ERIC OSEI AMANKWAH vs. CHARLOTTE ASEIDU NAA ABENA [2018]DLCA4721

Date	2018-07-19
Suit No.	SUIT NO.H1/118/2018
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA4721

C.J. HONYENUGA (J.A) PRESIDING

AVRIL LOVELACE-JOHNSON (J.A)

SUURBAAREH (J.A)

MR. RAY APPIAH AMPONSAH FOR DEFENDANT/APPELANT

JUSTICE YAKUBU ABDULAI FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2018]DLCA4721
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ERIC OSEI AMANKWAH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CHARLOTTE ASEIDU NAA
ABENA&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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.H1/118/2018&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: 19TH JULY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR. RAY APPIAH AMPONSAH
FOR DEFENDANT/APPELANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JUSTICE
YAKUBU ABDULAI FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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C.J.
HONYENUGA (J.A) PRESIDING, AVRIL LOVELACE-JOHNSON (J.A), SUURBAAREH (J.A)<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AVRIL LOVELACE-JOHNSON (J.A.):<o:p></o:p>This
appeal is against the ruling of the High court delivered on 14th
March 2016 by which the said court refused to set aside its earlier order
relisting a writ of summons and statement of claim granted upon a motion ex parte.<o:p></o:p>At
the trial court the Defendant based her application on the position that by the
motion being brought ex parte she had been deprived of an opportunity to be
heard. This deprivation being a breach of the audi auteram partem rule, the
said ruling and all proceedings taken thereafter were a nullity.<o:p></o:p>In
this court, the Defendant, now Appellant bases her appeal on the following six
grounds<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Learned Judge failed to appreciate
that the purported Motion Ex parte, which at the same time doubled as a MOTION
ON NOTICE, in substance filed on 20/11/2015 for re-listment of the suit filed
on 20/11/2015 prepared and signed by a CLERK by name ELLYN ASIAMAH of
Crown Legal Bureau Accra, who is not a Lawyer is void and also constituted and
amounted to Statutory infractions of Section 8(10 of the Legal Professional Act
1960 (Act 32).<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Learned Judge failed to consider
and comment on the fact that the “Motion” for Re-listment of the suit mentioned
supra was incompetent and ought not have been heard as an Ex parte Motion to
re-list the suit.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Learned Judge has not set the suit
down for either pre-trial or case management conference thus the ongoing
proceedings is premature and sins against “Case Management” provisions of High
Court (Civil Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules, 2014 (C. I. 87) 7a(1) (b), 7a(2). <o:p></o:p>4.