THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION 6), ACCRA (RESPONDENT) EXPARTE: NOWFILL S. LABA (APPLICANT) WISSAM LABA, LOUIS KHATER ABI HABIB KHATER AND LATEX FOAM RUBBER PRODUCTS LTD [2019]DLSC6499

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION 6), ACCRA (RESPONDENT) EXPARTE:... [2019]DLSC6499

Date	2019-06-19
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/14/2019
Citation No.	[2019]DLSC6499

DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING)

BENIN JSC

PWAMANG JSC

DORDZIE (MRS) JSC

AMEGATCHER JSC

SAMUEL ADU BOAHEN WITH HIM EUNAS ESHUN FOR THE APPLICANT

AUGUSTINE KUDICIL WITH HIM PAA KWAME LARBI FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND INTERESTED PARTIES

[2019]DLSC6499
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE
REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>HIGH
COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION 6), ACCRA<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EXPARTE:
NOWFILL S. LABA<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>WISSAM
LABA, LOUIS KHATER ABI HABIB KHATER AND LATEX FOAM RUBBER PRODUCTS LTD<o:p></o:p>(INTERESTED
PARTIES)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MOTION NO. J5/14/2019 &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;DATE: 19TH JUNE, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>SAMUEL ADU BOAHEN WITH HIM EUNAS ESHUN FOR THE
APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AUGUSTINE KUDICIL WITH HIM PAA KWAME LARBI FOR THE
1ST AND 2ND INTERESTED PARTIES.<o:p></o:p>

DOTSE
JSC (PRESIDING), BENIN JSC, PWAMANG JSC, DORDZIE (MRS) JSC, AMEGATCHER JSC<o:p></o:p>

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</div>DOTSE, JSC:-<o:p></o:p>PROLOGUE<o:p></o:p>This is a
Ruling, premised on an application at the instance of Nowfill Solomon Laba, the
Applicant herein, seeking an order of Certiorari to quash the orders of the
High Court, (Commercial Division 6) dated 27th June 2018 and 2nd
November 2018 respectively presided over by Noble-Nkrumah J and also to
prohibit the said Judge from hearing suit, No. Misc 0032/2018, pending before
the said court.<o:p></o:p>Even
though the application in substance is against all three Interested Parties
named herein, it is only 1st and 2nd Interested Parties,
Wissam Laba and Louis Khater Abi Habib Khater who have filed and sworn to
affidavits in opposition.<o:p></o:p>The 3rd
Interested Party, Latex Foam Rubber Products Limited, the corporate entity
founded by the Applicant, and the deceased father of the 1st
Interested Party and brother of the Applicant, (and is the reason why the
Applicant and Nephew are in court) has for very good reasons in our opinion
stayed clear of the ensuing legal quagmire that has engulfed the 3rd
Interested Party’s business operations for the past couple of years.<o:p></o:p>CAPACITY OF APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>In
paragraph 4, of the 55 paragraphed affidavit in support of this application,
sworn to by the Applicant on 29th November 2018 he deposed to as
follows:-<o:p></o:p>“That I am
one of the two founders of Latex Foam Rubber Products Limited, (“3rd
Interested Party” or the Company”) the Managing Director and a holder of 50% of
the issued shares of the company”. Emphasis <o:p></o:p>FACTS<o:p></o:p>On the 8th of March 2018, the Applicant
herein, therein as the Plaintiff commenced an action in the High Court, Accra
by an Originating Motion&nbsp; seeking
cancellation of certain&nbsp; resolutions
passed and or taken by Respondents therein, herein Interested Parties, &nbsp;in respect of the Latex Foam Company and
claimed specific reliefs against the named Respondents therein in Suit No.
MISC. 0032/2018.<o:p></o:p>In order to lay bare the facts from the genes</main>