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IN RE GEC INVESTIGATION ON CLLR. KRUAH (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

IN RE GEC INVESTIGATION ON CLLR. KRUAH (02/17/2025)

Madam Josephine T. Power, alleging violation of some provisions of the Code for the Moral and Ethical Conduct of Lawyers, filed a complaint with the Office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia against Counsellor Cooper W. Kruah. As an established norm of the Court, the Chief Justice forwarded this complaint to the Judiciary’s Grievance and Ethics Committee (GEC) to probe into the same and make recommendations, if necessary, as to their findings based on their investigation in accordance with due process of law.

The Grievance and Ethics Committee (GEC) wrote to Counselor Cooper W. Kruah, bringing

GEC Report on Cllrs. Dempter Brown & Nigba (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

GEC Report on Cllrs. Dempter Brown & Nigba (02/17/2025)

This case originates from a complaint of Sexual Exploitation, harassment and Abuse (SEA) filed before Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) of Liberia, by Mrs. Beatrice Wesseh, a staff of the (INCHR), against Attorney Mohammed E. Fahnbulleh, a commissioner, also of the INCHR.

Upon an investigation conducted by the team commissioned by authorities of the INHCR, it found Commissioner Fahnbulleh liable and recommended that he be reprimanded consistent with the Code of Conduct. Not satisfied with the manner in which the report from the investigation was handled by Counsellor T. Dempster Brown, as head of the INCHR, and Counsellor

Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al v Milton D Taylor (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al v Milton D Taylor (02/17/2025)

When this case was called for a hearing, the counsel representing the plaintiffs-in-error, Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al., was absent. Upon Inquiry, the Clerk of the Court informed the Court that Counsellor Laveli Supuwood verbally informed the Clerk that he had a stomach complain and would return for the hearing after attending to his stomach issue. The Court invoked Rule IV Part 6 of the Revised Rule of the Supreme Court, which states in part that “…If, when the case is again called for hearing, the party or counsel again fails to appear or file a brief, the Court shall proceed

Atty. Lamii Kpargoi v. His Honor Scheaplor R. Dunbar (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

Atty. Lamii Kpargoi v. His Honor Scheaplor R. Dunbar (02/17/2025)

The facts as culled from the records reveal that Attorney Lamii Kpargoi, appellant herein, filed a petition for legitimization of Tenneh F. Kpargoi, a minor who he claims to be his child in the monthly and probate court for Montserrado County, seeking to legitimize the child as his for all legal and beneficial intents and purposes. The child’s mother, Miss Beatrice Kemokai, appellee herein, filed an objection to the said petition for legitimization by and thru her attorneys-in-fact, Yatta Walker, Emmanuel Hoff and Runetta P. Scott because she is out of the bailiwick of Liberia.

The appellant in his petition

REGINALD HOLDER et. al. vs. Mrs. Sando Pauline G. Holder (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

REGINALD HOLDER et. al. vs. Mrs. Sando Pauline G. Holder (12/19/2024)

The records in this case reveal that the movants/appellees, Reginald M. Holder, Sr., Richard F. Holder, Lagnfelt Holder and James Charles, were respondents in a petition for revocation of extended letters of administration and a petition for proper accounting filed in the Monthly and Probate Court for Montserrado County by the respondents/appellants/petitioner, Mrs. Sando Pauline G. Holder and Anna Holder of the USA.

On April 22, 2024, the Judge presiding over the case by assignment, His Honor U-Jay W. H. S. Bright, handed down a final ruling, adjudging the respondents, movants now before us, not liable and ordering that the

Ralph Wilson v. Lucinda Finda (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

Ralph Wilson v. Lucinda Finda (12/19/2024)

This appeal emanates from a ruling on a motion to dismiss filed by the appellant on August 5, 2015, against a petition for revocation of letters of administration filed by the appellee, Lucinda Finda Blasser, to declare void ad initio letters of administration issued to the appellant, Ralph Wilson, on October 18, 2013.
Having spent time going through the painstaking task of reviewing the disorganized records of the file forwarded to this Court from the Probate Court of Montserrado County, we see from the records that Lucinda Finda Blasser and Cleopatra Tannous, daughter and sister of the deceased Mary Wilson

MITCHELL BARCLAY VS. MAGISTRATE HASSAN ZONBO GEC (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

MITCHELL BARCLAY VS. MAGISTRATE HASSAN ZONBO GEC (12/19/2024)

The Code of Moral and Professional Ethics for Liberian lawyers (“the Code”) regulates the conduct of lawyers in Liberia with respect to their interactions with the courts, clients, litigants, the public, and as well as to serve as a tool for self-assessment and discipline for lawyers in reinforcing and upholding law practice as an honourable profession.

On October 3, 2022, the complainant, Mr. Mitchell Barclay, filed a complaint with the Office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia against Associate Magistrate Hassan N. Zonbo of the Tubmanburg Magisterial Court, alleging that the Security Director of Mano Palm

MRS. MONICA FREEMAN DEWALT (LACE) VS. MR. JULIUS K. SELE (LACE) (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

MRS. MONICA FREEMAN DEWALT (LACE) VS. MR. JULIUS K. SELE (LACE) (12/19/2024)

This appeal originates from a Chambers Justice’s ruling denying a petition for the writ of prohibition filed by the appellant, Monica Freeman Dewalt, as petitioner. In her petition before the Chambers Justice, the appellant alleged that the co-appellee Mr. Julius K. Sele, Executive Director of the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (“LACE”), acted without legal authority when he terminated her services at LACE where she served as the Finance Director.

The certified records reveal that the appellant was employed by LACE on September 4, 2018, for a period of one year which was subsequently extended on July 4, 2019 for

MARTIN MISOSCHEWSK VS. AFRILAND FIRST BANK (12/19/2025) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

MARTIN MISOSCHEWSK VS. AFRILAND FIRST BANK (12/19/2025)

This case grows out of an appeal taken from the ruling of our esteem colleague, Madam Justice Jamesetta Howard Wolokolie, when she served as Chambers Justice during the October 2023 Term of this Court. The Chambers Justice in her ruling dated February 8, 2024 sustained the alternative writ of certiorari issued and granted the peremptory writ. The appellant, being dissatisfied with the Chambers Justice’s ruling, noted exceptions and announced an appeal to this Court en banc for review and final disposition.

The facts as curled from the certified records of this case revealed that the appellants, Martin Misoschewsk and Mr.

GLOBAL BANK LIBERIA LIMITED v. MADAM BEATRICE N. DENNIS AND NATHANIEL(12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

GLOBAL BANK LIBERIA LIMITED v. MADAM BEATRICE N. DENNIS AND NATHANIEL(12/19/2024)

The records from the case file reveal that the appellee Beatrice N. Dennis filed a letter of complaint to the Ministry of Labor, stating, inter alia, that she has been in the employ of the appellant, Global Bank Liberia, Ltd. from December 1, 2004, to May 28, 2013, constituting eight years and five months of continuous service; that during this period she held several positions to include, Chief of Personnel, Head of Human Resources and Administration, Head of Corporate Resources, and Acting Managing Director/CEO. The appellee further stated that having reached age 64, she wrote to the Board of Directors

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