TORKORNOO (MRS), J.A.
Three cases were consolidated into one suit and adjudged. On 7th December 2009, Emmanuel Atsiafu, Ernest Korang Yeboah, Fred Sarbah, Ebenezer Mills and Andrew Hayford (for the purposes of clarity in this judgment, hereinafter referred to as 1st to 5th Respondents respectively), jointly commenced an action against Newmont Ghana Gold, the Appellant. On 15th December 2009, Alex Onumah Coleman and David Koomson (hereinafter referred to as 6th and 7th Respondents) commenced a second suit against the Appellant. On 8th January 2010, Isaac Kongetey, Isaac Boadu and David Awelgiyah (Kongetey and Boadu are hereinafter referred to as 8th and 9th Respondents) started the third action against the Appellant. The trial high court heard the cases together.
The final claims that the court had to adjudicate for the nine Respondents were essentially the same. They comprised a claim for a declaration that their purported interdiction and subsequent dismissal of the Plaintiffs from the…