[2024]DLCA17697 • July 25, 2024 • Court of Appeal
FIDEL BRANDFORD QUIST vs. THE JUDICIAL SERVICE, ACCRA & THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ACCRA
The Plaintiff, an employee of the Judicial Service, was petitioned against by Anas Aremeyaw Anas for alleged robbery. A Disciplinary Committee was constituted by the Chief Justice, which recommended dismissal of the Plaintiff based on evidence including a video. The Plaintiff was dismissed and challenged the dismissal as wrongful in the High Court, which dismissed his claim. The Plaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeal.
read moreJUDGMENT ADJEI, J.A: The Plaintiff/Appellant herein on 14th March 2022 filed an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra delivered on 13th January 2022 which dismissed all the reliefs sought by him against the Defendants/Respondents. For the purposes of this appeal, I shall refer to the Plaintiff/Appellant as Plaintiff and the Defendants/ Respondents as Defendants. The brief facts of this appeal were that on 31st August 2015, Anas Aremeyaw Anas petitioned the Chief Justice against the Plaintiff, who was an employee of the 2nd Defendant, on allegations of robbery. The Chief Justice, on receipt of the petition, constituted a panel in accordance with its Constitutional Disciplinary Procedure. The Disciplinary Committee, which was set up by the Chief Justice, was composed of two Circuit Court Judges and three other members, including a representative of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG). The Disciplinary Committee was chaired by one of the Circuit ...