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Meridian BIAO Lib. Ltd. v. Cllr. Benedict Sannoh (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

Meridian BIAO Lib. Ltd. v. Cllr. Benedict Sannoh (02/17/2025)

This matter comes before us from the Debt Court for Montserrado County on account of a judgment rendered in favor of the Appellee, Counselor Benedict F. Sannoh in the tone of US$163,800(One Hundred Sixty Three Thousand Eight Hundred US Dollars) against the appellant, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), which took seized of Meridian BIAO Bank Liberia Limited under a Receivership. It is from the final judgment of the Debt Court that the appellant excepted and announced an appeal before this court en banc.

In order to get a full appreciation of the history of this matter, we take recourse

John F. Kennedy Medical Center v. Karen G. Sehkehporh(02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

John F. Kennedy Medical Center v. Karen G. Sehkehporh(02/17/2025)

In August 2020, Karen Gaydou Sehkehporh, appellee herein filed a twenty-two (22) count complaint action of damages for wrong in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, alleging that the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, appellant herein, had, thru its doctors, acted negligently in conducting a surgery on her person which led to multiple life threatening complications which forced her to undergo subsequent tests and multiple other surgeries at varying medical facilities which caused her huge financial constraints and caused her huge mental anguish and emotional distress and has left her in a state of mental and physical

JUDICIAL INQUIRY COMMISSION REPORT ON JUDGE SCHEAPLOR R. DUNBAR (02/17/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

JUDICIAL INQUIRY COMMISSION REPORT ON JUDGE SCHEAPLOR R. DUNBAR (02/17/2025)

Mr. Christopher A. Gittens filed a complaint before the then Chief Justice, His Honor Francis S. Korkpor, Sr., against His Honor Judge Scheaplor R. Dunbar, then assigned at Circuit Judge, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County. In his complaint, he alleged that in November 2018, the respondent judge ruled in his favor in an ejectment case involving 25 acres of land; pursuant to the ruling, the court placed the complainant in possession of the property with the aid of the Liberia National Police; that to his utmost surprise, the respondent judge reversed the said ruling, dispossess him and turned the property

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

2025 Opinins / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

17 Feb, 2025

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

On the 3rd day of July, A. D. 2023, the complainant, Mrs. Stephanie Randall, filed a complaint before the Chief Justice of the Honorable Supreme Court against Counselor Denise S. Sokan. The complainant alleged in her complaint that she hired the legal services of Counselor Denise S. Sokan to represent her interest in divorce proceedings instituted against her by her husband, Mr. Augustine P. Randall, Jr. She further averred that during the hearing of the matter, Cllr. Sokan exhibited a lack of critical communication and other acts of incompetence that affected the outcome of the proceedings; the court records retrieved

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

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17 Feb, 2025

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

On November 28, 2022, the Concerned Citizens of Gola Konneh District, Grand Cape Mount County, filed a complaint with Her Honor Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia, against Counsellor Benedict F. Sannoh, alleging unethical conduct.

The complaint substantially averred that Counsellor Sannoh misled some of the people of Gola Konneh District into believing that the chiefs and elders of the said district have the legal capacity to enter into a legal retainer agreement with him on behalf of their district, that the respondent charged the complainant exorbitant fees, 20% of any amount

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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