MAHMOUND’S JEWELLERY LTD. vs. G. T. BANK (GH) LTD AND GUARANTY TRUST BANK (GH) LTD [2016]DLHC3594

MAHMOUND’S JEWELLERY LTD. vs. G. T. BANK (GH) LTD AND GUARANTY TRUST BANK (GH) L... [2016]DLHC3594

Date	2016-06-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO.CM/0206/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC3594

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

PLAINTIFF REPRESENTED BY ABDUL KADIL

APPLICANT EUSTALE BAST-PLANGE

JONATHAN SARBLAH ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF

KWBENA ADU-KUSI ESQ. FOR APPLICANT

[2016]DLHC3594
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">MAHMOUND’S
JEWELLERY LTD.<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>G. T. BANK (GH) LTD AND GUARANTY TRUST BANK (GH) 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.CM/0206/2016&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; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 16TH JUNE, 2016 <o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>PLAINTIFF
REPRESENTED BY ABDUL KADIL <o:p></o:p>APPLICANT,
EUSTALE BAST-PLANGE <o:p></o:p>JONATHAN
SARBLAH, ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KWBENA ADU-KUSI, ESQ. FOR APPLICANT <o:p></o:p>

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

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

</div>This is a motion by the Applicant, Guaranty Trust
Bank, seeking an order for the dismissal of the suit and the subsequent
judgment obtained and in the alternative applicant prays for the following reliefs:<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;">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order setting
aside the service of the entry of judgment on the applicant.<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;">ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order to stay
the execution of the default judgment entered against the defendant pending the
determination of this application.<o:p></o:p><span 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;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">iii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order setting
aside the service of the writ and statement of claim&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; on the applicant/interested party.<o:p></o:p><span 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;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">iv.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order to
restrain the plaintiff from executing the judgment against the applicant.<o:p></o:p>In an affidavit deposed to in support of the
application by one Miss Chineze Ikeduba, she claims that the processes in this
suit has wrongly been served on the applicant who is not a party to the suit
and that the applicant is completely different from the defendant to this suit.
Besides, that there is no company in Ghana by name as G.T. Bank (GH) Ltd, the
defendant in this suit. As there is no such company in Ghana it was not proper
for the processes to be served on the applicant. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This has vehemently been opposed by the
Plaintiff/Respondent contending that the applicant is only interested in hiding
under the veil of incorporation to perpetuate fraud not only on the Plaintiff
but on the public as whole. This is because the defendant has always held
itself out to the general public under the trade name and logo as G.T Bank. And
the applicant herein is the same as the Defendant that has been sued as the two
are not two different entities. <o:p></o:p>