HAYI FAMILY vs. UNILEVER GHANA LIMITED, KWARITAN GHANA LIMITED

JUDGMENT 1. Background I need to state at the outset that I did not hear this suit. I was asked to deliver the judgment in the suit whose hearing began on 9 December 2013 by this court, then presided over by His Lordship Justice N.C.A. Agbevor (J) (as he then was) who completed the hearing on 19 October 2017 and scheduled to deliver the judgment for 19 February 2018, which has serially been adjourned over the period up to the close of 2018 when the trial judge was appointed to the Court of Appeal. Delivery of the judgment, therefore, fell into hiatus. Upon application by the parties, His Lordship the Chief Justice in his letter dated 9 November 2021 authorized, and directed that I deliver not only the judgment in this suit but also judgments in three other suits that had been pending before the trial judge Agbevor J. The Registrar of the Court managed to recover the dockets from Agbevor J, which had enabled me to comply with the directives of the Chief Justice; indeed, this is the...