AUROBINDO PHARMA LIMITED vs. PHARMADIS INT. LTD. & ANOR.

MARIAMA OWUSU, J.A: On 28-10-2011, the High Court, [Commercial Division] Accra, held that the plaintiff was unable to prove that the termination of the 2nd defendant’s employment was fair. The Court upheld the 2nd defendant’s counterclaim and entered judgment for him as follows; “I order that the 2nd defendant be paid his net salary from July 2009 till March 2010. He testified that he was unemployed at the time he gave evidence. The law however expected him to mitigate his loss and so in addition I award the payment of salary for a further 6 months. By exhibit ‘5’ which is the revised conditions of service issued by the Plaintiff to him, the 2nd defendant was entitled to an annual bonus of USD 750. I order that this be calculated in appropriate terms for the period July 2009 and March 2010 and paid to him. By the same exhibit, he was entitled to a reimbursement of car maintenance and fuel expenses every month in the sum of USD 315; I order that he be paid that also for the...