AG-CHRAJ battle...CHRAJ victors still waiting

The Public Agenda says several people, whose cases of wrongful dismissals were upheld by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), are still waiting to be re-instated, more than four years after the commission's decision.

The paper in its top story, says that CHRAJ after hearing a number of cases involving people who said they were wrongfully dismissed during the military rule of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) decided that they should be re- instated. According to the Public Agenda, the CHRAJ victors have become victims of a legal battle between the Attorney- General and the commission.

The Attorney-General is said to have challenged CHRAJ's authority to investigate cases that occurred before constitutional rule in 1993.

The paper says the Supreme Court presided over by Mr Justice Hayfron-Benjamin, on July 11 1998, dismissed the Attorney- General's writ, adding that more than a year after the ruling, nothing has changed for the many people waiting for justice.