IN THE GAMBIA COURT OF APPEAL
IN THE GAMBIA COURT OF APPEAL
IN THE GAMBIA COURT OF APPEAL
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2. Whether the fact that the Defendant “vehemently denied that it entered<br />
into the agreements with the Plaintiff” precluded the court from examining<br />
the issues set out in paragraph 2.2 as having been admitted by the<br />
Defendant and therefore needed no proof;<br />
3. Whether the Learned Trial Judge was right when she held that the true<br />
parties to the contract could only be determined from the content of the<br />
agreement;<br />
4. Whether the Learned Judge was right to hold that without the written<br />
agreements it had no evidence before it to help it determine the issues<br />
raised from the pleadings;<br />
5. Whether the Plaintiff is not entitled to its claim on a balance of<br />
probabilities.<br />
The Appellant also filed a reply on points of law, filed on the 23 rd of March,<br />
2010.<br />
For their part, the Respondent filed Respondents brief of argument on the 6 th of<br />
February, 2010. I notice that Respondent formulated no issues for<br />
determination in their brief. However, Learned Counsel for the Respondents,<br />
Ms. Ida D Drameh, argued replicando the issues raised in the Appellants brief.<br />
I have carefully considered the issues raised by the Appellant, in Appellants brief<br />
and argued by the Respondents in Respondents brief and I find that in as much<br />
as these issues address the grounds of appeal they are however largely<br />
internover. I thus prefer to adopt issue one and two in the Appellants brief,<br />
however I prefer to formulate a third issue to wit “whether the Appellants Case<br />
at the Lower Court could have succeeded without the two written agreements<br />
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