[2022]DLHC17041 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">DUTCH AFRICAN TRADING COMPANY <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">WEST AFRICA MILLS CO LTD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt 168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CM/MISC/0381/2020 DATE: 13<sup>TH</sup> OCTOBER 2022</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">K. AMOFA WITH PAUL KOFI BOAKYE FOR THE APPLICANT<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">MIRACLE ATTACHEY HOLDING BRIEF FOR JUSTIN AMENUVOR FOR THE RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JUSTIN KOFI DORGU</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">RULING</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:33.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:33.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>emanated<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>High<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>seeking<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>leave<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>enforce a foreign arbitral award. The High Court presided over by Justice Doreen G. Boakye Agyei (Mrs) on 20<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>March 2020 refused to grant the application, in other words dismissed the Applicant’s case and gave judgment for the Respondent therein West Africa Mills Co. Ltd. The Applicant dissatisfied with the decision of the High Court filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:33.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>20<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span></span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>January,<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>2022,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>heard<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>gave<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>judgment for<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>Applicant<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>allowing<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>set<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>aside<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>High<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Court. Subsequently,<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>Applicant<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>herein,<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Dutch<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>African<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>Trading<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Company<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>filed<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">11th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt; mso-text-raise:3.5pt"> </span></span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>March<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>2022<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Entry<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>based<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>have same served on the Respondent/applicant herein. The details of the process reads:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“JUDGMENT<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>AFTER<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>TRIAL DATED<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>AND<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>ENTERED<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>THE 20<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">TH<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span></span>JANUARY,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">2021.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:33.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:14.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Upon this matter coming before their Lordship