APPIAH AND ANOTHER vs. PROGRESSIVE TRANSPORT OWNERS ASSOCIATION( PROTOA) [2012]DLCA3065

Date	2012-07-27
Suit No.	CIVIL CASE NO: HI/15/2012
Citation No.	[2012]DLCA3065

JUSTICE MARIAMA OWUSU JA [PRESIDING]

JUSTICE FRANCIS G KORBIEH JA

JUSTICE IRENE C DANQUAH JA

MR. ANTHONY NAMOON

EVELYN GAWU

[2012]DLCA3065
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >APPIAH AND ANOTHER<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>PROGRESSIVE TRANSPORT OWNERS ASSOCIATION( PROTOA)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
CASE NO: HI/15/2012&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; &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; &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:
27TH JULY, 2012<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>JUSTICE MARIAMA OWUSU JA&nbsp; [PRESIDING], JUSTICE FRANCIS G KORBIEH JA,
JUSTICE IRENE C DANQUAH JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>IRENE
C DANQUAH JA<o:p></o:p>This is an interlocutory
appeal arising out of the ruling of the High Court, Kumasi dated 23rd
March 2010.&nbsp; In the said ruling the court
held that;<o:p></o:p>“This Court holds the view that the
alleged conduct which resulted in their dismissal (sic) should be covered by
the Old Constitution and not the new one.&nbsp;
At this stage any other pronouncement by the Court could pre-empt the outcome
of the substantive suit so I refrained from making any suit adjourned to 16th
March 2010 for hearing.”<o:p></o:p>The Defendant aggrieved by
the said ruling filed an appeal against same seeking by way of relief to have
the said ruling reversed so that the New Constitution will apply.&nbsp; There is only one ground of appeal which
reads that;<o:p></o:p>“The learned judge erred in law in
ruling that the Old Constitution of the Association rather than the new one
should apply in this case.”<o:p></o:p>The particulars of error
of law are;<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;That the fact of the alleged impropriety in
the appointment of the Board of Directors of the Defendant was known to the
Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
the Plaintiffs cause of action accrued long before the constitution was
promulgated.<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
the Plaintiffs having failed to exercise or assert whatever rights they had
under the Old Constitution, they cannot now institute an action to assert a
right under the Old Constitution.<o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
learned judge failed to give reasons for the ruling that the Old Constitution
rather than the New Constitution should apply in this case.<o:p></o:p>The facts of this case are
that the Plaintiff instituted this action against the Defendants on 20/10/2008
claiming the following reliefs:&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;An
order setting aside the “Final Report by the Ashanti Regional Administrative
Investigation Committee on operations of the Secretariat” against the Plaintiff
which report was submitted to the “Board of Directors” of the PROTOA on 21st
July 2008.<o:p></o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</main>