NEWLAND AVAYEVU vs. AMA FOSUWAA [2020]DLHC10383

Date	2020-02-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: LD/1160/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10383

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH

THOMAS N. WARD-BREW FOR THE PLAINTIFF – PRESENT

SAMUEL PATRICK AKUFO FOR THE DEFENDANTS – ABSENT

[2020]DLHC10383
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NEWLAND AVAYEVU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AMA FOSUWAA<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;">

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NO.: LD/1160/2019&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; DATE:
14TH
FEBRUARY, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>THOMAS N. WARD-BREW FOR THE PLAINTIFF – PRESENT
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DEFENDANTS – ABSENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;This
is an application for interlocutory injunction filed by the Plaintiff pursuant
to an amended Writ filed on the 25th November 2019 which was duly
served on the Defendant on the 2nd December 2019.<o:p></o:p>The
Defendant has to date not filed an affidavit in opposition. The Plaintiff’s
Order 25(1) application pursuant to CI 47 was filed on the 27th
August 2019 and was based on the writ filed on the 29th August 2019.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Lord
Diplock in the case of&nbsp;Siskena 1977 3 All E.R&nbsp;at page 824 held;-<o:p></o:p>“A right to
obtain an interlocutory injunction is not a cause of action, It cannot stand on
its own. It is dependent on their being a preexisting cause of action against
the defendant arising out of an invasion, actual, or threatened by him of a
legal or equitable right of the plaintiff for the enforcement of which the
defendant is amenable to the jurisdiction of the court. The right to obtain
interlocutory injunction is merely ancillary and incidental to the pre-existing
cause of action. It is granted to preserve the status quo pending the
ascertainment&nbsp; by the court of the rights of the parties and the grant to
the plaintiff of the relief to which his cause of action entitles him which may
or may not include a final injunction.’’<o:p></o:p>As stated by Lord Diplock in the case cited above an
injunction does not stand alone and is anchored by a writ. An amended writ is
not the same as the Writ filed originally. Ergo the Plaintiff ought to have
filed another Order 25 application with its root in the amended writ.<o:p></o:p>This application therefore stands dismissed on
technical grounds<o:p></o:p>No
order as to costs. <o:p></o:p>&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;&nbsp;&nbsp; (SGD)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;H/L. ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH<o:p></o:p>

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