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ATUGUBA & ASSOCIATES
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SCIPION CAPITAL (UK) LTD AND HOLMAN FENWICK WILLIAN LLP

(2019) JELR 67464 (SC)

Supreme Court 3 Apr 2019 Ghana
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- The case is an appeal concerning a dispute over legal fees between a Ghanaian law firm (appellant) and a UK-based limited liability partnership (respondent). - The appellant represented a third party (1st defendant) in civil suits in Gha

Case Details

Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/04/2019
Judges:DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING), BENIN JSC, PWAMANG JSC, AMEGATCHER JSC, KOTEY JSC
Counsel:HAROLD ATUGUBA FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT; GOLDA DENYO FOR THE 2 ND DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.

JUDGMENT

AMEGATCHER, JSC

This appeal has travelled all the way to the highest court of the land when the substantive matter has been comatose for the past two years at the trial court adding to the backlog of cases awaiting trial. What is before us, therefore, is an interlocutory appeal from a ruling of the High Court to the Court of Appeal and then to this court.

The facts of this appeal do not admit of any controversy. The business operations of the respondent and the 1st defendant are in the United Kingdom. The appellant is a law firm in Ghana registered by the General Legal Council offering legal services to the public. Sometime in 2014, the respondent, also a limited liability partnership registered in the United Kingdom and offering legal services, engaged the services of the appellant to act for the 1st defendant in civil suits brought against it in the High Court in Ghana. After several correspondence, the appellant agreed to offer the legal services to the 1st defendant at agree…

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