[2016]DLHC17428 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">KELVIN ATSU WILSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 238.75pt 244.25pt left 271.5pt 290.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">GLO MOBILE GHANA LTD. & 2 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 236.25pt left 299.25pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 168.75pt 278.15pt 305.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 3.55pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. GJ/407/2016 DATE: 14<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 96.25pt center 244.25pt left 267.0pt 318.75pt 415.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 3.55pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">WISDOM ANOTHNIO ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">DANIEL ADDO ASIEDU ESQ. FOR 2ND DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 143.25pt 171.75pt 288.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.55pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 3.55pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> RULING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The court has been called upon in this application to make a determination<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>as to whether pending the adjudication of the main disputes between the parties, the court ought to restrain the bearer of an unconditional Bank guarantee from having recourse to that security.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Plaintiff/Applicant has moved the court for the grant of an interlocutory injunction praying the court to restrain the 1<sup>st</sup> Defendant/Respondent from taking steps to realize the Bank guarantee provided on behalf of the Plaintiff/Applicant in favour of the 1<sup>st</sup> defendant/respondent or an order to restrain the payment of an amount of Ghc994,750.00 as the sum of money that 1<sup>st</sup> defendant/respondent contends it is entitled to. In that same vein plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:2.35pt"> </span>also<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>seeks<span style="letter-spacing:2.55pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>restrain<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>2<sup>nd</sup><span style="letter-spacing: 2.55pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>3<sup>rd</sup><span style="letter-spacing:2.55pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">defendant/respondents</span> from honouring any demand for the payment of the security that would be made by the 1<sup>st</sup> defendant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In a rather circumbendibus affidavit, further affidavit and supplementary affidavits in support of this application, the applicant depose that his business, Chafal Communication Ventures, deals in sales, marketing of SIM cards, rechargeable cards, modems and was appointed as a Business associate or dealer by 1<sup>st</sup> defendant to market its products. Due to his credit performance in the marketing of 1<sup>st</sup> defendant products, Glo Mobile Ghana inundated<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>him<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>products for<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>distribution far<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in excess<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>of what<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>needed. He did not have space to stock the excess<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>products pushed to him for sale by the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>1<sup>st</sup> defendant whereupon the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>latter<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>offered to keep them<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for the applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:3.55pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",se