ECOBANK GH LTD vs. AKAIDOO ENT LTD AND T. T. U TAY DEVELOPERS LTD AND GHANA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION AND FIFA [2022]DLHC11758

ECOBANK GH LTD vs. AKAIDOO ENT LTD AND T. T. U TAY DEVELOPERS LTD AND GHANA FO... [2022]DLHC11758

Date	2022-06-27
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BFS/128/2006
Citation No.	[2022]DLHC11758

HIS LORDSHIP FRANCIS OBIRI

MOSES FOH-AMOANING FOR THE APPLICANT

DANIYAL ABDUL-KARIM FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2022]DLHC11758
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ECOBANK GH
LTD<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AKAIDOO ENT
LTD AND T. T. U TAY DEVELOPERS LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p>GHANA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION AND FIFA<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;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>MOSES FOH-AMOANING FOR THE APPLICANT<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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THE RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP FRANCIS OBIRI<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>On 18th
November 2020, the Third Party/ Judgment Creditor/Appellant/Applicant
(hereinafter referred to as the Applicant) filed motion on notice before this
court.&nbsp; The motion is seeking an order to
Stay Execution of the order of this court dated 30th October, 2020
granting an order of mandatory injunction and other ancillary reliefs upon the
grounds contained in the affidavit in support.<o:p></o:p>The
Applicant’s counsel attached exhibits to the application.<o:p></o:p>I
wish to make this comment from the onset. &nbsp;The heading of the motion asked for two reliefs,
namely:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order to set aside the order of this court dated 30th
October, 2020 which granted an order of mandatory injunction and other reliefs
or<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order to Stay Execution of the order dated 30th
October, 2020 granting an order of mandatory injunction.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>However,
in the body of the motion paper, the Applicant prayed only for an order to stay
execution of the order of this court dated 30th October, 2020.<o:p></o:p>The
effects of the two reliefs are not the same.&nbsp;
If an order is set aside, then it will cease to exist. However, if the
execution of an order is stayed, it will prevent the successful party from
enforcing it.&nbsp; But the order will persist
or be alive and valid.&nbsp; In an application
before a court, it is the body of the motion which is fundamental and not the
heading.<o:p></o:p>See: ASAMOAH v MARFO [2011] 2 SCGLR 832<o:p></o:p>This
means, counsel for the Applicant abandoned his prayer on the relief praying the
court to set aside the two rulings dated 30th October, 2020 in his
motion paper. However, in the last paragraph of the affidavit in support of the
application filed on 18th November 2020, the deponent to the
affidavit concluded by repeating the two reliefs.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>