ALKE GHANA LTD. vs. PROTEUS CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE LTD. AND STAR ASSURANCE COM. LTD. [2015]DLHC3506

ALKE GHANA LTD. vs. PROTEUS CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE LTD. AND STAR ASSURANCE C... [2015]DLHC3506

Date	2015-12-08
Suit No.	SUIT NO.OCC/52/2015
Citation No.	[2015]DLHC3506

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

ELIZABETH ANDERSON YEBUAH MRS WITH GEORGE ESHUN ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

OSEI WUSU ESQ. FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT

SUMMERS DARKO MS FOR 2ND DEFENDANT

[2015]DLHC3506
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">ALKE GHANA LTD.<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>PROTEUS CONSTRUCTION &amp; MAINTENANCE
LTD. AND STAR ASSURANCE COM. LTD.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[HIGH COURT
(COMMERCIAL DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO.OCC/52/2015&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: 8TH DECEMBER, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>ELIZABETH ANDERSON YEBUAH, MRS WITH GEORGE ESHUN, ESQ.,
FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>OSEI WUSU, ESQ., FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT &nbsp;<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUMMERS DARKO, MS
FOR 2ND DEFENDANT <o:p></o:p>

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p>

RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>It is provided under Order 11 rule 18(1)(b) and (d) of
the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004, C. I. 47 that:<o:p></o:p>“The Court may
at any stage of the proceedings order any pleadings or anything in any
pleadings to be struck out on the grounds that:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>(b) it is
scandalous, frivolous or vexatious or<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(d) it is
otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court”<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>And may order
the action to be stayed or dismissed or judgment to be entered accordingly”.<o:p></o:p>1st Defendant has mounted this application
under Order 11 rule 18(b) &amp; (d) seeking an order for the dismissal of the
suit on the grounds that the suit is vexatious and constitutes an abuse of the
judicial process.<o:p></o:p>The basis of the claim of the Defendant/Applicant has
been stated in the 23 paragraph of the affidavit in support of the application
and may be summarized as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Defendant/Applicant commenced an action in suit
No. AC 740/2015 against Alke &amp; Turmarks JV in the High Court differently
constituted. That the facts giving rise to the cause of action in that suit is
the same set of facts that has the foundation that Plaintiff/Respondent has
mounted its action in this court; all emanating from a subcontract for the
construction of a 60 bed hospital at Cantonments, Accra. To the Defendant/Applicant
the Plaintiff herein has resisted the claim in the suit No AC740/15 and
returned processes served on it because the Plaintiff/Respondent herein claim
that it does not know the entity that styles itself as Alke &amp; Turmarks JV and
that it is only known simpliciter as Alke Ghana Ltd.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>To the Defendant/Applicant it was the Plaintiff/Respondent
herein together with Turmarks Company, an entity under the laws of Turkey that
entered into a joint venture to perform the contract and cannot claim that it
does not know an entity called Alke &amp; Turmarks JV. And any reliefs that
Plaintiff/Respondent seeks here could legitimately be sought by way of
counterclaim in the earlier suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In an affidavit in opposition deposed to by one
Yigitcan Yildrim, the Secretary to Plaintiff/Respondent company, he denied that
Plaintiff was a party to the Suit No. AC740/2015 and that the joint venture
agreement had not created any entity by name Alke &amp; Turmarks JV in an
incorporated form or not. He further notes that as Secretary to plaintiff/Respondent
company his searches at Registrar General did not disclose the exi</main>