[2017]DLHC16614 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">UNION SAVINGS & LOANS COMPANY LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(APPLICANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;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">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;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">KGM ALUMINUM & ALLIED SERVICES LTD & 2 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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" align="center" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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: 5.45pt;"> <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;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO: MISC/0091/2016 IN DATE: 9<sup>TH</sup> JUNE, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">NANA ABA AKWAABA ACQUAH FOR MR. KISSI AGYABENG FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><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: 5.45pt;"> <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;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">MS. AKUSHIKA DADZIE FOR RESPONDENT/APPLICANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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:5.45pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J. <o:p></o:p></span></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: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.45pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>instant<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>application<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>seeks<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>court<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“to<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>set<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>aside<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>fi.fa,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>for stay of any further attachment and execution of Defendants/Judgment Debtors/Applicants’ attached properties, for an order that the inventory of the goods attached be conducted in the 2<sup>nd</sup> Respondent/Applicant’s business premises and for payment of judgment debt by instalments.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.45pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The application flows out of an attachment done in pursuance of an order to possess<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>realise<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>charged<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>properties<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>under<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Borrowers<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Lenders<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Act, 2008, Act 773. The said order was made on the 21<sup>st</sup> November 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.45pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The applicant says that after the order was procured, the respondent caused a writ of fifa to be handed over to the applicant after which the business premises of the 1<sup>st</sup><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>applicant was locked up. The<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>applicant<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>says that<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the order made by<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>court<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>does not authorize<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the respondent to lock up any<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>premises of the applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.45pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Applicant<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>says<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>no<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>entry<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>served<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>up<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>date, the<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt"> </span>applicants<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>know<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>much<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>owing<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>respondent<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>herein<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>view of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>th