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BENJAMIN DUFFOUR V. BANK OF GHANA

(2022) JELR 109770 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  NO. J4/70/2021  •  9 Feb 2022  •  Ghana

Coram
PWAMANG JSC (PRESIDING) DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC OWUSU (MS.) JSC LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

Judgement

JUDGMENT

DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC:-

Facts

The plaintiff/appellant/ herein, was an employee of the defendant/respondent, Bank of Ghana. I will refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant hereafter.

The defendant allocated its premises, Block F, 2nd Shippi Close East Cantonments to a number of its staff including the plaintiff for their occupation based on a license agreement. The plaintiff occupied Flat 3 in the said block F. In the year 2011, the bank needed to redevelop the said property; it therefore gave notice to the occupants including the plaintiff to relocate to an alternative accommodation the bank provided. All other staff of the bank who occupied block F moved out as instructed, except the plaintiff. Repeated warning letters were served on the plaintiff requiring him to move out but he refused. He maintained there was a license agreement between him and his employer, the terms of which he claimed entitled him to remain in the flat. After repeated written warnings and sanctions faiā€¦

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