of the processes filed the licence number used by learned counsel had outspent its force and had expired with the result that he was not qualified to practice law in Ghana. 7. In the premises the processes that culminated in the gran...