FINE PRINT vs LAIMIA COBBINA & 3 ORS [2023]DLHC16710

Date	2023-11-07
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BDC/46/2014
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16710

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI

JULIUS OPOKU AGYEI

MERCY CLOTTEY

LILIAN ADOMBIRE

[2023]DLHC16710
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">FINE
PRINT<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">LAIMIA
COBBINA &amp; 3 ORS<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">SUIT NO.
BDC/46/2014&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:
7TH NOVEMBER, 2023<o:p></o:p>

</div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">CORAM<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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-US">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI<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;">

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</div>&nbsp;I have listened to the submission by the
Plaintiff’s counsel, praying the court to close the Defendants case. The
Defendants last and only witness was discharged by the court on 22nd
June, 2023. The case has since been adjourned about three times for the
Defendants to produce their next witness if any, but they have failed to
produce any other witness apart from DW1.<o:p></o:p>The Defendants have called one witness in this
case. However, the law is settled, that a party can win his case based on the quality
of evidence led in the case by his witness or witnesses and not the quantity of
the witnesses called. The evidence of a single witness if credible and reliable
is sufficient to prove an issue in dispute. After all, witnesses are weighted and not
counted.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Therefore, a
party does not prove his case by multiplicity of witnesses called but by the
quality or credible or reliable evidence led at the trial by himself or by his
witness.<o:p></o:p>See: GHANA PORTS AND HARBOURS AUTHORITY &amp; CAPTAIN
ZIEM V NOVA COMPLEX [2007-2008] SCGLR 806<o:p></o:p>MUZAMA DISCO CHRISTO
CHURCH V JEHU APPIAH [2010] 27 MLRG 56 CA<o:p></o:p>ADOM V NTOW [1992-1993]
4 GBR 1603 CA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;FRIMPONG ALIAS IBOMAN V THE REPUBLIC [2012] 1
SCGLR 297<o:p></o:p>KRU V SAOUD BROS &amp;
SONS [1975] 1 GLR 46 CA<o:p></o:p>GLIGAH AND ATISO v
THE REPUBLIC [2010] SCGLR 870<o:p></o:p><p</main>