Full ruling: Court's reasoning in striking out case by ex-nat’l service personnel against former banker boss, boyfriend

The High Court yesterday struck out and dismissed the action brought by Deborah Seyram Adablah, an ex-national service personnel, who sued her former boss and boyfriend, Mr. Ernest Nimako. 

Adablah's suit bothered on failed promises, maltreatment, exploitation, and above all deception in the course of their parlor relationship.

In the course of the trial, Nimako filed a  number of motions, including one for an order to strike out the pleadings and dismiss the suit for disclosing no reasonable cause of action.

The High Court presided by Justice John Bosco Nabarese granted the application, stating also in his ruling that the fact that the contract was based on immoral motives, then in the face of the law, it is deemed void. 

“I am therefore of the view that whatever the Respondent sought to benefit was her participation in an illegal and immoral act with the Applicant by being in a parlor relationship for financial consideration or gains, the act of which was not, according to the Respondent herself, in conformity with societal norms.

“Therefore, the case comes within the rule that out of a forbidden or immoral act no cause of action can arise.”

Read the full judgment on Dennislaw for more.