TRUE COLOUR EVENTS (PLAINTIFF) vs. GLOBACOM LIMITED & OTHERS (DEFENDANTS) [2019]DLHC7149

Date	2019-04-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO: BDC/4/2015
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC7149

HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J

J.K. YEBOAH ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF.

FRANCIS K. OTOO ESQ. FOR DEFENDANTS.

[2019]DLHC7149
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >TRUE COLOUR EVENTS<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GLOBACOM LIMITED &amp;
OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION), ACCRA]<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: BDC/4/2015&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: 30TH APRIL, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>J.K. YEBOAH ESQ., FOR
PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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FRANCIS
K. OTOO ESQ., FOR DEFENDANTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A.
ASIEDU, J <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The
plaintiff is an entity domiciled in South Africa whiles the 1st and
the 2nd defendant are a limited liability company and the Chief
Executive Officer respectively and also ordinarily resident in Nigeria. The 3rd
defendant is an incorporated entity registered under the laws of Ghana and a
sister company to the 1st defendant. The plaintiff and the 1st
defendant entered into a contract under which the plaintiff was engaged to
organize four (4) events to be staged in Accra, Ghana in order to launch the 3rd
defendant, a telecommunication company onto the Ghanaian market. The 1st
defendant caused about eighty (80%) of the financial outlay to be paid to the
plaintiff to enable the organization of the events. <o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff, subsequently, shipped some equipment from South Africa to Ghana
meant for the organization of the events. These equipment were consigned to the
1st and the 3rd defendants who accordingly, took delivery
of them from the port and had them kept in a warehouse. Eventually, three out
of the four events were not organized at all, and hence, the parties entered
into accounts and certain amount of money was refunded to the 1st
defendant by the plaintiff who then asked for the release of the equipment
shipped to Ghana. The defendants refused to heed the plaintiff’s request
alleging that the plaintiff was indebted to the 1st defendant. As a
result, the plaintiff issued the instant writ of summons against the defendants
jointly and severally for: <o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order of the
Court compelling the defendants to release all the equipment that the plaintiff
brought from South Africa to Ghana and contained in the schedule in their
custody and that they are in the warehouse of the 1st defendant.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Alternatively a
declaration by the Court that the seizure and detention of the equipment
brought by the plaintiff from South Africa to Ghana is unlawful.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order of the
Court directing the defendants to pay an amount of USD4, 400.00 a day from
November 2011 to the date of final judgment to the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
USD 200, 000.00
being expenses that have been incurred by the Plaintiff such as hotel bills,
airfares, feeding and others both in Nigeria and Ghana.<o:p></o:p>e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
USD 5000,000.00
being legal fees the plaintiff has incurred in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria
from November, 2011 to the present.<o:p></o:p>