[2020]DLHC8909 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">ABDUL MALIK KWAKU BAAKO<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;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="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">KENNEDY OHENE AGYAPONG<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(</span></i><span class="NoSpacingChar"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DEFENDANT</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[<span class="NoSpacingChar">HIGH COURT (</span>FINANCIAL & ECONOMIC CRIME DIVISION 2<span class="NoSpacingChar">)</span>, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">SUIT NO. GJ/51/201</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">9 </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> DATE: 26<sup>TH</sup> JUNE, 2020<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">MR. DENNIS AGYEI DWOMOH FOR THE PLAINTIFF PRESENT WITH NANA AGYEMANG<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>ABU-BONSRA<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">MR. RAPHAEL AGYAPONG FOR THE DEFENDANT PRESENT WITH MR. KINGSLEY AMOAKWA BOADU<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;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><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:8.95pt"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:3.55pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 1.1pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAH ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:8.9pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This case commenced with the issuance of a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim on the 16<span style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise:3.0pt">th </span>of October, 2018 in which were endorsed the following reliefs;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:4.4pt;margin-right:8.95pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:88.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l6 level1 lfo19;tab-stops:88.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-font-width:99%">a.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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">A declaration that the statements made by the Defendant in both Twi and English Language which is fully transcribed in English indorsed on the writ of summons by way of an attachment and particularized on the attachment with the list media platforms and publication dates and also repeated in paragraphs 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 22 of the Statement of Claim are<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>defamatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.5pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:8.85pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:88.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l6 level1 lfo19;tab-stops:88.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-font-width:99%">b.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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">An order of the Court directed at the Defendant to publish on three consecutive occasions, on the same platform that he published the defamatory words, an unqualified retraction and an apology, with the same prominence as given to the issuance of the defamatory words against the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>plaintiff.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:9.15pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:88.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo19; tab-stops:88.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:13.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-font-width:99%">c.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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">An order of the Court for perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, assigns and servants from further publishing any defamatory words against the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:8.9pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:88.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo19; tab-stops:88.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:13.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-font-width:99%">d.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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">General Damages for the sum of Twenty-Five Million Ghana Cedis (GH¢25,000,000) Ghana Cedis for<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>defamation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.55pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:9.4pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:88.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo19; tab-stops:88.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:13.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-font-width:99%">e.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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">Exemplary Damages for malicious conduct of the Defendant in defaming the<span style=