MERCHANT BANK GH LTD vs CROWN PETROLEUM (GH) LTD [2010]DLHC16308

Date	2010-03-31
Suit No.	SUIT NO.IRL447/09
Citation No.	[2010]DLHC16308

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE P. BRIGHT MENSAH

MR. AKROFI KUMOJI

[2010]DLHC16308
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MERCHANT BANK GH LTD <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CROWN PETROLEUM (GH) LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">SUIT NO.IRL447/09&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 31ST MARCH, 2010<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE P. BRIGHT MENSAH <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On the 9th
day of March, 2010 the Plaintiffs herein filed in the registry of this court,
per their lawyers Jan Chambers, Accra a Motion on Notice seeking an order under
Order 4 r 3(1) of the High Court (Civil
Procedure) Rules, 2004 (CI 47) to join a David &nbsp;Boye Sowah in this suit as the 2nd defendant.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is enacted
in Order 4 r 3(1) of CI 47:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “3(1) Subject to rule 4 of this
Order, two or more persons may be joined <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;together in the same action as
plaintiffs or as defendants without<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;leave of Court, where<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:74.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;tab-stops:27.0pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
if separate actions were brought by or against each of them,<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; some common question of law or fact
would arise in all the<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; actions, and<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:74.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">&nbsp;<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:74.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp; all rights to relief claimed in the action
whether they are<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:74.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; joint, several or in the alternative
are in respect of or arise<o:p></o:p>