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F.G. KORBIEH, J.A.
We deem it absolutely necessary to preface this judge with the following comments. This appeal was heard on the 24/7/2018 and adjourned to last week for judgment. It was for unavoidable reasons that we could not sit last week and therefore had to adjourn the delivery of the judgment to today. It was noted by the panel at the hearing of the appeal that only the appellant had filed its written submissions and that the said written submissions had been duly served on the respondents through counsel for the respondents. Since the respondents had failed to file an Answer within the stipulated time as prescribed by the Rules of Court, we proceeded to hear the appeal and accordingly adjourned it for judgment. Only a week or so to the return date for judgment, we received copies of the respondents’ written submissions filed purportedly on the basis of leave granted by a panel of the Court of Appeal (differently constituted) which had heard an application for leave for extens…