NEWLAND AVAYEVU vs. AMA FOSUWAA [2020]DLHC10405

Date	2020-02-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: LD/1160/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10405

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH

[2020]DLHC10405
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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,
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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;DATE:
14TH
FEBRUARY, 2020<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&nbsp; 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 &nbsp;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>&nbsp;“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 pre existing 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&nbsp; 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; (SGD)<o:p></o:p>H/L. ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH<o:p></o:p>

JUSTICE OF
THE HIGH COURT&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></main>