CECILIA ABA QUAINOO (M.R.S.) vs. GLORIA HANOO AND EDWIN BOATENG [2023]DLHC17135

Date	2023-01-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO: E12/342023
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC17135

HER LADYSHIP MALIKE AWO WOANYAH DEY

J.E.K. ABAKAH FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT ROLAND

A.K. HAMILTON FOR THE DEFENDANT

[2023]DLHC17135
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk153451015"></a><a name="_Hlk152146143"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">CECILIA ABA QUAINOO (M.R.S.)<o:p></o:p></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">GLORIA HANOO AND EDWIN
BOATENG<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;
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COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">SUIT NO: E12/342023&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: 11TH
JANUARY 2023<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">J.E.K.
ABAKAH FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT ROLAND <o:p></o:p>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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HAMILTON FOR THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>

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<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP MALIKE AWO WOANYAH DEY<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 0cm;">

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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;This ruling is in respect
of an application filed by counsel for the defendants, hereinafter known
as the applicant, praying the court to set aside the writ of summons filed by the plaintiff,
hereinafter called the respondent and for any further orders as the court deems
fit.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Per the affidavit attached
to the motion paper, the applicant informs the court that though the
respondent's writ is seeking to set aside a judgment of the High Court, it has other reliefs attached
to it, which amounts to re-litigating the case, which had<o:p></o:p>already been determined. He stated that the writ is highly
irregular, a nullity
and sins against statute, and
unknown to all rules of practice and procedure. He also submits that the writ
is an abuse of the court process and must be dismissed.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In his submission before
the court, counsel for the applicant argued that the case travelled from the
High Court to the Court of Appeal, but the respondent's father, who instituted
the action and lost, did not appeal the decision. He further submitted that the writ failed
to properly evoke the jurisdiction of the court because, per<sp</main>