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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 2002-11-05
The complainant was a male to female transsexual who a pplied to become a police constable. She was a ssessed and tested in the normal way, and was told that she was successful at each stage. A month later, however,...
Citation pending | 2002-10-31
Practice – Appeal – Power of appeal court to impose conditions on bringing of appeal where there was ‘ compelling reason ’ to do so – Whether a vailability to successful party of normal enforcement provisions in itself...
Citation pending | 2002-10-25
Immigration – Appeal – Deportation – Detention pending deportation – Statutory power to detain non-nationals suspected of terrorism – Whether power constituting lawful derogation from right to liberty – Human Rights...
Citation pending | 2002-10-23
suffered. It followed in the instant case that an action would lie if D had committed a murder in circumstances in which the defendants knew or should have known that he was likely to do so. Thus the a verment that the...
Citation pending | 2002-07-30
The claimant took out a mortgage on her flat with the building society predecessor of the defendant bank. Another bank obtained judgment against her for a debt of some £5,000 and obtained a charging order on the flat....
38/2002 | 2002-07-24
J.S.C. · ADZOE, J.S.C. · AFREH, J.S.C. · 4. J. A. OBBIN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA. CM NO. 38/2002 1. OPANIN KWEKU ANSAH .. PLAINTIFFS/RESP./APPLICANTS 2. OPANIN NYANIHUBE 3. SAFIGEBE KWEKU AFO 5. OPANYIN KOJO ANNAN 6....
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 P. S. INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 2002-07-24
Citation pending | 2002-07-22
Divorce – Property – Adjustment order – Matrimonial home – Confiscation proceedings – Whether court precluded from granting wife property a djustment order in relation to property that was subject to proceedings to...
Citation pending | 2002-07-17
Contempt of court – Appeal – Appeal against committal order or other order made in exercise of jurisdiction to punish for contempt – Routes of appeal from such orders – Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13 – Access...
Citation pending | 2002-07-03
Claim form – Service – Deemed day of service – Rule of procedure establishing deemed day of service of documents – Whether irrebuttability of deemed day of service incompatible with right of access to court – Whether...
14/2001 | 2002-07-03
MRS. JUSTICE J. BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the Judgment of the Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement Commission Appeal Tribunal delivered at Accra on the 21st day of May 1992. The said Judgment stemmed...
Citation pending | 2002-06-27
Contempt of court – Refusal to disclose source of information – Journalist – Disclosure necessary in interests of justice – Circumstances in which court can order journalist to disclose source – Contempt of Court Act...
8/2001 | 2002-05-29
T. K. ADZOE, J.S.C.: reversed the trial High Court's judgment in favour of the plaintiff/respondent/a ppellant whom we shall hereafter refer to simply as the a ppellant. The defendants/a ppellants/respondents will...
Citation pending | 2002-05-20
Receiver – Appointed by court – Remuneration – Receiver a ppointed to preserve a ssets of defendant who might become subject to confiscation order – Whether receiver entitled to use a ssets of unconvicted or a cquitted...
6/2002 | 2002-05-18
AMPIAH, J.S.C.: On 11th February, 2002, this Court by a majority of 5 to 4 gave judgment for the plaintiff herein in a suit entitled, "Tsatsu Tsikata VRS. Attorney -General" — Writ No. 2/2002. Whereupon the Attorney -...
37/2001 WASSEM ATTIEH ... PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
3/2000 | 2002-04-24
37/2001. | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
15/2001. | 2002-04-02
Citation pending | 2002-03-27
Contempt of court – Committal – Jurisdiction – Execution of warrant for possession – Whether warrant for possession a nullity if issued before date on which possession to be given up – Whether penal notice having to be...
Citation pending | 2002-03-11
The claimant, a Premier League footballer with a responsible position at his club, was a married man with children. He had transient a dulterous relationships with the second defendant, C, and another woman, D, who...
Citation pending | 2002-03-01
The complainant brought a complaint to an employment tribunal of unfair dismissal and race discrimination against her former employer. Shortly a fterwards, she wrote to the tribunal to withdraw her a pplication. The...
Citation pending | 2002-02-26
In 1872, C, the owner of an estate in Somerset, conveyed, under s 2a of the School Sites Act 1841, part of the estate to the rector of a local parish to be used for the purposes of that Act, ie as the site for a...
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 MARTIN ALAMISI AMIDU v. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER AND ANO. | 2002-01-30
SOPHIA A. B. AKUFFO, J.S.C.: On 7th December 2000, the 1st defendant conducted Parliamentary elections throughout the country. Subsequent to these elections, the results were formally published in Ghana Gazette Number...
Citation pending | 2001-12-21
In three separate multi-party a ctions, cost-sharing orders were made under CPR 48.6A, a provision which related to costs where group litigation orders had been made. Each order, inter a lia, defined ‘ individual costs...
Citation pending | 2001-12-20
In the course of an a pplication by the claimant for summary judgment, the master saw certain ‘ without prejudice ’ correspondence in which the defendant stated that it would accept judgment being given for a...
Citation pending | 2001-12-20
The claimant was the trustee of a centralised ‘ industry-wide ’ pension scheme for non-a ssociated employers in the construction industry. The scheme was divided into different sections, with each section representing...
Citation pending | 2001-12-18
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Freezing order – Worldwide freezing order – Pre-trial order – Extra-territorial effect of order – Protection of third parties – Freezing order in standard form – Proviso...
Citation pending | 2001-12-14
Housing – Homeless person – Duty of housing authority to provide a ccommodation – Appeals procedure – Local authority reviewing officer not an independent and impartial tribunal – Applicant having right of appeal on...
Citation pending | 2001-12-14
Housing – Homeless person – Duty of housing authority to provide a ccommodation – Appeals procedure – Local authority reviewing officer not an independent and impartial tribunal – Applicant having right of appeal on...
Citation pending | 2001-12-13
The defendants, M and G, formed a business partnership to acquire and develop properties. In order to pursue that enterprise, they jointly borrowed money from companies in the claimant banking group (the bank). M also...
6/2000 YAW TAWIAH ... PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT/RESPONDENT VRS. 1. OPANIN KWADWO BAAH 2. OSEI YAW | 2001-12-12
T.K. ADZOE, J.S.C.: Isaac Ottie a lias Agya Atta died on 10th August, 1982. He hailed from Kenkase, Kwabre No. 3 in Ashanti. He left behind a Will dated 26th January, 1982. In the Will he devised houses and farms to...
Citation pending | 2001-11-26
The claimant was an Australian national of Lebanese origin and owned a house in Australia. In February 2000 the claimant, who was then resident in Athens and had no connections with the United Kingdom, brought...
Citation pending | 2001-11-23
The a ppellants, Syed Badshah Nawab Husain and Iqbal Zafar, former employees of the respondent, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in liquidation) (BCCI), a ppealed with permission of the Court of Appeal...
Citation pending | 2001-11-08
The claimant was the tenant of premises partly occupied by a building which had been erected in a ccordance with cl 2(iii)(a) of a development lease granted by the predecessor in title of the defendant landlord. Clause...
Citation pending | 2001-10-10
The second defendant, as employer, entered into a building contract with the first defendant, as main contractor. In its turn, the contractor entered into a contract with the claimant sub-contractor by which the latter...
Citation pending | 2001-09-21
High Court – Jurisdiction – Injunction – Injunction to protect integrity of a dministration of justice – Attorney General seeking injunction barring vexatious litigant from entering Royal Courts of Justice without...
Citation pending | 2001-09-10
The claimant, A, was a professional footballer and a married man with a family. He had extra-marital a ffairs with two women, C and D, who sold their stories to the defendant newspaper. After learning that the...
14/2000 1. AYAHUASCA ADAMS | 2001-07-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff gave evidence and called four witnesses including two members of Manche Ankrah family. The defendant gave evidence but did not call any...
14/2000 25TH JULY | 2001-07-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 draw a ttention to the fact that the plaintiff sought a declaration of title and recovery of possession of the land in dispute the defendant and co...
Citation pending | 2001-07-18
Copyright – Infringement – Defence – Right to freedom of expression – Whether court having to consider facts of individual case when determining whether copyright protection infringing right to freedom of expression...
Citation pending | 2001-07-17
The a ppellant, B, was correctly classified at birth as male, but underwent gender reassignment surgery which was completed in 1981. That year B went through a ceremony of marriage with a man who was at all times a...
Citation pending | 2001-07-05
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Freezing order – Worldwide freezing order – Pre-trial order – Extra-territorial effect of order – Protection of third parties – Proviso protecting third parties in respect...
Citation pending | 2001-06-28
Held – The right found to exist by the judge was not capable of being an easement. The claimant had no use of the land for parking during the whole of the time that parking space was likely to be needed. Moreover, his...
Citation pending | 2001-06-28
the social security appeal tribunal rejected B ’ s claims, but they were a llowed by the social security commissioner. His decision was reversed by the Court of Appeal, and B a ppealed to the House of Lords.
Citation pending | 2001-05-17
empowered by law; it formed part of the church by law established; and its functions included the enforcement through the courts of a common law liability to maintain its chancels resting upon persons who need not be...
15/2000. | 2001-05-16
3/2000. | 2001-05-09
judgment of the trial High Court. The brief facts are that the plaintiff a businessman doing business under the name of Attieh Agencies issued a writ at the High Court against Koglex (Gh) Ltd and its Managing Director,...
768/97 issued a writ at at the Accra High Court against Mr. Brenya as 1st Defendant | 2001-05-08
REASONS FOR JUDGEMENT 2001. We reserved our reasons which we now proceed to deliver. Towards the latter part of the 1980's J ohn K. Dolphyne took out a writ of summons at the Sekondi Circuit Court against Speedline...
768/97 issued a writ at at the Accra High Court against Mr. Brenya as 1st Defendant and Mrs. Brenya as 2nd Defendant. Speedline Stevedoring Co which was 2nd plaintiff in this suit was removed and made a 3rd defendant. The reliefs claimed by Mr. Dolphyne were | 2001-05-08
Mr. Antonio Casto Barcom and Mr. J.K. Dolphyne should take over the management of the · J. A. BAMFORD -ADDO (MRS) STEVEDORING COMPANY [19/06/01] CM 16/2001. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA — GHANA THE REPUBLIC VRS. THE HIGH...