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REPUBLIC
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND OTHERS; EX PARTE OWUSU

(1981) JELR 63636 (HC)

High Court 21 Aug 1981 Ghana
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- Certiorari does not lie to quash dismissal or intermediary proceedings in ordinary master-servant employment contracts, even for public sector managing directors, where statutory terms provide for dismissal without explicit requirement of

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Judges:ROGER KORSAH J.
Counsel:W. A. N. ADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE APPLICANT; J. O. LINDSAY FOR THE RESPONDENT.
Other Citations:[1982-83] GLR 311

KORSAH J.

By his motion the applicant seeks the following reliefs:

“(a) an order of certiorari to bring up and quash the report of the second respondents containing adverse findings against the applicant and recommendations for his dismissal from the post of managing director of the Ghana National Trading Corporation by reason of the ¢29 million watch straps affair;

(b) an order of certiorari to bring up and quash the decision of either the government or the third respondent or both purporting to dismiss the appellant from his post of managing director of the Ghana National Trading Corporation; and

(c) an order of mandamus directing the applicant’s reinstatement forthwith as managing director of the Ghana National Trading Corporation.”

The facts leading to the interdiction of the applicant on 23 March 1981, are as stated in the ruling in miscellaneous application No. 113/81. Before his interdiction on 23 March 1981, the chairman of the State Enterprises Commission (SEC) had addressed th…

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