[2023]DLHC16967 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 244.5pt left 298.5pt"><span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">PETER NKRUMAH ADASAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">CHIRANO GOLD MINES LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, SEFWI WIAWSO]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 168.75pt 278.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO.:E12/16/2017 DATE: 18<sup>TH</sup> APRIL 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 96.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">EMMANUEL ARTHUR FOR NANA SEKYERE BOATENG FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">PHILIP OBENG NYARKO FOR KIMATHI KUENYEHIA FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 129.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWAME AMOAKO <o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;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"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:1.05pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Per the Amended Writ of Summons filed on 22<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">nd<span style="letter-spacing:1.75pt"> </span></span>June 2017, the Plaintiff claims against the Defendant and four others jointly and severally as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.55pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10; tab-stops:7.1pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%">a)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> A declaration that the 1<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>Defendant is vicariously liable for acts of the 2<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt; mso-text-raise:3.5pt">nd<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>Defendant in the course of the 2<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt">nd<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>Defendant performing his duties as an employee/servant of the 1<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span></span>Defendant and the 4<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span></span>Defendant is vicariously liable for torts<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>committed by the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>3<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">rd<span style="letter-spacing:1.3pt"> </span></span>Defendant whenever the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>3<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">rd<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span></span>Defendant acts<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>arise or omissions out of or in the cause of his employment with the Ghana Police<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Service.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.9pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10; tab-stops:39.1pt 43.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%">b)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">A declaration that the arrest and prosecution of the Plaintiff by the 3<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt">rd<span style="letter-spacing:1.8pt"> </span></span>Defendant on the order/instruction or complain from the 1<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>and 2<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">nd<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>Defendants was wrongful, ill motivated, capricious, unreasonable, out of resentment and <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">malicious.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:7.05pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10; tab-stops:43.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%">c)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-posi