Category: Recent Decisions

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

ELIZABETH MARSH VS. UNITED MUSLIMS (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

ELIZABETH MARSH VS. UNITED MUSLIMS (12/19/2024)

Under our jurisprudence, the right to appeal is inviolable. However, it is not absolute. The appellant is under legal obligation to ensure that all mandatory steps for the perfection of its appeal must be fully complied with, in order to give this Court the legal authority to review the records and make final determination in the case.
Article 20(b) of the 1986 Constitution states that “The right of an appeal from a judgment, decree, decision or ruling of any court or administrative board or agency, except the Supreme Court, shall be held inviolable. The Legislature shall prescribe rules and procedures

Ms. Ding Shu Jun (CKA Nancy Chinese Lady) vs. Najib Kamand (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

Ms. Ding Shu Jun (CKA Nancy Chinese Lady) vs. Najib Kamand (12/19/2024)

The records before us reveal that the final judgment in the underlying action of debt by attachment was handed down by the Judge of the Debt Court of Montserrado County, His Honor James E. Jones, on April 30, 2024, in favor of the movant/appellee and the respondent/appellant announced an appeal to this Supreme Court. However, it is shown from the records that the appellant only complied with steps one and two of the appeals process, that is, noting exception and announcing an appeal from the final ruling in open court and thereafter filing an approved bill of exceptions within ten

Siaka A. Turay v. Ma Konneh Kamara, et, al.(12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

Siaka A. Turay v. Ma Konneh Kamara, et, al.(12/19/2024)

On July 17, 2024, the movant, Siaka Turay, filed this motion to dismiss the respondents, Ma Konneh Kamara et al., appeal, averring therein that the movant instituted an action of ejectment against the respondents and all occupants under her control on the 27th Day of January 2023 at the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court; movant further averred that after pleadings rested, and considering that the parties derived their titles from the same grantors and that the movant’s title is older than that of the respondents, the movant filed a motion for summary judgment, which was heard and granted by

NPA v. James R. Bernard, Gabriel Bull, et. al. (12/19/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

NPA v. James R. Bernard, Gabriel Bull, et. al. (12/19/2024)

It is the law that “when actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before a court of record, the court, upon motion of any party or sua sponte, may order a joint trial of any or all the matters in issue or the consolidation of the actions; and it may make such other orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.” Civil Procedure Law, Revised Code 1:6.3; also see the case: Attorney Garrison Doldeh Yearlu, Jr. et al., v. The Executive Branch of Government, Supreme Court Opinion, March Term, A.D. 2024.

Kumba Bendu and Sons v. His Honor James E. Jones et. al (12/19/2025) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

19 Dec, 2024

Kumba Bendu and Sons v. His Honor James E. Jones et. al (12/19/2025)

This appeal grows out of the ruling of our distinguished colleague, His Honor Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, Sr., Justice presiding in Chambers, in a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Kumba Bendu and Sons, appellee herein, alleging substantially that the Judge of the Debt Court of Montserrado County, proceeded to close down its businesses, and businesses belonging to its tenants, based on an action of debt filed by the Intestate Estate of John N. Lewis, the appellant herein, against Mr. Eric Wellington of ERICO World Wide Venture, (hereinafter known as ERICO) without any notice to the appellee as the

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