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Class Actions

  • Overview
  • Experience

Class action lawsuits are filed with increasing frequency in today's business world.

Our class action defense lawyers in Ghana are well positioned to help clients defend themselves against these lawsuits.

Experience has included advising:

  • In the context of court actions by 580 former employees of Gold Fields Ghana Limited for wrongful termination, and 1,000 persons for damages arising out of a resettlement program by Gold Fields Ghana Limited.
  • Abosso Goldfields Ghana Limited in an appeal in the Supreme Court on behalf of the client against a decision of the Court of Appeal in a claim brought by 77 persons for among other reliefs compensation for farms crops lost due to their relocation from their settlement as a result of the mining activities of the client.
  • Gold Fields Ghana Limited in litigation brought against it by a labor union over its decision to engage in contract mining resulting in the retrenchment of approximately 2,300 employees.