A.J. FANJ CONSTRUCTION & INDUSTRIAL& ENGINEERING LIMITED vs . GHACEM LIMITED [2019]DLHC6893

Date	2019-04-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CM/BDC/0343/2019
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC6893

ERIC K. BAFFOUR ESQ. J

[2019]DLHC6893
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">A.J. FANJ
CONSTRUCTION &amp; INDUSTRIAL&amp; ENGINEERING LIMITED<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs .<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">GHACEM
LIMITED<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(DEFENDANT/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;">SUITNO.CM/BDC/0343/2019&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: 16TH&nbsp;APRIL,
2019<o:p></o:p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;">RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">It is provided under Order 11 rule 18(1)(d) of the High Court
(Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004, C. I. 47 that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“The Court may
at any stage of the proceedings order any pleadings or anything in any
pleadings to be struck out on the grounds that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(d) it is
otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court”<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;And
may order the action to be stayed or dismissed or judgment to be entered
accordingly”.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Defendant/Applicant has mounted this application calling for the
dismissal of the suit upon the ground that the suit instituted by Respondent
constitutes a veritable abuse of the judicial process in so far as according to
Applicant this suit has effectively been determined and therefore was res
judicata.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The factual grounds giving rise to this application as deposed to
in the affidavit by one Morten Gade, the Managing Director of Applicant company
is that Respondent commenced arbitral proceedings against West Africa Quarries
Ltd (WAQL) pursuant to an agreement that specified resolution of dispute
between Respondent and WAQL in arbitration. Respondent in the course of the
arbitral proceedings sought for an order to join the Applicant herein, who was
not a party to the arbitration agreement, otherwise referred to as the Yongwa
Contract to the arbitration proceedings. The issue before the arbitrator upon
the application for joinder therefore was whether the Applicant herein who was
not a party to the arbitration agreement was compellable to participate in the
arbitration proceedings.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.25pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">That the arbitrator declined the application whereupon the
Respondent applied to the High Court, Commercial Division for joinder of
Applicant to the arbitration proceedings. In a Ruling delivered by my respected
brother, Asiedu J. he granted the application for the Applicant to be joined to
the arbitration proceedings. Piqued by the decision of Asiedu J. the applicant
invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court for the purpose of
quashing the decision granting the order for joinder.