Category: Recent Decisions

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition filed by some former senior government officials. They are requesting this Court to prohibit, reverse, enjoin, and vacate rulings and orders issued by the respondent judge of the First Judicial Circuit Court, Criminal Assizes “C,” Montserrado County. The petitioners argued that the trial judge erred in three ways: first, by denying their motion to dismiss the indictment based on immunity as actors or operatives of the National Security Council (NSC); second, by refusing to rescind ex parte subpoenas issued to the Ministry of Finance & Development Planning (MFDP) & the Central

This motion to dismiss appeal emanates from a judgment rendered by the National Labor Court reversing the ruling of the Ministry of Labor on January 28, 2025. The movant requests this Court to dismiss the appeal filed by the respondent from the said judgment solely on the ground that: that the respondent failed to superintend its appeal by neglecting to submit the certified copy of its records before the Supreme Court within the period of ninety (90) days as prescribed by the Civil Procedure Law, Rev. Code 1:51.11; that up to the filing of this motion to dismiss appeal the

Mr. Kpedee Woiwor of the City of Monrovia, appellant herein, is a Liberian businessman who on June 3, 2017, was approached by Mr. Diego Pol, an Italian businessman about the prospects of entering into a Financial Investment Scheme valued at Seven Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty United States Dollars (US$783,650.00) on an interest and commission basis. The agreement provided that each of the parties (appellant & appellee) would each invest a total amount of Three Hundred Ninety-One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-Five United States Dollars (US$391,825.00) to raise a total of Seven Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty

The facts as culled from the records provide that Mrs. Jude Moore Settro, movant herein, filed this motion to dismiss appeal before this Court alleging that Mrs. Christine Settro Johnson, Solomon Settro and Mrs. Christine Juah Settro, respondents herein have abandoned their appeal that is before this Court and as such their appeal should be dismissed.

The records reveal that the Movant, Mrs. Jude Moore Settro, instituted a Petition for Declaratory Judgment before the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Montserrado County, on December 14, 2022, seeking a declaration of her rights and an injunction against the Respondents from conducting

Our esteemed colleague, Madam Justice Ceaineh D. Clinton-Johnson, while presiding in Chambers, rendered a ruling on August 26, 2025, quashing the alternative writ of certiorari issued by her chambers and denying the peremptory writ prayed for by the petitioner. The petitioner, discontented with this ruling of the Justice in Chambers, excepted and announced an appeal to this Court en banc, assigning what it believes to be errors committed by the Justice in Chambers for this Court’s review and subsequent reversal.

Recourse to the certified records reveal that on October 25, 2023, a writ of arrest was issued by the Monrovia

This motion to dismiss appeal emanates from a judgment rendered by the National Labor Court for Montserrado County on the 19th of April 2024, denying respondent’s petition for judicial review to overturn a ruling made by the hearing officer at the Ministry of Labor for an unfair labor practice action filed by the respondent thereof. The movant requests this Court to dismiss the appeal filed by the respondent from the said judgment on two grounds: (a) that the respondent failed to superintend its appeal by neglecting to submit the certified copy of its records before the Supreme Court within the