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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1997-12-16
Injunction – Interlocutory – Preservation of proceeds of crime – Extent of court ’ s powers to grant an injunction in favour of the Crown – Defendant benefiting from criminal offence but unlikely that he would be...
Citation pending | 1997-12-09
BFC made an advance of DM30m for the purpose of enabling Parc to repay part of a loan from another bank (RTB) secured by a first charge on its property development land at Battersea. The transaction did not contemplate...
Citation pending | 1997-12-05
Although the Crown Court, in imposing a custodial sentence on a young offender a ged 15, 16 or 17, should not exceed the maximum of 24 months ’ detention in a young offender institution a vailable under s 1Ba of the...
Citation pending | 1997-12-04
4 December 1997 landlord on ground a greement induced by fraudulent representations by a ppellant tenant - Application by a ppellant for reference to a rbitration under a greement dismissed by trial court - Whether...
Citation pending | 1997-11-25
Conflict of laws – Foreign proceedings – Restraint of foreign proceedings – Circumstances in which court will restrain prosecution of foreign proceedings – Plaintiffs seeking injunction from English court to restrain...
Citation pending | 1997-11-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 REPUBLIC v HIGH COURT, KUMASI; EX PARTE APPIAH and Others [1997 -98] 1 GLR 503 Judicial review -Certiorari -Application -Decision of High Court -Scope...
Citation pending | 1997-11-12
apply because the evidence had clearly displaced the inference and rebutted the fact it was seeking to establish, it followed that the recorder had correctly a pplied the law to the facts he found and that he came to...
Citation pending | 1997-11-05
The four a pplicants were former servicewomen who had all been discharged from the a rmed forces when they became pregnant. They claimed compensation and in each case the Ministry of Defence a dmitted liability, the...
Citation pending | 1997-10-16
Practice – Dismissal of action for want of prosecution – Delay – Prejudice to defendant – Inquiry as to damages under cross-undertaking – Delay in presenting inquiry – Application to strike out – Principles to be a...
Citation pending | 1997-10-16
16 October 1997 Criminal law and procedure -Alibi -Failure to give statutory notice -Effect of failure by a ccused to give statutory notice -Alibi notice filed after closure of case by prosecution -No sufficient...
1 | 1997-08-07
Statutory instrument – Rules of court – Power of Rule Committees – Power to make rules giving Act retrospective effect – Supreme Court Rule Committee making rules purporting to apply Civil Evidence Act 1995 to...
Citation pending | 1997-07-31
Citation pending | 1997-07-31
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Contracts between parties domiciled in convention countries – Plaintiffs claiming jurisdiction of English court over defendant domiciled in Sweden –...
15/96. The a pplication for certiorari consisted of a motion paper | 1997-07-28
(2) of C.I. 16 is an a ffidavit The a ffidavit in support of the a pplication for review filed on 28th July, 1997, is said to have been sworn to by AMPIAH, J.S.C.: · ADJABENG, J.S.C: · I agree with the opinion about to...
Citation pending | 1997-07-25
On 14 December 1993 the plaintiff, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, was found guilty of serious disciplinary charges by the institute ’ s disciplinary committee and as a result...
Citation pending | 1997-07-24
Maintenance of action – Identity of maintainer – Disclosure of identity of maintainer – Plaintiff commencing action against defendants for damages for a ssisting or procuring breaches of contract – Plaintiff refusing...
7 | 1997-07-22
The plaintiff, Bristol and West Building Society (the society) commenced a ctions against the defendants, Fancy & Jackson, Read & Rogers, Steggles & Palmer, Baileys Shaw & Gillett, Clearys, Cooke & Borsay, Moroneys and...
Citation pending | 1997-07-03
3 July 1997 for defamation under customary law .. Evidence --Corroboration -Opponent by -False evidence by opponent Claim by plaintiff that defendant beating pan and calling her a "witch" in [pg 731] neighbourhood...
Citation pending | 1997-06-26
26 June 1997 entitled to any other payment -Labour Decree, 1967 (NLCD 167), para 33(8). "191. No person known to the manager to be infected with tuber culosis shall enter or be a llowed to enter the underground working...
Citation pending | 1997-06-25
25 June 1997 granting bail before trial -Refusal of prosecution to disclose grounds for charge against a pplicants -Refusal disabling court from balancing interests of society and those of a pplicants - Whether court...
Citation pending | 1997-06-19
The claimants (the investors) submitted a claim to the Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd (the ICS) for compensation in respect of negligent a dvice provided by brokers who had sold them home income plans in...
177036 dated 17 -7 -92 for authorising the payment of | 1997-05-28
Citation pending | 1997-05-23
Bank – Deposit-taking business – Control by Bank of England – Bank ’ s supervisory role over commercial banks in United Kingdom – Statutory prohibition on disclosure of information received relating to business or a...
Citation pending | 1997-05-16
16 May 1997 and benefits due each plaintiff. The plaintiffs were former employees of the defendant company. They were found to be surplus to the manpower requirements of the defendant. They were therefore disengaged in...
19592/92 are nearing completion and that the a ssigned trial judge | 1997-05-08
Execution – Equitable execution – Receiver – Jurisdiction – Cross-undertaking in damages for the benefit of third party – Bank obtaining judgment on guarantee and a ppointing receiver in respect of indemnity – Parties...
Citation pending | 1997-05-05
5 May 1997 of trespass on the land in dispute at the High Court. In granting an a pplication for bail by the a ccused persons. the circuit tribunal restrained the complainant and the a ccused persons from entering the...
Citation pending | 1997-04-30
Revenue -Customs and excise -Forfeiture of vehicle -Plaintiffs vehicle used in carrying uncustomed goods from Togo -Notice of claim and of lack of knowledge that goods uncustomed served by plaintiff on defendant...
Citation pending | 1997-04-25
15.1 In recent months this court has held that automatic directions are ousted if an interlocutory judgment is entered on all the issues of liability in the action (see Gomes v Clark (1997) Times, 27 March), or if an...
Citation pending | 1997-04-25
Contempt – Criminal contempt – Interference with due a dministration of justice – Court ordering documents subject to public interest immunity to be disclosed to defendants for purposes of impending criminal appeal...
5/99 | 1997-04-18
ACQUAH, J.S.C.: This is a reference from the Circuit Court, Accra, for the determination of the following issues: 1. Whether or not the deconfiscation order directed by the President of the 4th Republic through the...
Citation pending | 1997-04-16
16 April 1997 lawful -Industrial Relations Act, 1965 (Act 299), s 23. Damages -Quantum -Wrongful dismissal - Plaintiffs wrongfully dismissed by defendant company after interdiction -Plaintiffs' entitlements .. The four...
Citation pending | 1997-04-10
10 April 1997 Customary law -Stool land -Ash a nti stool land -Alienation -Right of a lienation vested in owner of possessory title -1916 judgment declaring Ahwiaa stool holders of possessory title in Ahwiaa land of...
2 | 1997-03-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Cap /76 (1951 Rev), 01' 2(b) -Finan cial institutions (Non -Banking) Law, 1993 (PNDCL 328) -High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (LN 140A), Order...
Citation pending | 1997-03-25
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 a lmost 18. Whilst in care, he was moved on nine different occasions between...
Citation pending | 1997-03-19
The a ppellant, who was the principal beneficiary of a settlement made in 1984 of which the respondents were the trustees, brought an action for breach of trust against the trustees. She a lleged in her statement of...
Citation pending | 1997-03-18
Mortgage – Sale – Duty of mortgagee – Standard of duty in exercising power of sale – Security including business – Duty to ensure that value of combined a sset maximised – Duty to take into account effect of sale on...
Citation pending | 1997-03-18
criminal libel contrary to section 112 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). A preliminary legal objection raised by the a ccused persons to the jurisdiction of the court and the propriety of the charge was dismissed by...
Citation pending | 1997-03-13
13 March 1997 Customary law -Stool land -Alienation -Only chief and principal elders can validly a lienate stool land -Plailltiffs not the only stool elders of Appolonia -Plaintiffs voluntarily a bsenting themselves...
Citation pending | 1997-03-10
Injunction – Post-judgment – Injunction restraining defendant from leaving jurisdiction – Consent order disposing of action brought by husband and providing for husband to pay wife ’ s costs – Husband failing to pay...
Citation pending | 1997-03-07
7 March 1997 The petitioner was the wife of the respondent. The parties were Ghanaians by birth but had lived in America resident visa. Following differences between them, the petitioner filed for divorce. The...
Citation pending | 1997-02-13
The a pplicants, A, N, L and R, a pplied for a sylum in the United Kingdom. Under art 1A(2)a of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees the term ‘ refugee ’ a pplied to any person who ‘ owing to well-founded...
Citation pending | 1997-01-24
Held – On an a pplication for a hackney carriage licence, the local authority or licensing justices (the judicial authority), when deciding whether, exceptionally, to admit in evidence spent convictions under s 7(3)b...
Citation pending | 1997-01-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 would be quashed by certiorari. Republic v Aso kore Traditional Council; Ex parte Tiwaa [1976] 2 GLR 231, fact that respondents pronounced the a...
Citation pending | 1997-01-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 MENSAH v ATTORNEY -GENERAL [1997 -98] 1 GLR 227 -281 Provision on termination of a ppointment Provision a pplicable within tenure of office of...
Citation pending | 1996-12-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Commissioner of Inland Revenue. In re Nathan [1884] 12 QBD 461; R v Charity Commissioner for a rticle 23 of the Constitution, 1992 provided that in...
Citation pending | 1996-12-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Commissioner of Inland Revenue. In re Nathan [1884] 12 QBD 461; R v Charity Commissioner for a rticle 23 of the Constitution, 1992 provided that in...
Citation pending | 1996-12-18
The four complainants, who were former employees of B plc, a pplied to transfer the value of their a ccrued pension benefits pursuant to their right under Pt II of Sch 1A to the Social Security Pensions Act 1975. Their...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
The a ppellants (the three plaintiffs and the pursuer) were passengers on a scheduled international flight operated by the respondent airline (BA) which left London on 1 August 1990 for Malaysia via Kuwait. On 2 August...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
The a ppellant, who is a natural child of the deceased, Dr Gustav Koranteng -Addow, a pplied for letters of a dministration to a dminister his estate. The respondent, a paternal brother of the deceased, caveated. After...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
Benin JA delivered the first judgment at the invitation of Lamptey JA. Madam Agyina Osumanu, the plaintiff -respondent (herein -after called the plaintiff) sued her husband, Atta Osumanu, the first defendant, and Jacob...