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THE GRIEVANCE AND ETHICS COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON COMPLAINT FILED BY MR. EDGAR SYDNEY (08/27/2026) 0

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27 Aug, 2026

THE GRIEVANCE AND ETHICS COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON COMPLAINT FILED BY MR. EDGAR SYDNEY (08/27/2026)

The matter before this Court emanates from an investigative report submitted by the Grievance and Ethics Committee of this Court pursuant to a complaint filed by Mr. Edgar Sydney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mano River Agricultural Rehabilitation Development Corporation (MARDCO), alleging professional misconduct against Counsellor Cooper W. Kruah, Counsellor George E. Henries, and Counsellor Charles W. Brumskine. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Chief Justice on July 25, 2014, and was referred to the Grievance and Ethics Committee for investigation and recommendation.

The Committee conducted hearings, received documentary evidence, and heard testimony from the parties

Supreme Court contempt against Mr. Justin Oldpa Yeazehn (Prophet key) (02/12/2026) 0

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13 Feb, 2026

Supreme Court contempt against Mr. Justin Oldpa Yeazehn (Prophet key) (02/12/2026)

On February 2, 2026, Mr. Justin Oldpa Yeazen, the contemnor herein made and published a podcast on his social media platform wherein he accused the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of acts of corruption and the Contemnor went further to levy derogative vulgarities and profanities against the Chief Justice and the Judiciary as a whole, and perplexingly against the Chief Justice’s mother.
On February 4, 2026, the Honorable Supreme Court invited the contemnor to appear before the full bench on Tuesday February 10, 2026 to show cause why he should not be held in Contempt of

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

IN RE GRIEVANCE AND ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT ON COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST CLLR. THOMPSON N JARGBA (12/19/2024) 0

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19 Dec, 2024

IN RE GRIEVANCE AND ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT ON COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST CLLR. THOMPSON N JARGBA (12/19/2024)

The Complainants herein, Jeremiah T. Hinneh and Jiah Nyanay filed a complaint on May 1, 2024, alleging that they are defendants in a Summary Proceeding to Recover Possession of Real Property case in which the case was tried in the Civil Law Court for Montserrado County and judgment was rendered against them. That upon the rendition of judgment against them, their lawyer, Counsellor Thompson Jargba excepted and announced an appeal to the Supreme Court but did not file an appeal bond and notice of completion of appeal which if they are not filed, they will lose their property.

The complainants

The Unconstitutionality of Several Actions taken by Certain Members of the House of Representatives (12/06/2024) 0

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6 Dec, 2024

The Unconstitutionality of Several Actions taken by Certain Members of the House of Representatives (12/06/2024)

Mr. Justice Tubman speaking for the Supreme Court in the case Fazzah v. The
National Economy Committee, 8LLR, 84,85 (1943) opined that every so often:
“…there arises some litigation in the course of judicial proceedings like a mighty
billow raising itself to a magnificent height as out of the sea, arousing public excitement, curiosity, anxiety), and interest. The civilians, as seashore visitors and dwellers, look on, some with fear, others with satisfaction, and yet others with amazement and trembling; out these legal billows seem, as it were, to dash themselves upon the shore as do the ocean billows and recede into

In Re Petitioner of Attorneys-at-Law for counsellorship (06/14/2024) 0

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14 Jun, 2024

In Re Petitioner of Attorneys-at-Law for counsellorship (06/14/2024)

The New Judiciary Law, Section 17.6, states:

“Any attorney who has been actively engaged in the practice of law for five years may submit a petition to the Supreme Court showing his moral and professional qualifications for membership in the Bar of the Supreme Court and praying admission as a counsellor of that Court. The petition shall be supported by the affidavit of at least two practicing counsellors of the Supreme Court en banc in open court. If the Supreme Court accepts the petition, the Chief Justice shall appoint a committee of at least three counsellors of the Supreme Court

Minister Dean Contempt Proceedings (08/11/2023) 0

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11 Aug, 2023

Minister Dean Contempt Proceedings (08/11/2023)

In an Opinion growing out of contempt proceedings against then Attorney General/Minister of Justice, C. Abayomi Cassell, the Supreme Court, in 1961 speaking through Mr. Chief Justice James A.A. Pierre in the case: In Re C. Abayomi Cassell, 14LLR 391, 403, 404 (1961), opined thus:

“…the Judiciary is the anchor which holds stabilized government in balance; without it, vested interest might suffer, sacred rights [will] be violated, constituted authority [will] be challenged; and in fine, administrative chaos could result…The Judiciary is only as weak as the concept of those who imagine it to be so; and it is as strong as the will of those who worship within its shrine…”

We affirm and confirm this holding of the Supreme Court, and are of the view that same is epiphanic and true, not just to the faithful few of 1961 but also to the current worshippers and priests in Black Silk who revered the sacredness of these hallow walls and have sworn by holy writ to show due respect to the courts at all times regardless of their station or social status.

The present case is another classical example of another Attorney General/Minister of Justice and Dean of the Supreme Court Bar who has substituted his ethical responsibilities to the courts of Liberia with that of mudslinging in order to impugn and undermine the image of the Judiciary and to camouflage the ineptitude of the Institution he heads and as the chief prosecutor of all crimes in the Republic of

IN RE THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION PLANNED CONDUCT OF THE VOTERS (04/12/2023) 0

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12 Apr, 2023

IN RE THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION PLANNED CONDUCT OF THE VOTERS (04/12/2023)

According to legal scholars of constitutional law, “the constitution represents the Supreme written will of the people regarding the framework for their Government. Where a constitution asserts a certain right, or lays down a certain principle of law or procedure, it speaks for the entire people as their supreme law, and it is the paramount authority for all that is done in pursuance of its provisions. The constitution embodies fundamental values and articulates the

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