HARRIET MORRISON (NEE BAAH) AND CHARLES CANTAMANTO BAAH (JNR) vs. REGISTERED TRUSTEES VICTORY BIBLE CHURCH AND OTHER [2015]DLSC3021

HARRIET MORRISON (NEE BAAH) AND CHARLES CANTAMANTO BAAH (JNR) vs. REGISTERED TRU... [2015]DLSC3021

Date	2015-01-14
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/14/2014
Citation No.	[2015]DLSC3021

ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING)

DOTSE JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

BENIN JSC

AKAMBA JSC

NANA AMA AMPONSAH ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFFS /APPELLANTS/ APPELLANTS.

RICHARD TWUMASI ANKRAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS /RESPONDENTS/ RESPONDENTS.

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >HARRIET
MORRISON (NEE BAAH) AND CHARLES CANTAMANTO BAAH (JNR)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>REGISTERED
TRUSTEES VICTORY BIBLE CHURCH AND OTHER<o:p></o:p>&nbsp; [SUPREME COURT,
ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/14/2014&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: 14TH JANUARY, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>NANA
AMA AMPONSAH ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFFS /APPELLANTS/ APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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RICHARD
TWUMASI ANKRAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS /RESPONDENTS/ RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING), DOTSE JSC, GBADEGBE JSC,
BENIN JSC, AND AKAMBA JSC<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>GBADEGBE
JSC:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of
Appeal that reversed the decision of the trial High Court in the matter herein.
By the decision of the trial court proceedings in the action herein were
terminated summarily with the plaintiffs’ case being dismissed and judgment
entered for the 1st defendant on its counterclaim.&nbsp; I have read the record of appeal in the
matter&nbsp; herein and had regard to the
respective briefs submitted to us by the parties through their counsel and in
my thinking, the question for our decision today is whether in reversing the
learned trial judge of the High Court, Accra, the learned Justices of the Court
of Appeal &nbsp;correctly applied&nbsp; the settled principles of the&nbsp; court discernible from a collection of cases
in applications brought&nbsp; under the rules
of Court and the inherent jurisdiction to strike out pleadings and for stated
reasons to either stay, dismiss, or enter judgment for a party to the
proceedings in respect of which the objection&nbsp;
has been taken to &nbsp;a defective
pleading.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;As the
application was expressed in the notice of motion before the trial court to
have been brought bothunder the rules of Court and the inherent jurisdiction, I
commence my consideration by referring to the relevant provision of the High
Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, CI 46 under which such an application is
authorised.&nbsp; By Order 11 rule 18(1), it
is provided thus:<o:p></o:p>“The Court may at any stage of the proceedings order any pleading or
anything in any pleading to be struck out on the grounds that<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It
discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence or<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It
is scandalous, frivolous or vexatious or <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It
may prejudice, embarrass, or delay the fair trial of the action, or <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp; It
is otherwise an abuse of the processes </main>