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Selected-Forum and Community Staff Actions

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ECOWAS law empowers the Community Court to entertain actions filed by parties that have chosen the Court as their forum for settlement of disputes arising from agreements. This jurisdiction of the Community Court to hear selected-forum cases covers commercial and non-commercial relations. ECOWAS law has also procedural space for members of staff of any of the institutions of the Community to bring actions that pertain to their employment contracts. Summarily, this chapter explores these two disparate procedures as provided under Article 9 of the Protocol Relating to the Community Court of Justice.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    USLEGAL.

  2. 2.

    [1978] AC 795.

  3. 3.

    Druzin (2009), p. 5.

  4. 4.

    Supplementary Protocol A/SP.1/1/05.

  5. 5.

    Article 9 (6) Protocol Relating to the Community Court of Justice 1991 as amended.

  6. 6.

    Chapter 4 dealt with conflict in West Africa extensively.

  7. 7.

    Garner (2004), p. 74.

  8. 8.

    2012, p. 1.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., p. 2, para 3.

  10. 10.

    2009, p. 279, para 24.

  11. 11.

    Article 9 (6) of the Supplementary Protocol A/SP.1/1/05.

  12. 12.

    Article 19(1) Protocol relating to the Community Court of Justice 1991.

  13. 13.

    Article 38(c) International Court of Justice; Article 19(1) Protocol relating to the Community Court of Justice 1991.

  14. 14.

    1991 as amended.

  15. 15.

    Article 24(2) Protocol relating to Community Court 1991 as amended.

  16. 16.

    Section 2(4) European Community Act 1972.

  17. 17.

    Article 9 (1) (f) Protocol Relating to the Court as amended.

  18. 18.

    Supra, p. 158, para 54.

  19. 19.

    Ibid.

  20. 20.

    Ibid.

  21. 21.

    Ibid, para 52.

  22. 22.

    2008.

  23. 23.

    ECOWAS Staff Regulation 2005.

  24. 24.

    2005.

  25. 25.

    2005.

  26. 26.

    Oyemade v Executive Secretary 2008 (No 2) supra, p. 84, para 55.

  27. 27.

    Folami v Community Parliament 2010, p. 74, para 20.

  28. 28.

    2008, p. 33, para 15.

  29. 29.

    Ibid., p. 49, para 2.

  30. 30.

    Oyemade v Executive Secretary ECOWAS (No 2) 2008, p. 92, para 71 (c).

  31. 31.

    [2008], p. 115.

  32. 32.

    Ibid.

  33. 33.

    Folami v Community Parliament supra, p. 20.

  34. 34.

    Law and Martin (2009), p. 464.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    Supra.

References

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  2. School of Law, Zenith University College, Accra, Ghana

    Jerry Ukaigwe (Director, Former Lecturer)

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Ukaigwe, J. (2016). Selected-Forum and Community Staff Actions. In: ECOWAS Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26233-8_9

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