Customer Support

AYENSU
V.
ASAMOAH BOADI & ANOR

(2025) JELR 114404 (SC)

Supreme Court 19 Mar 2025 Ghana
BriefBot icon

BriefBot Summary

Free

- The plaintiff, a Ghanaian employed by the defendants to work in Liberia, sustained work-related injuries and claimed the defendants failed in their statutory duty to repatriate him to Ghana upon termination of his employment, as required

Case Details

Suit Number:J4/27/2024
Judges:BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC (PRESIDING), AMADU JSC, KULENDI JSC, ASIEDU JSC, DARKO ASARE JSC
Counsel:JOSEPH ARYITEY ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT N. SEYRAM DARBI ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS

 JUDGMENT

DARKO ASARE JSC:

1. My Lords, the appeal before this Honourable Court stems from a judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal, Accra on the 7th of July 2022, wherein the Court made an award in favour of the Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent for expenses incurred in his repatriation to Ghana, after the termination of his employment contract with the Defendants/Respondents/Appellants in Liberia.  

2. For purposes of convenience, the Parties in these proceedings, shall bear the same designation that they bore in the trial court and accordingly the Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent herein shall be described as the Plaintiff, whilst the Defendants/Respondents/Appellants herein as the Defendants

FACTS

3. The Plaintiff’s claim arose from an employment contract for a term of one year from July 2012, by which he was engaged by the Defendants, a team of electrical contractors, through an organization by the name of Neural Link Engineering (NLE) which had won a contract in Liberia with the Liberia…

There's more. Sign in to continue reading.

judy.legal is the comprehensive database of case law and legislation from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Gain seamless access to over 77,000 cases, recent judgments, statutes, and rules of court.