AKUA BRIWA ANANGA vs. UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA [2020]DLHC10182

Date	2020-05-05
Suit No.	SUIT NO. IL/0089/2017
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10182

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA JULIANA AIKINS (MRS)

MR. YAW ESHUN ESQ.

MS. MARGARET OWUSU ESQ.

[2020]DLHC10182
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AKUA BRIWA ANANGA<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL <o:p></o:p>MR. YAW ESHUN,
ESQ.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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MARGARET OWUSU, ESQ.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA JULIANA AIKINS (MRS)<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE
DECISION<o:p></o:p>It is the
decision of this Court that judgment must be entered in favour of the plaintiff
on some of the reliefs she seeks against the defendant and the reasons for
coming to such a decision are spelt out in the following discourse.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BRIEF
FACTS<o:p></o:p>The defendant
is a limited liability company carrying on the business of banking in Ghana.
The plaintiff herein was employed by the defendant in the year 2004 and she
worked for the defendant until the 12th of June, 2017 when she quit
her job as a manager of the Spintex Road branch of the defendant’s bank.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
plaintiff claimed she was subjected to undue pressure or harassment by the
defendant because a customer of the Tema branch of the defendant bank who had
taken a temporary overdraft facility from the Tema branch during the period the
plaintiff was manager of the Tema branch, had failed to complete payment of the
said facility and the defendant had requested the plaintiff to pay off the
outstanding balance on the facility by either using her bonus for the year 2016
or taking a loan from the defendant to pay off the said facility. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
plaintiff, after tendering her resignation to the defendant, sued the latter
about a month later for the reliefs endorsed on her amended writ of summons and
amended statement of claim. <o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RELIEFS
SOUGHT BY PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
reliefs sought by the plaintiff were as follows:-<o:p></o:p>