[2022]DLSC11436 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:204%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:204%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">THE<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:204%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:204%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0;letter-spacing:-.2pt">vs.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:204%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:205%;tab-stops:295.05pt 298.5pt 334.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">HIGH COURT (CRIMINAL DIVISION 9), ACCRA<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:205%;tab-stops:295.05pt 298.5pt 334.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt">(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:205%;tab-stops:295.05pt 298.5pt 334.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">EXPARTE: ECOBANK GHANA LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:205%;tab-stops:295.05pt 298.5pt 334.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt">(APPLICANT)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:205%;tab-stops:295.05pt 298.5pt 334.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:205%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">ORIGIN<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>8<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> LIMITED</span> AND GREATER<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>ACCRA<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>PASSENGER<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">TRANSPORT</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">EXECUTIVE</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:14.35pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops:25.05pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">(INTERESTED<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">PARTIES/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:155%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.05pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CIVIL MOTION NO.<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>J5/10/2022 DATE: 18<span style="position:relative;top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">TH<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span></span>JANUARY,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">COUNSEL:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">KERVIN<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>TETTEY<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ASHONG<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ESQ.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>LED<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>BY<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>JUSTICE<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>KUSI-MINKAH<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>PREMO<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ESQ.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>FOR<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>THE <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">APPLICANT.</span><o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.05pt;"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">ANDREW<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>NII<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ADJEI<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>KHARTEY<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>FOR<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>THE<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>1<span style="position:relative; top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">ST<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt"> </span></span>INTERESTED<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">PARTY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:154.4pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">CORAM:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:154.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">YEBOAH<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>CJ<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">(PRESIDING)</span>, PWAMANG JSC, OWUSU<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>(MS.)<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>JSC, HONYENUGA JSC, AMADU JSC<o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.05pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt">RULING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PWAMANG<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">JSC:-</span></span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:.05pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.05pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">My Lords, on the 18<span style="position:relative;top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>January, 2022, we unanimously granted the prayers of the applicant in this motion but reserved the reasons. We now proceed to give our reasons for<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>decision.<span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt"> </span>This<span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span>application<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>invoking<span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt"> </span>our<span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>supervisory<span style="letter-spacing:2.05pt"> </span>jurisdiction<span style="letter-spacing: 2.05pt"> </span>over<span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">the </span>High Court (Commercial Division 9), Accra, in relation to its ruling declining jurisdiction in a motion praying for the suspension of a garnishee order absolute and stay of garnishee proceedings pending appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:8.0pt;margin-right:.05pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">There is pending before the High Court proceedings of execution of its judgment for payment of money. Following the grant of garnishee orders nisi against two banks, the court made an order absolute against the applicant alone for payment of the whole of the judgment debt to the judgment creditor/interested party. Being aggrieved by the order, the applicant lodged an appeal against it in the Court of Appeal. After initially applying to the Court of Appeal for stay of execution of the order pending the appeal and meeting a refusal, the applicant returned to the High Court and prayed it to suspend the order and stay the proceedings of execution pending the determination of the appeal under its inherent jurisdiction. But counsel for the judgment creditor took objection to the hearing of the application by the High Court arguing, that the power of the High Court to stay execution of its judgment or order that has been appealed against has been taken away by the <b>Court of Appeal (Amendment) Rules, 2020 (C.I.132)</b>. In her ruling dated 3<span style="position:relative;top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">rd<span style="letter-