<p>UZO I. NDUKWE-ANYANWU, J.C.A: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal from the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar Cross River State delivered on 2nd June, 2005. The Appellant in this appeal was the plaintiff in the court below. She filed an action in the Federal High Court for a declaration that her dismissal from services of the 1st Respondent was illegal, null and void as she was not accorded fair hearing and also for the failure of the Respondents to comply strictly with provisions of S.9 of the University Teaching Hospitals (Reconstitution of Boards) Act Cap 463 LFN 1990.</p><p> The Appellant claimed against the Respondents for the following:</p><p> i. A Declaration that the 1st Defendants letter Ref. No UCTH/112/399 dated 24th November, 1999, purporting to dismiss the plaintiff from the service of the 1st Defendant on the directive of the 2nd Defendant is unfair, irregular, unlawful and a breach of the terms of the Federal Civil Service Rules and the University …</p>