NEEQUAYE vs. GHANA FILM INDUSTRY CORPORATION [1992]DLCA2044

Date	1992-02-13
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1992]DLCA2044

AMUAH JA

ADJABENG J.A.

ESSILFIE-BONDZIE J.

ACHEAMPONG FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT.

THOMPSON FOR THE DEFENDANT-RESPONDENTS.

[1992]DLCA2044
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color:#00B0F0">GHANA FILM INDUSTRY CORPORATION<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[1992] 2 GLR 195<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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FEBRUARY 1992<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ACHEAMPONG FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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THOMPSON FOR THE DEFENDANT-RESPONDENTS. <o:p></o:p>

AMUAH, ADJABENG JJ.A. AND ESSILFIE-BONDZIE J. <o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGMENT OF AMUAH J.A.<o:p></o:p>Amuah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The
plaintiff-appellant (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff), an employee of
the Ghana Film Industry Corporation, who instituted an action at the High
Court, Accra claimed by his writ:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:38.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “An order for the rescission
of the interdiction imposed on the plaintiff by the defendants and to restore
him to his post as a lighting technician with the corporation. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:38.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-20.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for the payment to
the plaintiff of his full salaries with effect from the date of interdiction to
the date of judgment. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:38.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-20.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for the refund to the
plaintiff of the sum of $200 and C.F.A.5000 dubiously extorted from him by the
defendants in breach of the collective agreement.”<o:p></o:p>The Ghana Film Industry Corporation, the defendant-respondent
(hereinafter referred to as the defendant), maintained that the plaintiff was
not entitled to his claim. The learned trial judge however entered judgment in favour
of the defendant. Hence this appeal. She made the following pronouncement in
her judgment:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“. . . whether or not the plaintiff is entitled to reinstatement,
the recovery and refund of money wrongfully extorted from him when held in
terrorem, the defendant’s answer to the question is that the plaintiff has not
exhausted his domestic remedies set out in the collective agreement and at
worst the only relief the plaintiff could have come to the court to seek, is to
compel the defendant to investigate the matter within a specific period and
either reinstate the plaintiff or dismiss him.”<o:p></o:p>Aggrieved by the decision the plaintiff appealed to the Court of
Appeal on a number of grounds, namely:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(1). “The judgment is wholly
unreasonable and untenable having regard to the evidence. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(2). The trial court erred in law
in not considering the case law cited to her by the appellant as to the correct
procedures in dealing with a breach of the collective agreement, and calling it
a waste of time to do so. <o:p></o:p>