[2018]DLHC9301 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">DR ARCHIBALD FREDERICK MCKENZIE BADOE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">GOLD COAST FUND MANAGEMENT LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">[HIGH COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">SUIT NO. OCC 25/2019 DATE: 13TH DECEMBER, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">MARIAM AGYEMAN GYASI JAWHARY (MRS.) FOR THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;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; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">EMMANUEL AMOAH FOR THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;tab-stops:15.0pt center 234.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CORAM:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:none; padding:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">RULING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On 22<sup>nd</sup> October, 2018, the Plaintiff filed a writ against the defendant for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">a.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An order for the payment of the total sums GHC328,127.43 (Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand, One Hundred and twenty-seven Ghana Cedis, forty-three pesewas) being the principal sum placed by the Plaintiff with the Defendant as a structured finance investment and which investment matured on 5<sup>th</sup> September 2018 and ought to have been paid to him at the said date of 6<sup>th</sup> September 2018 but which sum the Defendant has failed to pay despite repeated demand since 10<sup>th</sup> September 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">b.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An order for the payment of all sums due the Plaintiff from the Defendant on the sum of GHC328,127.43 (Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand, One Hundred and twenty-seven Ghana Cedis, forty-three pesewas) stated I relief (a) supra since 6<sup>th</sup> September 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">c.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An order for the payment of the sum of GH50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis) and accrued interest thereon invested by the Plaintiff with the Defendant on 24<sup>th</sup> August 2018 till date of final judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">d.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An order for the payment of interest on the principal sum of GHC328,127.43 (Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand, One Hundred and twenty-seven Ghana Cedis, forty-three pesewas) at the prevailing commercial bank lending rate at the date of the judgment or in the alternative at the rate of 27% being the rate of interest the Defendant was paying to the Plaintiff on his structured investment with the Defendant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">e.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Cost including legal fees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In this application, the plaintiff/applicant is praying this court for an order entering judgment in default of defence pursuant to Order 13 rule 1 of the High Court (Civil Procedure Rules), 2004, CI 47.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The grounds of the application are contained in the affidavit in support filed by the applicant on 28/11/2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The defendant/respondent failed or refused to file an affidavit in response. However, after counsel for the applicant had moved the motion, counsel for the respondent responded on a point of law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Counsel for the respondent took aim at the propriety of the application as well as the processes filed prior to the instant motion. Counsel quoted the Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915), <a name="_Hlk532410002">section 11(2) </a>and submitted that per the statutory provision, the plaintiff/applicant ought to have endorsed his Tax Identification Number (TIN) on the writ of summons, statement of claim as well the processes relating to the instant motion on notice. He submitted that the applicant’s noncompliance with section 11(2) supra makes the processes filed so far void and invited the court to set them aside. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quo