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Chief Justice Gbeisay’s speech on his seating ceremony 0

Chief Justice Address / Recent Arguments / Speeches

20 Aug, 2025

Chief Justice Gbeisay’s speech on his seating ceremony

Your Excellency Jeremiah Kpan Koung, Vice President of the Republic of Liberia;
Honorable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives;
Honorable Senate Pro Tempore and Members of the Liberian Senate;
My Esteemed Colleagues of the Honorable Supreme Court;
Retired & Former Chief Justices & Associate Justices of the Supreme Court;
Circuit & Specialized Court Judges;
Members of the Cabinet;
Members of the Diplomatic Corps;
President and members of the Liberia National Bar Association;
My Wife, my aged mother and my children and other Family Members;
Members of the Press; Members of the

LIBERIAN JUDICIARY REACTS TO PUL’S STATEMENT 0

press Release

18 Aug, 2025

LIBERIAN JUDICIARY REACTS TO PUL’S STATEMENT

The Judiciary Branch of Liberia has strongly reacted to a statement issued by the President of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) on August 15, 2025, terming said statement, which accuses the courts in Rivercess County, particularly the Yarpah Town and Cestos City Magisterial Courts, of a “coordinated legal campaign aimed at harassing, intimidating and silencing journalists” in that county as reckless, ill-informed and misguided.
The Judiciary states that at no time did the magistrates named in the PUL’s statement abuse their judicial powers or authority to unlawfully arrest and detain two journalists as insinuated by the president of the PUL and is therefore abhor by such statement emanating from a body that is not only charged with the responsibility to ensure that the journalism profession is practiced with all

Toe Blopleh v. Victoria Marsh (08/15/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

15 Aug, 2025

Toe Blopleh v. Victoria Marsh (08/15/2025)

This appeal emanates from the ruling of Her Honor, Golda A. Bonah-Elliott, Assigned Circuit Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court for Montserrado County, sitting in its June Term, A.D. 2024, when she denied and dismissed appellant’s motion for joinder as a party defendant on ground that the appellant failed to produce evidence that the administrator of the Intestate Estate of Toe Blopleh had letters of administration at the time the action of ejectment was instituted, and that the appellant’s motion for joinder of party sought to have the court reverse its earlier ruling which placed the defendant on bare

The Intestate Estate of the Martha Stubblefield Bernard vs. Intestate Estate of the Danielette P. Tucker Bernard (08/15/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

15 Aug, 2025

The Intestate Estate of the Martha Stubblefield Bernard vs. Intestate Estate of the Danielette P. Tucker Bernard (08/15/2025)

The appellee, the Intestate Estate of Danielette P. Tucker Bernard, by and thru its administratrix, Danielle Thelma T. Bernard, on January 15, 2019, filed an action of ejectment before the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court, Montserrado County against the Testate Estate of William Thomas Bernard, thru its executrix as 1st defendant, and the Intestate Estate of Martha Stubblefield Bernard, represented by its administrator, Ebrima Varney Dempster, as 2nd defendant. The appellee alleged that the co-appellant Martha Stubblefield Bernard and William Thomas Bernard’s estates were in possession of the appellee’s 12.92 acres of land situated in Congo Town, Tubman Boulevard, and portion

TRH Trading Corporation and Fresh Frozen Food vs. APM Terminals Ltd (08/15/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

15 Aug, 2025

TRH Trading Corporation and Fresh Frozen Food vs. APM Terminals Ltd (08/15/2025)

The facts as culled from the records in this case reveals that TRH Trading Corporation and Fresh Frozen represented by and through their duly respectively authorized officer Mr. Bailal Ibrahim, appellees herein, filed before the Commercial Court of Liberia, a declaratory judgment action against APM Terminal Liberia Ltd., by and thru its Managing Director, Mr. George Adjei of Freeport, Bushrod Island, Monrovia, Liberia, appellant herein, alleging in its petition that the respondent, based upon a concession agreement with the Government of Liberia which was signed in September 2010, the respondent is responsible to provide among other things all marine services as

Prince Kenneh vs Judge Kennedy Peabody-2025-JIC (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Prince Kenneh vs Judge Kennedy Peabody-2025-JIC (08/14/2025)

The complainant, Mr. Prince Kanneh, filed a complaint with the Office of Her Honor, Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh, Chief Justice of the Republic of Liberia, against His Honor J. Kennedy Peabody, Sixth Judicial Court for Montserrado County in a letter dated February 24, 2022, stating that he was employed with one Bassam H. Jawhary who was the then executor of the late Milad R. Hage’s property lying in Paynesville; that the complainant was oppressed, suppressed and threatened by the respondent and requested the intervention of the Chief Justice; that while he was in the employ of Bassam H. Jawhary, they acquired

Tony Hage vs. John McGee, Serina McGee (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Tony Hage vs. John McGee, Serina McGee (08/14/2025)

The administrators of the Intestate Estate of John W. McGee, respondents herein, filed a summary proceeding to recover possession of real property against the movants, Tony Hage and other occupants before the Monrovia City Court on September 21, 2017. The Monrovia City Court adjudged the movants liable and they noted exception and announced an appeal on June 13, 2018 to the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit for Montserrado County and the trial judge presiding, reversed the ruling of the Monrovia City Court on the basis that the movants had a valid lease agreement with the respondent. The respondent noted

The Liberian Bank for Development & Investment vs. BMC Workers of Bong Mining Company (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

The Liberian Bank for Development & Investment vs. BMC Workers of Bong Mining Company (08/14/2025)

This appeal derives from an action of damages for wrong filed in 2004, by the appellees, workers of the Bong Mining Company (“BMC”), against the appellant, the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (“LBDI”) before the Six Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court for Montserrado County, presided over by His Honor Yussif D. Kaba, then Resident Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit.

The facts are that the Liberian Civil War led to the involuntary closure of the Bong Mining Company (BMC); that the Company in consultation with the Government of Liberia and appellees through its authorized officers decided to deposit United

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