[2016]DLCA4433 • February 10, 2016 • Court of Appeal
AGNES YARBOI vs. COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE PER THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR, AKIM ODA.
The Plaintiff, Agnes Yarboi, was a typist at the Akim Oda District Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). She was interdicted and subsequently dismissed following allegations including attempting to influence a Circuit Court Judge with financial inducement, habitual lateness, insubordination, and quarrelsome behavior at work. The Plaintiff denied these allegations and challenged the procedural fairness of the disciplinary process leading to her dismissal.
read moreL. L. MENSAH, J.A. This is an appeal launched by the Plaintiff/Appellant who will hereinafter be referred to as the Plaintiff against the judgment of the High Court, Koforidua in favour of Defendant on 29th September, 2008. Defendant/Respondent is hereinafter referred to as the Defendant. The facts which begot this appeal are as follows:- The Plaintiff until 21st September 2001 was a typist at Akim Oda District Office of the Defendant institution which is headed by a District Director. The case of the Plaintiff is that while at CHRAJ Akim Swedru as a worker, she went to His Honour Judge Koomson, the then Circuit Court Judge at Akim Swedru. She went to the judge to plead with him to collect an amount of money which her brother paid for a car he bought since it was not a good car. When she went she did not offer any bribe to the judge. She was put on interdiction and later a Committee was formed to go into the matter concerning His Honour Judge Koomson. She was not asked to co...