DR ODIKO QUARSHIE vs. DANIEL M. K. OKPOTI AND 13 OTHERS [2016]DLHC11988

Date	2016-03-04
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/646/12
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC11988

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS)

MOHAMMED B SAHNOON COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF

PAUL OPOKU COUNSEL FOR 1ST & 2ND DEFENDANTS

THERESA ESSON BENJAMIN COUNSEL FOR 3RD DEFENDANT

[2016]DLHC11988
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DR ODIKO QUARSHIE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>DANIEL
M. K. OKPOTI AND 13 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION)]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">SUIT
NO. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;
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&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">FAL/646/12&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: 4TH&nbsp;MARCH 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

MOHAMMED B
SAHNOON COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF ,<o:p></o:p>

PAUL OPOKU
COUNSEL FOR 1ST &amp; 2ND DEFENDANTS,<o:p></o:p>

THERESA
ESSON BENJAMIN COUNSEL FOR 3RD DEFENDANT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N.
S. SITTIE (MRS)<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 6pt 0cm 1pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Preliminary Comments<o:p></o:p>This
judgment was originally slated for 29th February 2016 but it came to
light that the proceedings for 21st July 2015 was missing as part of data that crushed in Land Court
5 in the old complex. Parties were
requested to provide copies of their notes to reconstruct the
proceedings. 3rd Defendant’s Counsel provided her notes which was accepted as a fair representation of the day’s proceedings
with the court notes for that hearing day on the 21stJuly 2015. The
case was adjourned for judgment
to be delivered on 4th March 2016. In the course of the
week precisely the 2nd March 2016, Counsel for Plaintiff sent what
appeared to be the transcribed proceedings of the 21st July 2015. I
am not sure if the other parties have copies. The Court was informed that
Counsel for 3rd Defendant had an emergency but promised to file an
address by close of day Monday 29th February but this was not forth
coming. The court did not receive any address from Counsel for 1st
and 2nd Defendants either. The Court set down the 29TH of
October for a visit to the locus but somehow the parties did not contact the
Registrar to make the necessary arrangement for the locus inquo so the court cancelled the visit. The blame was laid at
the doorstep of Counsel for Plaintiff, who I felt should have taken more
interest because he made the application for
the locus.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff
took out a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against three (3) Defendants
on 29th May 2012. Plaintiff was granted leave to join ten (10) other
Defendants on 21st November 2012. On the order of the Court
Plaintiff was granted leave to rectify his reliefs endorsed on the statement of
claim on 3rd May 2013. The new reliefs were just as those on the
original statement of claim. Plaintiff claims the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order of ejectment of the
Defendants from the frontage of Plaintiff’s land which the Defendants are occupying
unlawfully.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual<spa</main>