The Accra High Court has granted lawyers of Vehicle Embossment Association of Ghana’s plea to serve hearing notice to Original Manufacturing & Embossment Company Ltd, the second defendants in the suit against the DVLA.
The plaintiffs (VEMAG) are seeking to restrain DVLA from rolling out a digital or any new vehicle number plate registration system without their participation.
Despite being joined to the suit, Original Manufacturing & Embossment Company, the single party contracted by DVLA for their new registration system, failed to show up in court on Friday for the case.
When the case was called, Marcellinus Biah, holding the brief of Martin Kpebu, Counsel for the Vehicle Embossment Association indicated to the court that they had served processes on the second defendants on January 26 and prayed the court for a short adjournment to serve them with a hearing notice since they were absent.
Justice Isaac Addo granted the plea and adjourned the case to February 13 to allow the plaintiffs to serve the hearing notice.
Background
The Vehicle Embossment Association of Ghana and others are challenging the DVLA’s decision to exclude them from the introduction of a new vehicle number plate embossment system.
They argue in their suit that the implementation of the system and the processes leading to its rollout affected their operations and loss of jobs by members of the association.
However, DVLA maintains that they did not err in the introduction of new number plate system since it is within the company’s statutory mandate, adding that it will ultimately enhance operations.
By Laud Adu-Asare
