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DEGBOR
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ATLANTIC PORT SERVICE

(2019) JELR 109730 (SC)

Supreme Court 12 Jun 2019 Ghana
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- Plaintiff, a senior management employee of defendant corporation, was interdicted in January 2008 and later reinstated by a letter from the Managing Director on 26 September 2011, which the defendant challenged as unauthorized by its Boar

Case Details

Suit Number:J4/29/2018
Judges:DOTSE, JSC (PRESIDING) YEBOAH, JSC APPAU, JSC PWAMANG, JSC MARFUL-SAU, JSC
Counsel:YAW D. OPPONG FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT. O. K. OSAFO-BUABENG WITH BENEDICTA ANTWI FOR THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

APPAU, JSC:- 

The respondent herein was the plaintiff in the trial High Court. He sued the appellant  herein who was his employer as defendant, claiming three (3) major reliefs plus other  ancillary ones. The major reliefs were:

i. a claim for the liquidated sum of  GHc327,486.47, which he described as outstanding balance of arrears of unpaid salaries  and allowances during the period of plaintiff’s wrongful interdiction and voluntary  retirement package;

ii. interest on the said sum from 26thSeptember 2011 till date of  payment and;

iii. damages for wrongful interdiction. The ancillary reliefs were:

iv. An  order to set aside a purported re-imposition of plaintiff’s earlier wrongful interdiction  and;

v. a declaration that plaintiff lawfully and effectively retired from defendant’s  employment upon the attainment of fifty-five (55) years on 24/12/2012. 

Plaintiff lost in the trial High Court but on appeal, the Court of Appeal reversed the  decision of the trial High Court and entered …

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