RAPHAEL CUBAGEE vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL AND 3 OTHERS JACOB AGONGO [2019]DLCA6918

Date	2019-07-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/39/20 19
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA6918

MARIAMA OWUSU J.A. (PRESIDING)

DZAMEFE J. A.

WELBOURNE (MRS) J. A.

[2019]DLCA6918
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >RAPHAEL CUBAGEE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND 3 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>JACOB AGONGO<o:p></o:p>(CLAIMANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. H1/39/20 19
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</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MARIAMA
OWUSU J.A. (PRESIDING), DZAMEFE J. A., WELBOURNE (MRS) J. A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>WELBOURNE, JA<o:p></o:p>This instant
action is an appeal against the ruling or decision of the High Court Sunyani,
delivered on the 5th day of
November, 2018.<o:p></o:p>By the said
ruling, the learned trial Judge stated as follows:-<o:p></o:p>“In
view of the fact that the affidavit ought to have been commissioned by the
Registrar and which was not done, I will take it that it was a mistake from the
Registry especially taking into account that the Registrar subsequently
commissioned Plaintiff’s copy. In the circumstance I will accept the affidavit
and hold that it is hereby regularized. I do so taking into account that no
useful purposes will be served if it is struck out only for the Claimant to
come back, which will only work to further delay the hearing of the matter. The
order for the Claimant to file the Writ stands.”<o:p></o:p>Aggrieved by this
ruling the Plaintiff has appealed to this Honourable Court on the grounds set
out below:<o:p></o:p>GROUNDS OF APPEAL<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the Claimant and his lawyer, Charles Bawaduah
Esq. did not address the court or moved the court in respect of the
un-commissioned affidavits of interest filed on the 19th April,
2018.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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The Plaintiff argued in his Affidavit in Opposition
and moved the court on the 5th of November 2018 that Order 20 of the
High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I. 47) Sub rule 2 and 14 talks
about commissioning of Affidavit and Certificate of Identification which the
Claimant, Jacob Agongo did not comply and I pray to the court to dismiss their
Affidavit of Interest but surprisingly the Judge refused my prayer and suo muto regularized the un-commissioned
Affidavit of Interest and Certificate of Identification.<o:p></o:p>