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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
1/99 | 1999-12-22
Citation pending | 1999-12-21
C wished to acquire a property as an investment, and obtained a loan from the claimant bank to fund the purchase. The loan was secured by a legal charge over C ’ s matrimonial home, a property which was owned jointly...
Citation pending | 1999-12-10
Citation pending | 1999-12-07
B, a 15-year-old boy, repeatedly a sked a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex with him. The girl refused, and B was subsequently charged with inciting a child under the age of 14 to commit an act of gross indecency,...
Citation pending | 1999-11-26
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Reinsurance contract – Defendant insurance company domiciled in Greece reinsured by English reinsurers – Reinsurers issuing proceedings in England seeking...
Citation pending | 1999-11-25
Citation pending | 1999-11-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 inadmissible as evidence in support of the charge of intermeddling; and (iii) the proceedings were quasi -criminal in nature, the a pplicant was bound...
15/99. THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA. CIVIL APPEAL NO. 15 OF 1998 JOHN R. KELLS | 1999-11-18
LAMPTEY, J.A.: The suit now on appeal before this court was commenced pursuant to an order made by Mrs. Akoto -Bamfo, J. (as she then was) dated 23rd February, 1993. That order reads as follows: — “Plaintiffs as...
Citation pending | 1999-11-10
The claimant trustees were freeholders of an a gricultural holding. The holding, together with other land, was demised to tenants, the beneficiaries of the trust, and was in turn demised to a subtenant. Both the...
Citation pending | 1999-11-09
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Contracts between parties domiciled in convention countries – Claimant reinsurers bringing proceedings in England against insurer domiciled in Sweden –...
Citation pending | 1999-11-02
A child, F, was diagnosed as having Rett Syndrome and began to attend a special school maintained by the defendant local authority. F ’ s mother was unhappy with the school. She a ppealed against the local authority ’...
Citation pending | 1999-10-29
Industrial tribunal – Jurisdiction – Remittal of question by Employment Appeal Tribunal – Employee claiming to have been constructively dismissed and bringing industrial tribunal proceedings – Employer contending that...
Citation pending | 1999-10-29
page 206 delivered himself thus: "I have looked with care through the very numerous authorities that have been cited, but it is not necessary for me to go through them. The result a ppears to be this, that it is an...
Citation pending | 1999-10-27
to honour the a rrangement or understanding. It was also necessary that, in reliance on the a rrangement or understanding, the non-a cquiring party should do, or omit to do, something which conferred an a dvantage on...
It is of interest to look at the previous legislation. The Race Relations Act 1968 | 1999-10-26
The a pplicants, employees of a student union and both of black African origin, were expelled from their university. As a result, the a pplicants were not permitted to enter the university premises, including those of...
Citation pending | 1999-10-21
In two cases raising similar issues, the a ppellants were local authority tenants, occupying flats in premises which had been constructed or a dapted for multiple residential occupation. Due to inadequate...
Citation pending | 1999-10-21
A husband and wife purchased a property with the aid of a loan from the a ppellant bank. They granted the bank a legal charge securing all moneys that either or both of them might owe to the bank, and the wife...
Citation pending | 1999-08-20
Citation pending | 1999-07-29
The guild was an unincorporated a ssociation of furniture manufacturing companies. To promote its reputation and the sales of its members, the guild had for many years organised a twice-yearly event, known as the Long...
Citation pending | 1999-07-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 empower or commission somebody to do certain things in connection with his work, yet that person or body did not thereby assume the position of the a...
Citation pending | 1999-07-22
B worked full-time for the respondent bank from July 1979 until she went on maternity leave. In October 1990 she returned to work on a part-time basis, but ceased employment in 1993 after a pplying, and being a...
70/97. | 1999-07-21
J.S.C. · Ms. Akuffo, J.S.C. · 9. NA J.D. YAMYIA TOOKA II, YUNYO RANA · 12. NABA J.A. ATASIGE II, MIREGU NABA · C. HAYFRON -BENJAMIN, J.S.C.: · “fraudulently got himself nominated, elected and installed Effiduasehene”....
5/97 GEOFFREY | 1999-07-14
Q Did you take a statement from Abaidoo | 1999-07-12
12 July 1999 plaintiff false and without justification -Whether plaintiff libeled by defendant -West African Examination Council Law, 1991 (PNDCL 255), .I' 5. Damages – Libel -Assessment -Factors influencing quantum...
Citation pending | 1999-07-09
Contempt of court – Committal – Costs – Respondent committing unwitting and technical breach of court order – Applicant seeking respondent ’ s committal for contempt of court – Appropriate order as to costs.
Citation pending | 1999-06-25
BCCI (the bank) had been insolvent from at least 1986, but concealed its insolvency by systematic fraud on a massive scale, and pressurised its employees to procure friends, family and a ssociates to place deposits...
Citation pending | 1999-06-24
24 June 1999 commission's concurrence to grant without disclosing defendant's adverse claim Whether plaintiff can defeat defendant's earlier grant from stool by obtaining commission' s concurrence - Administration of...
3/96 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE ACCRA Writ No. 3/96 THE | 1999-06-23
On the 31st July, 1998 this Court dismissed the writ of the Commissioner invoking the a ssistance of this Court to resolve an a pparent conflict in the relative positions of the parties vis -a -vis their respective...
Citation pending | 1999-06-21
21 June 1999 shall not be regarded' as invalid by reason of any defect in the composition of the tribunal or in the a ppointment of any member of the tribunal, that provision was inapplicable where, as in the instant...
Citation pending | 1999-06-17
The plaintiff was a ged ten months when a care order was made in favour of the defendant local authority and he remained in care until he was 17. Thereafter, the plaintiff claimed damages for personal injuries, a...
Citation pending | 1999-05-24
justice. but on the grounds that (I) the respondent had been on trial for four and half years since the grant to him of bail pending appeal; and (ii) the circuit cour t registry had not completed preparation of the...
Citation pending | 1999-05-20
20 May 1999 that a ppellant "convicted" for contempt -Meaning of "sentence" in order Significance of a ward of costs against a pplicant -Whether failure to obey an order in civil proceedings a crime ---;Whether appeal...
4/97. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA GHANA Chieftaincy Appeal No. 4/97 OPANIN KWAME FRIMPONG OBAAPANIN AKOSUA ANANEWAAH | 1999-05-19
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: The matter before us to which this opinion relates is supposed to be an appeal against an interlocutory order of the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs. The main issue raised for...
2 | 1999-05-05
5 May 1999 statement [pg 515] of claim and in a ffidavit supporting a pplication -Whether facts on which plaintiff's claim based verified -LN 140A, Order 14, r 2( 1 ) -L/1129. Practice and procedure - Parties -Change...
Citation pending | 1999-04-30
Elections – Parliamentary election – Corrupt practice – MP being found guilty of corrupt practice during election campaign and her seat vacated in consequence – Court of Appeal quashing conviction before seat filled –...
Citation pending | 1999-04-30
claimed, see DODD VS. MARINE WORKERS UNION (1923), 93 L.J. Ch. 65. But even here the · 236, per Adade J.S.C. who delivered the opinion of the court, as follows:” ……… it is r elevant to observe that · (Sgd.) A. A. BENIN...
Citation pending | 1999-04-22
22 April 1999 against the defendant at the High Court, Temil, the evidence established, inter a lia, that the net was wider than 420 fathoms; the a ccident had occurred during a period '1 darkness; and contrary to the...
Citation pending | 1999-04-22
22 April 1999 properly installed fiaga of LTA by kingmakers Whether recognition of TT as fiaga by traditional council constituting contempt of court. Contempt of court -Defence -Performance of statutory duty -Registrar...
Citation pending | 1999-04-22
22 April 1999 properly installed fiaga of LTA by kingmakers Whether recognition of TT as fiaga by traditional council constituting contempt of court. Contempt of court -Defence -Performance of statutory duty -Registrar...
Citation pending | 1999-04-01
1 April 1999 Damages -Quantum -Breach of contract -Agreement to sell goods to respon dent -Test of foreseeability -Assessment by difference between market and contract price -Heads of damages. The respondent bought and...
Citation pending | 1999-03-23
Held – Where a lease was surrendered by operation of law, the extent of the surrender was commensurate with what was necessary to give validity to the transaction the person effecting the surrender was estopped from...
Citation pending | 1999-03-19
Landlord and tenant – Recovery of possession – Order for possession – Assured tenancy – Tenant holding property on a ssured fixed term tenancy – Tenant falling into a rrears and landlord obtaining order for possession...
77/98 IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA Civil Motion No. 77/98 THE REPUBLIC ... APPLICANT Versus | 1999-03-03
J.S.C. · W.A. ATUGUBA J.S.C · SOPHIA AKUFFO (MS.) J.S.C. MOTION NO. 77/98 IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA Civil Motion No. 77/98 THE REPUBLIC ... APPLICANT Versus: THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX PARTE THE ATTORNEY -
15/98. | 1999-03-03
Citation pending | 1999-02-25
25 February 1999 Antigua, When the rice a rrived in the country it was received by the a ppellant and stored in its warehouse, The a ppellant subsequently released 700 metric tonnes of the rice to the respondents. When...
7/96 | 1999-02-17
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs dated 8th May 1991 which a ffirmed the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Central Region House...
Citation pending | 1999-02-15
15 February 1999 diseases in the course of their employment brought an action against the defendant at the High Court, Sekondi for, inter a lia, payment of twenty months' salary each for the sickness. The defendant...
Citation pending | 1999-02-15
15 February 1999 diseases in the course of their employment brought an action against the defendant at the High Court, Sekondi for, inter a lia, payment of twenty months' salary each for the sickness. The defendant...
69/98. No.69/98 BEN K. KUMA AGENT FOR FAROE | 1999-02-10
SOPHIA A.B. AKUFFO, J.S.C.: A brief summary of the background of this a pplication will suffice to place the matter in its proper perspective. Furthermore, in this ruling, we intend to rely upon the record of appeal in...
1/97 IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA GHANA Chieftaincy Appeal No. 1/97 OPANIN KOFI NYAME ABUSUAPANIN OF ADUANA FAMILY - PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT OF SEKYEDUMASE -ASHANTI VERSUS | 1999-02-10
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: This opinion is a concurring contribution to the a ble and erudite opinion about to be read by my brother Acquah, J.S.C. The principle of res judicata is now a well established and a cceptable...