<p>JUDGMENT</p><p>On 13^th July 2009, the Plaintiff Peter Ofori of the Prisons Service issued out Writ of Summons against the Defendants for the following reliefs:</p><p>“(a) A declaration by this Honourable Court that since the Minister of Interior has not complied with Section 19 (3) of NRCD 46 of 1972, the service enquiry held at the Koforidua Prisons in which Plaintiff was found guilty and later reduced in rank from Lance Corporal to Second Class Officer is null and void and of no legal effect whatsoever;</p><p>(b) General damages for wrongful reduction of rank from Lance Corporal to Second Class Officer;</p><p>(c) An order of the Court directing the Defendants to restore Plaintiff to his rank and all outstanding salaries and benefits due to Plaintiff, be paid to her forthwith.”</p><p>In the accompanying Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff avers that he used to be a Lance Corporal working with the Ghana Prisons Service then stationed at Koforidua Prisons. He avers that whilst there he was invited by the authorities and i…</p>