[2017]DLHC17122 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">KOFI DANKWAH & 10 ORS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MRS ELSIE DIANA OKYNE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;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="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;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:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">SUIT N0. FAL 940/14 DATE: 16<sup>TH</sup> JANUARY 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">PETER BOAFO ESQUIRE FOR PLAINTIFFS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">DOROTHY NEEQUAYE (MRS) FOR THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HER LADYSHIP MRS. ELIZABETH ANKUMAH 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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; 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;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">RULING</span></b><b><span style="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><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">This is a ruling in respect of Motion on Notice filed on 31<span style="position:relative;top:-5.0pt;mso-text-raise:5.0pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>October 2014. The defendant Applicant is seeking an order to strike out this suit filed by the plaintiffs/respondents herein. Counsel for the defendant/applicant<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>herein<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>coming under<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Order<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>11<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>rule<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>18<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>(1)<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>(a) (b)<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>(d)<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>High<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>(Civil<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Procedure)<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Rules<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2004<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>CI<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">47</span>. The basis of the plea of the defendant/applicant can be found in paragraphs<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>3,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>4,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>7,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>8,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>10<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>affidavit<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>support filed<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>31/10/14 as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="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:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:23.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“3.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>That<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>summons<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>statement<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>claim are not<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>in consonance with the High Court Civil Procedure Rules CI 47.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:23.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">4. That …this<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>suit<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>discloses no reasonable cause<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of action, it is frivolous<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>vexatious<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>process<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Court…</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:23.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">7. That by the plaintiffs own showing, they are asking this court to<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>set aside the consent judgment in Suit N0.A9/202/08 and as l am advised…the principles applied in this area of law: (a) the plaintiff must establish that there was a mutual mistake (b) that there was fraud<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>relating<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>judgment<span st