<p class="ql-align-center"><strong><u><span style="background-color: transparent">RULING</span></u></strong></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">In this application, 1 and 2 Defendants (hereinafter called Applicants) are praying the court to dismiss the suit against them as same is an abuse of the court process.</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">Order 11 Rule 18 (1) (d) of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, CI 47 provides:</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">“1) The Court may at any stage of the proceedings order any pleading or anything in any pleading to be struck out on the grounds that </span><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">(d) it is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court</span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">, and may order the action to be stayed or dismissed or judgment to be entered accordingly.”</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">The Black’s Law Dictionary 9th edition defines abuse of court process as:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent">“The improper and tortuous use of a legitimately issued court process to obtain a result that is either unlawful or beyond the process’s scope”</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">The doctrine of abuse of process, commonly referred to as the rule in </span><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">Henderson v. Henderson (1843) 3 Hare 100</span></em></strong><span style="background-color: transparent"> whose essence was set out by the English Court of Appeal in </span><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">Barrow v. Bankside Agency Ltd [1996] WLR 257 at 260</span></em></strong><span style="background-color: transparent"> as follows:</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">“Th…</span></p>