[2017]DLHC3934 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">THE <span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">R</span>E<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">PU</span>BL<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>C<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0;letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">SH<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>E <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">MA</span>SS<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span>H AND <span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">F</span>EL<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt">I</span>X<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">N</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>I<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">D</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">AR</span>KU<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">M</span>OO, <span style="position:relative;top:.5pt;mso-text-raise:-.5pt">E<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">XPAR</span>TE: E<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">MM</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">NU</span>EL <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">N</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>I<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">M</span>ON<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>KOT<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">E</span>Y</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [HIGH COURT (GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION), ACCRA]</span><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-right:.2in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";position:relative;top:.5pt; mso-text-raise:-.5pt;letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">S</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";position:relative;top:.5pt; mso-text-raise:-.5pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">UIT N<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt">O</span>. CR 313<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">/</span>2016</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> DATE: 3</span><sup><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">RD</span></sup><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> APRIL, 2017</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-right:.2in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">REDER<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>CK<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">N</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">I</span>-<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">S</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">H</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span>E<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">N</span>EEQU<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">Y</span>E<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">F</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span>R THE <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">A</span>PP<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt">L</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">I</span>C<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">N</span>T<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";letter-spacing:.05pt">IS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">H<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">M</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">E</span>L<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span>ND<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">A</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">N</span>I<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span>BDULAI<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">F</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span>R THE<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt">1S</span>T <span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">R</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">E</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">S</span>P<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span>NDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">THER<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">E</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">S</span>A<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">A</span>BE<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">N</span>A<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">B</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span>DU F<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span>R THE<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt">2</span>ND <span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">R</span>E<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">S</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">P</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">O</span>NDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-right:.2in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CORAM: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-right:.2in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">DECISI<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">O</span>N<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">AP<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">P</span>LIC<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">A</span>TION<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">F</span>OR<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>CO<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">MM</span>I<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">T</span>TAL <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">F</span>OR <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">C</span>ONTE<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">M</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">P</span>T<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">INTRODUCTIO<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">[1] &n