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SONIAG COMPANY LTD
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BOND FINANCIAL SAVINGS AND LOANS LTD

(2016) JELR 69500 (HC)

High Court 16 Jun 2016 Ghana
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- The plaintiff is seeking leave to file a rejoinder to the plaintiff's reply and defense to his counterclaim. - The plaintiff argues that certain particulars that should have been included in the statement of claim were not, but were later

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Suit Number:SUIT NO.CM/0050/2016
Judges:HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT
Counsel:PLAINTIFF REPRESENTED BY SONIA ANTWI; DEFENDANT REPRESENTED BY EMMANUEL NEEQUAGYE ,FELIX QUARTEY ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT; K. FREDUA–AGYEMAN DANSO ESQ. FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT.

RULING

BAFFOUR J.

By this application Plaintiff seeks for leave to file a rejoinder to the Plaintiff’s reply and defence to his counterclaim. In an affidavit in support of this application the deponent has noted that particulars that ought to have been particularized in the statement of claim was not done and was accordingly raised in the statement of defence by drawing the attention of the plaintiff to it. Subsequently in plaintiff’s reply to the statement of defence and a counter claim, plaintiff has supplied those particulars. And that with the supply of those particulars, it thinks that the nature of its defence ought to shift in answer to the particulars now provided.

Defendant has vehemently resisted the application for a number of reasons. One that the application is unwarranted by the rules of court and only a calculated attempt to enable plaintiff substitute a new defence to the statement of defence filed by him and that if particulars had not been provided, defendant could have…

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