[2013]DLCA4014 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">ANTHONY AMEGASHIE& OR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">MILLICOM GH. LTD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> [COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">SUIT NO. H3/229</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">/2013 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">DATE: 22</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">ND</span></sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> MARCH, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 257.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">MR. YONNI KULENDI FOR PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/APPLICANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">MR. J. K. AGYEMANG FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">KANYOKE, J.A. (PRESIDING) ACQUAYE, J.A AND ADJEI, J.A<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><i><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></i></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">RULING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">DENNIS ADJEI, J.A:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">The defendant/appellant/respondent filed an appeal against the judgment of the High Court delivered on 26<sup>th</sup> January,2011. I will for the purposes of this application refer to the plaintiffs/respondents/ applicants as Applicants and the defendant/appellant/respondent as Respondent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">The respondent set out seven (7) grounds of appeal on his notice of appeal filed on 14<sup>th</sup> February, 2011. The respondent indicated its intention to file additional grounds of appeal on receipt of the record of appeal. After Form 6 had been issued, the respondent filed its written submission and argued the additional two grounds of appeal together with the original grounds of appeal without the leave of the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">The respondent filed a notice of application to incorporate the additional grounds of appeal and argued same in its written submission. The written submission was filed on 14<sup>th</sup> January, 2013 at 2.58pm whiles the notice of the application which contained the additional ground of appeal was filed on 14<sup>th</sup> January, 2012 at 2.52pm. The notice of application was filed 6 minutes before the written submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">When the applicants were served with the appellant’s written submission and the notice of application to argue additional grounds of appeal, they considered the processes as infraction to the Court of Appeal Rules C.I. 19 and decided to challenge its competence. The applicants’ application is to strike out the defendant/appellant/respondent’s notice of application to argue additional grounds of appeal and written submission filed upon the notice of application to argue additional grounds of appeal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">The application is to strike out the written submission which incorporated the additional grounds of appeal which was filed without leave of the court as well as the notice of application to argue additional grounds of appeal which was filed without a supporting affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">According to the lawyer for the applicant, the respondent should have applied to the court for leave to amend the notice of appeal to include the additional grounds of appeal and failing to apply for the amendment rendered the entire process a nullity. Rule 8 of C. I. 19 which the respondent is said to have infringed states thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in; margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">“The appellant shall not without the leave of the court, argue to be heard in support of a ground of objection not mentioned in the notice of appeal but the court may allow the appellant to amend the grounds of appeal on the terms that the court thinks just.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">This provision is unique and different from similar provisions in the Supreme Court Rules, 1996 C. I. 16 and the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2004 C. I. 47. None of the two rules talk about ‘grounds of objection’. They, however, talk about amendment to the grounds of appeal. Rules 6 (6) and 7 of the Supreme Court Rules C. I. 16 provides thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in; margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent: -.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">“6. The appellant shall not, without the leave of the court, argue or be heard in support of a ground of appeal that is not specified as a ground of appeal in the notice of appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in; margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent: -.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">7. Despite sub-rules (1) and (6), the court;<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in; margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent: -.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Ant