THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL COURT 8) ACCRA EX PARTE: DR. SAMUEL ANNOR , TRASACCO ESTATES DEVELOPMENT LTD AND INDEPENDENCE PROPERTIES LTD. [2022]DLSC16162

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL COURT 8) ACCRA EX PARTE: DR. SAMUEL ANN... [2022]DLSC16162

Date	2022-12-14
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/56/2022
Citation No.	[2022]DLSC16162

DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING)

OWUSU (MS.) JSC

LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC

PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

KULENDI JSC

DANSO AMOAH FOR THE APPLICANT

ERNEST KUSI WITH HIM OSEI TUTU BONSU FOR THE 1ST INTERESTED PARTY

ALFRED PAAPA DARKWA WITH HIM KATHLYN BOTCHWAY FOR THE 2ND INTERESTED PARTY

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" > THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL COURT 8), ACCRA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT) <o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: DR.
SAMUEL ANNOR<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>TRASACCO ESTATES
DEVELOPMENT LTD AND INDEPENDENCE PROPERTIES LTD.<o:p></o:p>(INTERESTED/PARTIES)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME
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;">

CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/56/2022&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 DECEMBER 2022<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL <o:p></o:p>DANSO AMOAH FOR THE APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>ERNEST KUSI WITH HIM OSEI TUTU BONSU FOR THE 1ST INTERESTED
PARTY<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
normal;tab-stops:82.3pt;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">ALFRED PAAPA DARKWA WITH HIM KATHLYN
BOTCHWAY FOR THE 2ND INTERESTED PARTY<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>DOTSE
JSC (PRESIDING), OWUSU (MS.) JSC, LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC, PROF. MENSA-BONSU
(MRS.) JSC, KULENDI JSC &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center;
line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">&nbsp;

</div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">DOTSE JSC:-<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">FACTS<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The brief facts of this
matter are as follows:-<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">On
the 3rd day of August, 2021, Trasacco Estates Development Company
Limited (hereinafter called “the Plaintiff”) issued a writ No. CM/RPC/0840/21 against Independence Properties Limited
(hereinafter called “the Defendant”) claiming a liquidated sum totaling about
$19.6 million.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It
was the Plaintiff’s case that by a Contract Agreement, (the contract) dated 9th
January 2017, the Defendant engaged it to design, complete works, and remedy
defects of a 297 key 4-star Hilton Garden Inn (the project) in a contractual
development located at Independence Avenue, Accra. <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">However,
when the money became due, the Defendant refused or neglected to settle the
amounts outstanding, thereby causing serious</main>