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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1995-10-12
tlocal authorities. In respect of each transaction, BMI would enter into a master equipment lease with a local authority and schedules specifying the equipment to be installed and the precise terms on which it was to...
Citation pending | 1995-10-12
The a ppellants were separately tried in the Crown Court for unrelated offences shortly after s 35a of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 came into force on 10 April 1995. That section a llowed the court or...
4/96. | 1995-08-16
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: This appeal is from the decision of the Chieftaincy Tribunal of the National House of Chiefs dated 16th August, 1995. This judgment by a majority of 3 to 2 a ffirmed the decision of the Ashanti...
Citation pending | 1995-07-07
Held – (1) On an a pplication under RSC Ord 82, r 3A, the central question for the court was whether a reasonable man could construe the words a llegedly used as being defamatory. In the circumstances, the words used...
Citation pending | 1995-07-06
Citation pending | 1995-07-06
(2) Where the dominant purpose of legal a dvice was not to explain the legal effect of what had already been done and had subsequently become the subject of existing or imminent litigation, but to structure a...
Citation pending | 1995-07-06
The a ppellant came to England from Ghana in 1980. In 1991 she was forced by the man she was then living with to leave the house she shared with him. She was temporarily housed by her local housing authority in a ‘...
Citation pending | 1995-06-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 The basis for the plaintiffs' reliefs are contained in paragraphs (4) -(10) of their statement of claim, which read: "(4) According to a rticle 18 (IV)...
Citation pending | 1995-06-15
The three respondents were charged with fraudulent evasion of income tax and value a dded tax. At their trial the first respondent ’ s defence was that he had been misled by one of his co-defendants. He did not give...
Citation pending | 1995-06-07
Crown – Prerogative – Review of exercise of prerogative power by court – Power exercised under prerogative preserved by statute – Policy decision by Minister of Defence prohibiting homosexual persons from serving in a...
Citation pending | 1995-06-06
The a pplicants, Egyptian nationals resident in London, were employed under contracts of employment made in the United Kingdom as drivers at the medical office of the Egyptian Embassy. The medical office, which was...
6/93 dated 23rd May 1995. | 1995-05-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 court in Obeng Manu (Jnr.) v. the Attorney General (Writ no. 6/93 dated 23rd May 1995.) In deciding on this issue, reference may be made to the...
Citation pending | 1995-05-22
By originating summons dated 27 November 1992 the plaintiffs, Aratra Potato Co Ltd and Dr Fawzi Ahmed Abou Ismail, sought the determination of certain questions a rising from their retainer of the defendant firm of...
Citation pending | 1995-05-12
Held – Where the plaintiff ’ s loss resulting from the defendant ’ s negligence depended on the hypothetical action of a third party, either in a ddition to action by the plaintiff or independently of it, the issue...
Citation pending | 1995-04-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 ACHEAMPONG v THE REPUBLIC [1997 -98 ] G.L.R 26 -42 Courts -Court of Appeal -Jurisdiction -Setting a side void judgment -Re view a pplication fresh case...
Members note that as a high profile port | 1995-04-12
intervention of a nimal rights a ctivists. Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) intervened under the provisions of RSC Ord 53, r 9(1). The facts are set out in the judgment of the court.
Citation pending | 1995-04-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BIN and Others v ABBAN [1999 -2000j [GLR 194 -198 Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (Cl16), r 22 The second a ppellant, the queen mother of Banda in the Central...
Citation pending | 1995-04-10
In September 1989 B, the registered proprietor of a property, charged it to a building society. In August 1990 B exchanged contracts for the sale of the property to purchasers who had obtained an offer of mortgage from...
Citation pending | 1995-04-06
This is an appeal against the judgment of the National Public Tribunal sitting at the old State House, Accra on 9 January 1991. In that judgment, the a ppellant and another a ccused person were convicted of conspiracy...
Citation pending | 1995-03-30
The late Amos Thomas Yalley, by his will, disposed of house No 27/2, Ahanta Road, Takoradi as his personal property. This sparked off a legal dispute between the plaintiff -respondents [p.94] (hereinafter referred to...
Citation pending | 1995-03-22
The defendant carriers, Air Europe (a firm), a ppealed from the preliminary ruling of Phillips J, sitting in the Commercial Court on 18 December 1992 ([1993] 4 AllER 469), in favour of the plaintiffs, Antwerp United...
We do not have any such power. The Constitution | 1995-02-15
On 16 October 1995 the plaintiff, the Ghana Bar Association, issued out of this court a writ in which she seeks to invoke the original jurisdiction of this court. The reliefs indorsed on the writ are as follows: "(1) A...
We do not have any such power. The Constitution | 1995-02-01
The issue involved in this a pplication is the determination of the court or tribunal to entertain a ppeals by a ggrieved parties in [p.555] cases tried between 7 January 1993 and 6 July 1993, under section 7(1) of the...
The witness was not by h is evidence | 1995-01-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 Jackson Duodu and Emmanuel Arhin a lias Pall Mall were at the material time in 1983, lance corporals in the Ghana Prison Service. Their duty post was...
Citation pending | 1995-01-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (1) R v Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal; Ex part~ Shaw [1952] 1 KB 338; [1952] 1 All decision of the High Court, Sunyani ordering the...
Citation pending | 1995-01-19
This is an appeal against the decision of Berko J sitting at the High Court, Kumasi delivered on 28 July 1987. The bare facts of the case are that a testatrix, Madam Afua Mansah, devised her portion in house No OT 77,...
Citation pending | 1994-12-22
This is an appeal against the judgment of the National [p.405] Public Tribunal dated 3 April 1991 wherein the a ppellant was convicted for possessing narcotic drugs contrary to section 2(1) and (2) of the Narcotic...
Citation pending | 1994-12-21
(3) However, once the deceased had collapsed and was no longer capable of looking after himself and the defendant had a ssumed responsibility for his care, it was a ccepted by the defendant that the measures taken fell...
Citation pending | 1994-12-20
On 28 January 1991 the plaintiff, a citizen of New Zealand, was a rrested in South Africa and put on an aircraft bound for London, where he was a rrested and charged with offences under the Theft Act 1968. The...
Citation pending | 1994-12-19
Per curiam. A case is only authority for the decision of law it contains. If the relevant decision is a decision on a matter of fact, a different court is at liberty to reach a different decision. If the relevant...
5/98. | 1994-12-12
MRS. J. BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: The plaintiff issued a Writ to invoke the Original Jurisdiction of this court seeking the interpretation of the Constitution and a declaration "that Section 15 of the Divestiture of State...
Citation pending | 1994-11-29
Held – (1) Although by s 3(2)(b) of the 1983 Act a patient with a psychopathic disorder could not be detained unless the proposed treatment, taken as a whole, was ‘ likely to a lleviate or prevent a deterioration of...
Citation pending | 1994-11-23
The Court of Appeal is, in general, sparing in its grant of a pplications for the expedited hearing of a ppeals and imposes a high threshold which a party must cross before an a pplication will be granted. However, the...
Citation pending | 1994-11-23
Held – (Hobhouse LJ dissenting) Where a bank made a loan to a company to be secured by, inter a lia, a personal guarantee and a second charge over the matrimonial home of the guarantor and his wife, the bank was...
Citation pending | 1994-11-09
Divorce – Foreign decree – Recognition by English court – Overseas divorce – Jewish get divorce – Husband and wife Israeli nationals – Husband resident in United Kingdom – Get drawn up in London in a ccordance with...
Citation pending | 1994-11-07
In two separate a ppeals the question a rose whether, if an employer offered employees a pay rise as an inducement to switch from collective bargaining to individual contracts, that a mounted to ‘ action … taken...
Citation pending | 1994-10-27
one case a psychiatrist and a social worker interviewed a child suspected of having been sexually a bused and wrongly a ssumed from the name given by the child that the a buser was the mother ’ s current boyfriend, who...
Citation pending | 1994-10-25
The plaintiff firm a pplied for an order under s 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to set a side, as transactions defrauding creditors, two settlements made by the first defendant, a former partner in the plaintiff firm,...
Citation pending | 1994-10-04
The 114 respondents were members of a religious sect who took part in an a rmed insurrection in Trinidad and Tobago between 27 July and 1 August 1990 with the aim of overthrowing the lawful government of the country....
5/99. | 1994-09-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 In due course NII TETTEH OTU II of Kpone was joined as Co -Defendant (now also Co - Respondent). The necessary processes were filed by all the parties...
Citation pending | 1994-08-03
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Worldwide Mareva injunction – Pre-trial injunction – Consent order – Plaintiff obtaining interim relief in aid of substantive action proceeding in...
Citation pending | 1994-07-29
Practice – Dismissal of counterclaim for want of prosecution – Inordinate delay without excuse – Delay in prosecuting counterclaim – No steps taken by either party for over three years – Defendant by counterclaim...
Citation pending | 1994-07-22
Set-off – Cross-claim – Legal right of set-off – Claim and cross-claim – Independent transactions – Cross-claim subject of pending a rbitration proceedings – Whether cross-claim capable of being set off against claim...
Citation pending | 1994-07-19
Delivered the judgment of the court. In this case the plaintiff is seeking two reliefs, namely: “(1) a declaration that as a retired judge of the High Court under the Constitution, 1992 he is entitled to a pension...
Citation pending | 1994-07-07
South Hams District Council a ppealed with leave of the House of Lords against the decision of the Divisional Court of the Queen ’ s Bench Division (Simon Brown LJ and Buckley J) delivered on 8 October 1993 a llowing...
Citation pending | 1994-06-23
In the first appeal a bank sponsored a business expansion scheme under which five companies were incorporated for the purpose of purchasing from the bank dwelling houses repossessed by it. By a prospectus published on...
Citation pending | 1994-06-22
Discovery – Discovery on summons for directions – Limitation of discovery – Split trial as to liability and quantum – Court ’ s jurisdiction to order limitation of discovery – Whether discovery should be limited to...
Citation pending | 1994-05-27
County court – Arbitration – Reference of proceedings to a rbitration – Automatic reference – Suitability of claims for a rbitration – Claims against employers seeking damages for minor injuries sustained in workplace...
Citation pending | 1994-05-18
18 May 1994 respondents, the customary successor and members of their late father's family, had prevented them from a dministering the estate, brought an action against them before the High Court,
Whatever a rguments exist for a pportionment in other categories of case | 1994-05-06
Held – Contributory negligence was not a defence to a claim for damages founded on a strict contractual obligation. Accordingly, where a party ’ s liability a rose from breach of a contractual provision which did not...