[2020]DLHC10295 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B0F0">LAUD QUARTEY AND 4 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B0F0">LATEX FOAM GHANA LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";mso-font-kerning:1.5pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">SUIT NO.IL/0121/2016 DATE: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-font-kerning:1.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">15<sup>TH </sup>JUNE 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:142.95pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFFS: MR. DAVID BONDORIN, ESQ.<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT: MR. CHRIS OSEI YEBOAH, ESQ.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";mso-font-kerning:1.5pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS (MRS)<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:144.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt; line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">RELIEFS SOUGHT BY PLAINTIFFS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></u></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">By their writ of summons and statement of claim filed on the 1<sup>st</sup> of November 2016, the plaintiffs herein, numbering five in all, sought the following reliefs against the defendant, their former employer:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:90.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-54.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(i)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">A declaration that the termination of the plaintiffs’ employment was wrongful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:90.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:90.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-54.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(ii)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">An order compelling the defendant to pay all salaries due the plaintiffs from 1<sup>st</sup> September, 2016 to the date of judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:90.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-54.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(iii)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">General damages for breach of contract.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">The def