Kwabena Badu, a 17-year old second year Accounting student at UPSA entered into an agreement with Paul Adom, for the rental of Paul’s 3 storey building at East Legon for use as office space for his business at a cost of GHc10,000. In order to complete his final exams successfully, Kwabena also procures Accounting textbooks from Cephas at a price of GHc5000. Kwabena has failed to pay Paul the amount for the rent and has only paid GHc2000 for the books he bought from Cephas. Paul and Cephas have come to seek your advice as to whether or not they can institute legal action against Kwabena Badu. With the aid of decided cases, discuss the legal issues involved.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

First of all , let us split the two cases given above.

The first case given above explains that Kwabena had an agreement with Paul for to rent a 3 storeyed building and given that Paul fails to pay the rent. And te second case is Kwabena purchased a book for 5000 & paid only 2000.

We were asked to suggest whether Paul & cephas can take legal action against Kwabena.

Answer: Paul & cephascannot take legal action against Kwabena. beacuse as we could see in te question the student stuudies in UPSA which is in Accra , Ghanna & also the East legon is in Ghanna. So, as per the Contract act, 1960 which is used in Ghanna.

The contract act states that any contract entered in to with a Minor is a void. And the minor is not binding the contract. He cannot be sued. So no legal action can be taken against him.

So, since Kwabena is only 17 years old, he is a minor- Paul & Cephas cannot take legal action against him.