Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-12-17: Affaire relative à la demande de décharge du sieur Fritz Deshommes exDirecteur Général du Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances (MEF) pour la périod
Summary: The court's published summary of its judgment of 2015-12-17 in the following case: Affaire relative à la demande de décharge du sieur Fritz Deshommes exDirecteur Général du Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances (MEF) pour la période allant de novembre 1994 à août 1996. The court sat in its financial jurisdiction. The summary gives the facts, the texts applied and the operative ruling. The court publishes these summaries rather than the judgments themselves, and they are most of what is publicly available of Haitian financial and administrative case law.
Key Findings
- The 17 December 2015 decision addressed Fritz Deshommes's discharge request for his period as MEF Director General from November 1994 to August 1996.
- A verification commission went to MEF on 3 December 2015 after correspondence of 1 December 2015 but found that necessary documents were missing under earthquake debris.
- The commission issued a deficiency report because it could not establish a rational and fair management report.
- The instructor found the Court competent in discharge, debit and quitus matters and the request admissible in form.
- The Auditorat noted that Deshommes had been unable to dispose of property under legal mortgage for 19 years and asked the Court to declare him quit toward the Haitian state.
- The Court treated the document loss as force majeure, declared the management quit, granted discharge and ordered the legal mortgage lifted.
How to cite
Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA), Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-12-17: Affaire relative à la demande de décharge du sieur Fritz Deshommes exDirecteur Général du Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances (MEF) pour la périod, https://cscca.gouv.ht/