GREAT CAPE COMPANY LTD vs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL & MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND MINISTRY OF FINANCE [2016]DLHC3588

GREAT CAPE COMPANY LTD vs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL & MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND MINISTRY... [2016]DLHC3588

Date	2016-10-21
Suit No.	SUIT NO.BPC/11/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC3588

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY DR. NAT TANOH

ANDREW DANIELS ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF

GRACE OPPONG MS PSA FOR DEFENDANTS

[2016]DLHC3588
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">GREAT
CAPE COMPANY LTD<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>ATTORNEY-GENERAL &amp; MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND MINISTRY OF
FINANCE<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL
DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO.BPC/11/2015&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; &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;DATE: 21ST OCTOBER, 2016 <o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY, DR. NAT TANOH <o:p></o:p>ANDREW
DANIELS, ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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GRACE OPPONG, MS, PSA FOR DEFENDANTS <o:p></o:p>

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE
OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p>

JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Plaintiff, a company registered under the laws of
Switzerland and acting through its lawful attorney, Dr. Nat Tanoh on the
15/05/15 issued a writ out of the Registry of the court seeking the following
reliefs:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">A declaration that following from the admission
 of liability by the Attorney General for and behalf of the Government of
 Ghana on 18th April, 2001 and again on the 8th July,
 2014, the Plaintiff is entitled to an amount of US$1,117,818.45 (One
 Million, One Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighteen US
 Dollars and Forty Five Cents) as damages for breach of contract and also
 pursuant to S. 18(1) of the Limitations Act, 1972 (NRCD 54).<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">A further declaration that the defendants are
 estopped from in anyway denying the liability of the Government of Ghana
 in the terms as set out in relief (a) above.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Interest on (a) until date of final payment.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Costs and such further order(s) as the honourable
 court may deem fit.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>PLAINTIFF’S
CASE<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff provides the basis of his claim to the
reliefs he seeks in a twenty three paragraph statement of claim that
accompanied the issuance of the writ.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff avers that it entered into a contract dated 9th
May 1978 with the Ghana National Procurement Agency (GNPA) for the supply of
200,000 tonnes of cement clinker to GNPA. And that under the SMC II Government,
GNPA wrongly abrogated the contract on the 23rd November 1978 after
rejecting a third shipment from the Plaintiff. <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff further states that in 1981 a Committee of
Enquiry appointed by the Government of Ghana established the liability of GNPA
and that after negotiation between the parties the Plaintiff agreed to accept
$400,000.00 in full and final settlement of the GNPA’s indebtedness to the
Plaintiff on condition that payment will be made promptly.<o:p></o:p>It is Plaintiff’s case that the 2nd Defendant
failed to make the payments as agreed, and that in 1987 the Solicitor General
acting for the 1st Defendant agreed that an interest of 8.5% per
annum compound interest would accrue on the amount of $400,000.00. <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff then proceeds to states that in 1998, the
then Minister of Finance acting on the advice of the then Attorney General paid
the amount of $927,000.00 to the Plaintiff. <o:p></o:p>In February 2001 the Plaintiff petitioned the 1st
Defendant for payment to it of a balance of the amount due on the ground that
there had been a miscalculation of the amounts of interests that had accrued on
the debt at the time the 2nd Defendant made its part payment in
1998. <o:p></o:p>It is the Plaintiff’s case that even though the 1st
Defendant in a letter dated the 18th April 2001 agreed through its
then Attorney General, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo and directed the 2nd
Defendant to pay an outstanding debt of $1,117,818.45, the 2nd
defendant has failed to make such payment.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff says
that despite several requests to the 1st and 2nd
Defendants to make good their indebtedness to the Plaintiff,</main>