ASOMDWEE GROUP LIMITED TEMA vs. AIRLAND COMPANY LIMITED, CHAO EHENG, SHA WANG AND DELI YIN [2020]DLHC8943

ASOMDWEE GROUP LIMITED TEMA vs. AIRLAND COMPANY LIMITED, CHAO EHENG, SHA WANG A... [2020]DLHC8943

Date	2020-01-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO. GJ 0255/2020
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC8943

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER A. DADZIE

LEONARD KWOWO SEDZRO ESQ. OF GYINAYE CHAMBERS AHUDWO KETEWA NSAWAM

COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

WEIGIANG YANG ESQ. OF NOON ASSOCIATES TEMA

COUNSEL FOR 2ND DEFENDANT/APPLICANT

[2020]DLHC8943
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ASOMDWEE GROUP LIMITED TEMA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AIRLAND COMPANY LIMITED, CHAO EHENG, SHA
WANG AND DELI YIN<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS)<o:p></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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NO. GJ 0255/2020&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 14TH JANUARY,
2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>LEONARD KWOWO
SEDZRO, ESQ., OF GYINAYE CHAMBERS, AHUDWO KETEWA, NSAWAM, COUNSEL FOR
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ASSOCIATES, TEMA, COUNSEL FOR 2ND DEFENDANT/APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP, JUSTICE JENNIFER A. DADZIE<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>Order
5 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I. 47) provides
in pertinent part that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 36pt; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No proceedings shall be defeated by reason
of misjoinder or non-joinder of any party; and the Court may in any proceeding
determine the issues or questions in dispute so far as they affect the rights
and interests of the persons who are parties to the proceedings.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 36pt 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At any stage of
proceedings the Court may on such terms as it thinks just either of its own
motion or on application<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 36pt 0.0001pt 126pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -27pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
order any person who has been improperly or unnecessarily made a
party or who for any reason is no longer a party or a necessary party to cease
to be a party;”<o:p></o:p>The
Applicant, 2nd Defendant herein, by way of this present application,
has invoked these rules and the powers of the court arising from its inherent
jurisdiction to seek an order striking out his name from the suit as a
party.&nbsp; He grounds his application on
reasons set out in his affidavit in support, which he deposed to personally.&nbsp; The main ground on which he basis his
application is that the instant action arises from a tenancy agreement signed
between the Plaintiff and the 1st Defendant, a limited liability
company incorporated in Ghana and no specific allegations of liability having
been raised against him in his personal capacity, he is not a proper or
necessary party to the suit.<o:p></o:p>The
Respondent is opposed to the application as observed from the averments
contained in the affidavit in opposition to the application deposed to on its
behalf by its Managing Director, one Franklyn Agyemang.&nbsp; From my understanding of the averments
contained in this affidavit in opposition, it is the claim of the Respondent
that it rented out its premises, a warehouse, to the 1st Defendant, whose
directors, including the 2nd Defendant/Applicant are all foreign
nationals of Chinese origin.&nbsp; Subsequently,
a fire outbreak gutted down the warehouse and rather than cooperate with the
Respondent to resolve issues arising from this fire incidence, the 2nd
Defendant/Applicant and the other directors of the 1st Defendant Company
have gone into hiding and refuse to cooperate with the Respondent, evincing a
clear intention to evade justice and accountability, culminating in the
issuance of the present writ of summons against them.&nbsp; The Respondent further asserts that in the
interest of justice and to ensure that all matters in controversy are
effectively and completely determined, the application to misjoin the 2nd
Defendant should be dismissed.<o:p></o:p>It may be prudent to pause here and state
that the Respondent claims against the Defendants, jointly and severally, the
following reliefs as endorsed on its writ of summons and the accompanying
statement of claim:<o:p></o:p>