HIGH TRUST GHANA LTD. vs. ACCRA METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY [2020]DLHC10274

Date	2020-01-21
Suit No.	SUIT NO. GJ/810/2018
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10274

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS (MRS).

BANK OF GHANA REPRESENTED BY NATHANIEL BEKOE

MR. JUSTICE ABDULAI WITH ANGELA QUARDE

COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT CREDITOR PRESENT

SAVIOUR QUARCOO KUDZE FOR GARNISHEE APPLICANT (BOG) PRESENT

[2020]DLHC10274
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >HIGH
TRUST GHANA LTD.<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ACCRA
METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;
mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. GJ/810/2018&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;DATE: 21ST
JANUARY 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>BANK OF GHANA
REPRESENTED BY NATHANIEL BEKOE<o:p></o:p>MR. JUSTICE
ABDULAI WITH ANGELA QUARDE, COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT CREDITOR PRESENT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SAVIOUR
QUARCOO KUDZE FOR GARNISHEE APPLICANT (BOG) PRESENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS
(MRS).<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">RULING ON MOTION FOR AN ORDER TO
SET ASIDE ASPECTS OF THE ORDER OF THE COURT DATED 18TH NOVEMBER,
2019<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This application is a request by
the garnishee applicant (the Bank of Ghana) for an order to set aside aspects
of this Court’s order dated the 18th of November, 2019.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In that order dated the 18th
of November, 2019, this Court ordered the applicant herein to reverse two debit
entries that had been made on Account No 108431479133 belonging to the
defendant/judgment debtor and which account is domiciled at the Bank of Ghana.
The said two debit entries involved two different amounts namely GH<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ȼ<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US">805,573.01 and GH<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ȼ<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US">5,000.00 and the Court ordered the applicant to pay
the said amounts to the plaintiff/judgment creditor. In addition, the Court
also made an order that an amount of GH<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ȼ<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US">5,248.50 which was in the account of the
defendant/judgment debtor should be paid to the plaintiff/judgment creditor.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In this present application the
applicant is saying that the order of the Court that the two debit entries of
GH<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ȼ<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">805,573.01 and GH5,000.00 should
be reversed and the amounts paid to the plaintiff/judgment creditor is
impossible to be complied with because the funds involved have already been
paid out and that at the time the money was paid out the applicant was not in a
position to&nbsp; have reserved the funds for
the benefit of the plaintiff/judgment creditor because the garnishee order nisi
that was served on the applicant on the 18th of February, 2019 did
not state the amount of the indebtedness of the defendant to the plaintiff as
required by the rules of the Court.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Court has perused the motion
paper and supporting affidavit and all annexures or exhibits attached to the
affidavit and has also considered the affidavit in opposition filed by the
plaintiff/judgment creditor with all its attached exhibits. The </main>