[2023]DLHC17188 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">IZONE GHANA LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">MR. GEORGE APPIAH KUBI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; 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""> </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: 4.5pt; 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 CM/BDC/0383/2019 DATE: 20<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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: 4.5pt; 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 KOFI DARKO 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"">EDWIN KUSI APPIAH FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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 JUSTIN KOFI DORGU<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: 4.5pt; 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-top:0cm;margin-right:7.85pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On or about the 4<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span></span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>February, 2019, the Plaintiff herein, a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Ghana to engage in the business of selling, marketing and distribution of MTN products and services throughout the Greater Accra Region took out the instant writ against the Defendant, a Ghanaian businessman, trading under the name and style of Giant Media Enterprise for the following reliefs;-<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:7.75pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“(a)<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>An<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>directing<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>Defendant<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>pay<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>outstanding<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>debt<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>GH¢ 100,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>130.76<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>alternative,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>order for<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>enforcement<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of the<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt"> </span>Deed<span style="letter-spacing:3.7pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">of</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Assignment<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>entered<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>into<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>27<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt"> </span></span>February,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">2018</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin: 0cm 125.9pt 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -31.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;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">Interest<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>GH¢100,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>130.76<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>2014<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>date<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>final payment at the prevailing commercial rate<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -31.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;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">Cost<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>costs<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">litigation</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -26.95pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-heig