ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI GH. LTD. vs. MINING & BUILDING CONTRACTOR [2015]DLCA8000

Date	2015-12-17
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/201/2015
Citation No.	[2015]DLCA8000

V. D. OFOE J.A. (PRESIDING)

F. G. KORBIEH J.A.

L. L. MENSAH J.A.

ACE ANAN ANKOMAH WITH HIM KOW ESSUMAN FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

NANA ATO DADZIE FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2015]DLCA8000
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI GH. LTD.<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPLICANT/
APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>MINING &amp;
BUILDING CONTRACTOR<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/ RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[ COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/201/2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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17TH DECEMBER, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ACE ANAN ANKOMAH WITH HIM KOW ESSUMAN FOR
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NANA ATO DADZIE FOR
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT. <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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V. D. OFOE J.A.
(PRESIDING), F. G. KORBIEH J.A., L. L. MENSAH J.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>L. L. MENSAH, J.A.<o:p></o:p>The
Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent which hereafter will be referred to as
Plaintiff is a company incorporated under the laws of Ghana.&nbsp; It is engaged in the business of mining
services for the mining industry.&nbsp; It has
over the decades been in a symbiotic relationship with the
Defendant/Applicant/Appellant hereafter referred to as the Defendant.&nbsp; Both companies do their business mainly at
Obuasi from where they operate.&nbsp; The
Defendant operates at the Defendant’s Obuasi mines as Underground Development Contractor.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In recent years, the relationship
between the two companies was carried out mainly through what is known as
Underground Development Contract (“UDC).<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In August 2010 when the existing UDC
between the parties expired, the two companies engaged in preliminary
negotiation towards forming a Joint Venture Agreement and or a new company or
this failing, renew the UDC between the two companies.&nbsp; From the claim of the Plaintiff, the
Defendant owes the Plaintiff lots of money flowing inter alia, from their long
relationship, which Defendant failed to pay the Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Plaintiff particularly felt that
it was short-changed by the Defendant when its prospects of entering into a 5
year Underground Development Contract with the Defendant was truncated.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After the aforementioned
termination, the parties and the shareholders of the Plaintiff and the Ghana
Mines Workers Union of the Trade Union Congress executed a Separation Agreement
dated 8th November, 2012.&nbsp;
Under the said Separation Agreement Exhibit “KE 1”, the parties agreed
to a mutual separation from any existing presumed, actual or legal relationship
between the Plaintiff and the Defendant on the terms and conditions contained
in the said Separation Agreement.&nbsp; The
Defendant is discharged and released of all claims by the Plaintiff per the
said agreement.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Embodied in the Separation Agreement
is an arbitration clause which is the subject-matter of this appeal.<o:p></o:p>