[2023]DLHC17107 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk153451015"></a><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">FIDELIA NCHEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">ALEX DAUTEY & 2 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 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:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO: CM/RPC/0884/2019 DATE: 19<sup>TH</sup> JUNE 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">VICTOR BROBBEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF<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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">KWASI ADU-MANTE FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JUSTIN KOFI DORGU<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;"> <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;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>28<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span></span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>May,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>2019,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>herein<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>suing<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>per<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>her<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Lawful<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Attorney<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Reverend Raymond Selorm Daniels caused this Writ of Summons to issue against the Defendants herein, claiming the following;-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:49.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:46.0pt 370.05pt 444.7pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt">“(a)</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> An Order for the payment of CDN$ 200, 000 (Two Hundred<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>Thousand Canadian Dollars) by the Defendants being the sum owed <span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">by</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">the </span>Defendants to the Plaintiff according to the terms of the Promissory<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>note executed between the Parties<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Interest<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>amount<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>stated<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>relief<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>(a)<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>according<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>terms <span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">agreed</span> in the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>promissory note<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>interest<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>12%<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>per<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>annum,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>compounded semi- annually from November 1<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt; mso-text-raise:3.5pt">st</span>, 2001 to date<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:49.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:46.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; letter-spacing:-.05pt">(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">Costs<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>solicitor’s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">fees</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:49.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:46.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; letter-spacing:-.05pt">(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-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">Any<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>other<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>reliefs<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Honourable<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>deems<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">fit”.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%;tab-stops:46.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>Writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Summons<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>accompanied<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>14<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>paragraph<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Statement<span style="letter-spacing:-.4