Category: Recent Decisions

The Management of Catholic Relief Services vs. Alex Whenyou (12/18/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

18 Dec, 2025

The Management of Catholic Relief Services vs. Alex Whenyou (12/18/2025)

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

Cllr. Saye Gbalazeh vs Activa International Liberia (12/18/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

18 Dec, 2025

Cllr. Saye Gbalazeh vs Activa International Liberia (12/18/2025)

This motion to dismiss derives from an appeal taken from the final ruling of the National Labor Court of Montserrado County. The court found Activa International Insurance Company (Liberia) Limited, respondent/appellant, liable for ‘Unfair Labor Practices’ against its former CEO, Saye Gbalazeh, movant/appellee.
Movant filed a motion to dismiss the pending appeal before this Court on the grounds that the appellant’s appeal bond is defective and contravenes Section 63.2 of the Civil Procedure Law. Movant particularly contends that: 1) the property that seeks to secure the bond has five titleholders, but only one of the said holders signed the affidavit

Judge Joseph Kollie vs Oceano Casino-Motion to Dismiss (12/18/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

18 Dec, 2025

Judge Joseph Kollie vs Oceano Casino-Motion to Dismiss (12/18/2025)

This motion to dismiss appeal is filed by appellee/movant, praying this Court to dismiss the appeal due to respondent/appellant’s failure to transcribe the appeal records to this Court within the statutory period as prescribed by law.

Culled from the transcript of this case is that the co-movant Kou Keita, an employee of the respondent’s entity, filed a complaint before the Labour Ministry against the respondent, the Management of Oceano Casino, for unfair labour practice/wrongful dismissal, in which complaint the co-movant, Kou Keita, stated that the respondent indefinitely suspended her on July 28, 2023, on allegations of theft of property, criminal

Peace Clinic V Olivia P Cooper (12/18/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

18 Dec, 2025

Peace Clinic V Olivia P Cooper (12/18/2025)

The records before us revealed that a final judgment was rendered in favor of the appellee in the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit for Montserrado County, in which the court below granted unto the appellee a summary judgment, due to the defendant, Madam Justine Mutako’s admission in her answer that the disputed property do not belong to her.

The facts as culled in this case revealed, that the appellee/plaintiff, Olivia Precious Cooper thru her Attorney-In-Fact, Ms. Sharon Wallace on May 22, 2019, filed with the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit for Montserrado County, an ejectment action for a

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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