The Supreme Court on Wednesday dashed the hopes of more than 4,000 former casual workers of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GHAPOHA) of getting extra compensation for a redundancy exercise carried out by the authority in 2002. The court, by a unanimous decision, dismissed the case on the grounds that the legal team of the retrenched casual workers failed to, among other things, do due diligence on the case. “I say ‘painfully’ because it is not that the appellants did not have a case to pursue but they have lost because their case was not well-handled with due diligence,”~ Mrs Justice Rose Comfort Owusu, Now my problem is that, how can a court seeking to do justice to case end up doing injustice yet is very much aware that the applicants had a case but was poorly handled by their lawyers. This cliché of come properly before the court can really be nauseating! Couldnt the Supreme Court prompt the applicants to fire their counsels or rebuke the counsels to do the right thing because the economic rights of the applicants was at stake? Justice Sai, Justice Abdulai, John Kumah, John Salifu, help for this is irritating!
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:15:50 +0000
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