JAMES DANFUL AND PAUL EGYAM vs. EMMANUEL BOADU YEBOAH, J.K. SOFO, SAMUEL BOADU, ALEX GYAMPOH AND KANESHIE DRIVERS ASSOCIATION [2015]DLHC9090

JAMES DANFUL AND PAUL EGYAM vs. EMMANUEL BOADU YEBOAH, J.K. SOFO, SAMUEL BOADU,... [2015]DLHC9090

Date	2015-07-17
Suit No.	SUIT NO. AP 127/2015
Citation No.	[2015]DLHC9090

JUSTICE P. BRIGHT MENSAH

NANA ASANTE BEDIATUO FOR THE A PPLICANTS

NATHAN YANNEY FOR THE RESPONDENTS

[2015]DLHC9090
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1963 (ACT 179)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>IN THE MATTER OF KANESHIE DRIVERS ASSOCIATION<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY JAMES DANFUL PAUL EGYAM,<o:p></o:p>JOHN DONKOR AND SAMUEL COFIE PURSUANT TO s.217, s.218 AND s. 162
OF THE COMPANIES ACT<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JAMES DANFUL AND PAUL EGYAM<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL BOADU YEBOAH, J.K.
SOFO, SAMUEL BOADU, ALEX GYAMPOH&nbsp;&nbsp; AND KANESHIE
DRIVERS ASSOCIATION<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, (FAST
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SUIT NO. AP 127/2015&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; DATE:
17TH JULY 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>NANA ASANTE BEDIATUO FOR THE A PPLICANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NATHAN
YANNEY FOR THE RESPONDENTS <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>JUSTICE P. BRIGHT MENSAH <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Can
a law firm sign a legal process?&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>That is the
penultimate question the court is being called upon to answer in reaction to an
interesting preliminary legal point raised in this instant case. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “…………………&nbsp; while a process in a suit may be signed by a
party to&nbsp; the suit or counsel representing
this party………………… it is doubtful&nbsp; if a
firm can sign a court process in a case in which it is a party……..”<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/JAMES%20DANFUL%20&amp;amp;%20ANR%20v%20EMMANUEL%20YEBOAH%20&amp;amp;%20ORS%20-%20CAN%20A%20LAW%20FIRM%20SIGN%20A%20LEGAL%20PROCESS%20(1).docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>
<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>This statement is
attributable to Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta J.C.A,
(a Justice of Appeal of Nigeria) in a case that went on appeal to the Court
of Appeal of Nigeria from the decision of the Ondo High Court entitled Nigerian Romanian Wood &amp; Anr v J.O. Akingbule (2010) LPELR-9140 (CA).&nbsp; One of the most crucial issues in the
case turned on the construction to be put on a legal process signed not by the
Plaintiff or a legal practitioner but the law firm representing the
Plaintiff.&nbsp; The Nigeria Court of Appeal
in that case discussed extensively, the issue as to whether a law firm can sign
a legal process. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>Whereas there has
been a wealth of scholarship in Nigerian jurisprudence on the issue, there is
poverty of judicial authorities on the issue in Ghana,
on the other</main>