[2017]DLCA5954 • June 28, 2017 • Court of Appeal
MR. CHRISTOPHER DANSO AND 7 OTHERS vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL & 4 ORS
The Plaintiffs/Appellants, teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service stationed at Akumfi Ameyaw Senior High School, were implicated in a student agitation that led to property destruction. A committee chaired by Mr. Amanor Kyeremeh made adverse findings against them without giving them a copy of the report or opportunity to be heard. Based on the report, the Appellants were transferred to other schools. They alleged procedural irregularities, breach of natural justice, defamation, and sought declarations and damages.
read moreTORKORNOO (MRS), J.A. The Plaintiffs/Appellants are teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service. They were stationed at Akumfi Ameyaw Senior High Secondary School at Aworowa as at April 2011 when this suit was commenced by them. According to their Amended Statement of Claim, on 24th January 2010, the students of the school embarked on an ‘agitation’ which resulted in destruction of properties. A committee was set up chaired by one Mr. Amanor Kyeremeh, a retired educator which ‘made adverse findings against’ the Appellants in its report on the ‘student agitations’ and its cause. According to their Statement of Claim, though they applied for a copy of the report, the committee failed to give it to them. However, ‘by the work of providence, they happened to get some extracts’ from the said report and it is these extracts which informed them of the said adverse findings. The committee also made recommendations in their report. It is their case that they were complet...