Your Legal Eye: Update #252
Do you know that if a party is denied the right to be heard in a matter, it constitutes a fundamental error for proceedings in that matter to be declared a nullity? However, where an employee has been found to have engaged in gross misconduct, even a summary dismissal would not be considered as breach of the principles of fair hearing. Gavor v. Bank of Ghana [2013-2014] 2 SCGLR 1081, as re-echoed by the Supreme Court in Allotey v. Electricity Company Ltd [2023] GHASC 81(5th July 2023).
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