The case in which a woman has sued the chief finance officer of a bank for allegedly breaching an agreement to take care of her came up once more at the High Court in Accra with tangential issues hanging in the way of the substantive matter.
At the court’s first hearing, the presiding judge, Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu, had ordered the parties in the case to file their written submissions to enable the court to delve into the substantive matter.
However, when the case was called yesterday, lawyers for the man sued by Deborah Seyram Adablah had filed an application seeking leave to file a supplementary affidavit in support of their written submission.
Counsel for Ernest Kwasi Nimako, a Chief Finance Officer of the bank where the young woman did her national service and has made sexual harassment claims against in her suit, notified the court about the application.
However, counsel for the plaintiff, Mohammed Attah, told the court that his client had also filed an application seeking to oppose the application filed by Nimako.
Counsel argued on grounds that lawyers for Nimako failed to state precisely the paragraphs of his affidavit they wanted to respond to.
He added that Nimako’s lawyers ought to have filed the supplementary affidavit as of right because that was the practice.
source:ghbase.com