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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1994-05-06
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Substantial risk of serious prejudice to fair trial – Accused charged with murder – Respondents broadcasting or publishing details of a ccused ’ s...
18/93 | 1994-05-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Suit No. 18/93 (unreported) dated 8/3/94. The issue a gain a rose in the case of G.B.A. VRS. ATTORNEY - the Constitution can be challenged in the...
18/93 | 1994-05-03
of G.B.A. VRS. ATTORNEY -GENERAL the Constitution can be challenged in the Supreme Court under Article 2 to which the immunity of the President 3rd May, 1994 where this court in a 3 to 2 majority decision interpreted a...
Citation pending | 1994-04-29
In the second action the plaintiff, M, brought proceedings against a local education authority claiming damages for negligence on the grounds that the headmaster of the local primary school which he had a ttended had...
Citation pending | 1994-04-29
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Worldwide Mareva injunction – Pre-trial injunction – Counterclaim – Jurisdiction – Plaintiff obtaining interim relief in aid of substantive action...
Citation pending | 1994-04-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 NYAME v KESE a lias KONTO [1999 -2000] 1 GLR 236 -282 Nature of proof{ -chieftaincy dis pute between Oyoko and Aduana families -chieftaincy tribunals...
Citation pending | 1994-03-11
(6) Whether the duty of care owed by the managing a gents in respect of the run-off reinsurance also extended to names who were not members of the syndicate until after the run-off reinsurance was effected, ie the...
Citation pending | 1994-02-10
On further consideration of the cause Scher and ors v Policyholders Protection Board and ors (Nos 1 and 2), Ackman and ors v Policyholders Protection Board and ors (Nos 1 and 2) [1993] 3 AllER 384, [1993] 4 AllER 840,...
Citation pending | 1994-01-18
Citation pending | 1993-12-23
23 DECEMBER 1993 neither posted on the notice board nor gazetted as required by the Court of Appeal Rules 1962 (LI 218) rule 3. Counsel for the plaintiff maintained that the cause list was duly gazetted and insisted on...
Citation pending | 1993-12-21
Solicitor – Payment of costs by solicitor personally – Costs incurred unreasonably or improperly – Jurisdiction to order solicitor to pay wasted costs – Exercise of jurisdiction – Legal representatives ordered to pay...
Citation pending | 1993-12-21
Held – (1) The guiding principle in giving leave to a mend was that all a mendments should be a llowed at any stage in the proceedings to enable all issues between the parties to be determined, provided that the a...
Citation pending | 1993-12-16
16 DECEMBER 1993 a ward. The wife, married under customary law, filed a petition against her husband in the High Court for dissolution of her marriage, financial provision and a declaration that she had a beneficial...
Citation pending | 1993-12-09
Discovery – Production of documents – Privilege – Public interest – Disclosure a lleged to be injurious to public interest – Certificate signed by Secretary of State claiming immunity from disclosure on ground of...
Citation pending | 1993-12-09
9 DECEMBER 1993 interfering with his enjoyment of the property. He then a pplied to dismiss the plaintiffs’ action on the ground that the location of the disputed property had been declared a registration district...
Citation pending | 1993-12-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 in Kasser v Raziel Construction Ltd [1993 -94] I GLR 332 at 340, SC cited. Amar v Mireku, Court of Appeal, 9 December 1993, unreported and Paul v IGIC...
Citation pending | 1993-12-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 On 26 October 1985 the a ccused a ttended a funeral at Droboso and so did the wife and the deceased. According to the a ccused, he watched in a nger as...
Citation pending | 1993-12-06
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Disclosure by newspaper of secrets of jury room – Jurors giving opinions regarding trial to third party – Third party revealing information to journalist...
Citation pending | 1993-11-22
the claimant is a ‘ policyholder ’ as defined in s 96(1)c of the Insurance Companies Act 1982, ie he is either (a) the legal holder of the policy or (b) ‘ a person to whom, under [the] policy, a sum is due ’ , (3) if...
Citation pending | 1993-11-18
18 NOVEMBER 1993 The plaintiff pleaded that the land on which the house stood was jointly a cquired by Salome Nketia and Salome Obenewaah. He explained in his testimony that the plot was purchased in the name of the...
18 | 1993-11-17
Practice – Striking out – Action – Action brought in wrong court – Action wrongly brought in High Court – Transfer of action to county court – Exercise of discretion – Whether High Court judge having discretion to...
2 of 1952 | 1993-11-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 On 25 February 1992 Mrs Vida Akoto -Bamfo J presiding over the High Court, Accra gave judgment for the plaintiff. It is from that judgment that the...
Citation pending | 1993-11-02
The Privy Council has an a ppellate jurisdiction derived solely from s 3 of the Judicial Committee Act 1833 and s 1 of the Judicial Committee Act 1844. It has no jurisdiction derived from the royal prerogative or...
Citation pending | 1993-11-01
Precedent – New Zealand Court of Appeal – Departure from decision of English Court of Appeal – Whether New Zealand Court of Appeal free to review English Court of Appeal authority and to depart from it if considered...
Citation pending | 1993-10-22
prisoners introduced by the 1991 Act and (iii) that the Home Secretary ’ s policy not to certify discretionary life sentence prisoners who had been transferred to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 for review by...
Citation pending | 1993-10-21
The husband, a shareholder in a manufacturing company which had a substantial unsecured overdraft, a rranged with the manager of the company ’ s bank that the company would be a llowed an overdraft facility of...
Citation pending | 1993-10-08
Immigration – Leave to enter – Refugee – Asylum – Deportation back to third country – Home Secretary ’ s certificate that a pplicant ’ s claim that removal from United Kingdom would breach the 1951 Convention on...
The prohibition is | 1993-09-29
Mortgage – Sale – Power to authorise sale – Jurisdiction – Whether court should sanction sale where mortgagee having full power to affect sale without order and purchaser having statutory protection – Law of Property...
Is the learned Attorney -General saying that by | 1993-08-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 The plaintiff is a registered political party. The first defendant, the Electoral Commission, by virtue of the Electoral Commission Act, 1993 (Act 451),...
Citation pending | 1993-08-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 "(a) A declaration that upon the true and proper interpretation of section 34 of the transitional provisions of the Constitution, 1992 only: (i) a cts...
I would therefore dismiss the appeal by McAlpines and the cross-appeal by Investments | 1993-07-22
In the first appeal the leaseholder of certain premises entered into a building contract with the second defendants in the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract (Private Edition with Approximate Quantities, 1975) for...
Citation pending | 1993-07-08
This is an appeal from the ruling of Sampson J sitting at the High Court, Accra by which he set a side the judgment of Dove J in this case. I should mention at the very beginning that at the time the a pplication to...
Citation pending | 1993-07-01
Capital transfer tax – Composite transaction to take a dvantage of exemptions and reliefs – Preordained series of transactions – Discretionary trust under will – Appointment of residue – Scheme to take a dvantage of...
2/93 dated 28/6/93 S.C. unreported. | 1993-06-28
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Court case of The People v. Surpong and others No.2/93 dated 28/6/93 S.C. unreported. The a pplicants apply to this Court for what would seem to be an...
Citation pending | 1993-06-24
Board, the board recommended release and he had consulted the trial judge (if a vailable) and the Lord Chief Justice that he then had power to release the prisoner, but he was not bound to exercise that power. On the...
Citation pending | 1993-06-24
Extradition – Disguised extradition – Deportation to United Kingdom – Applicant a rrested in South Africa and put on aircraft bound for England – Applicant a rrested on a rrival in England and charged – Applicant a...
Citation pending | 1993-06-24
24 JUNE 1993 relied on circumstantial evidence to implicate the a ppellant. In his caution statement to the police, the a ppellant claimed that the gun went off a ccidentally in a struggle and killed the deceased. In...
Citation pending | 1993-06-22
The a ppellant, Nana Oppong Sarfo Agyemang II, is the chief of Bawere in the Ashanti Region. On 5 August 1991 he was a rraigned before the Circuit Court, Kumasi on a charge of stealing "three wooden electric poles...
Citation pending | 1993-06-17
Held – The purpose of the 1972 Act was to give notice of contracts creating interests in land, and since the original option created an equitable interest in land that interest had not been a ltered or superseded by...
3 | 1993-06-03
This is an a pplication by the a pplicants herein seeking an order: "staying all proceedings in the court below in this suit pending the hearing and final determination by this court of the appeal herein filed on 8...
3 | 1993-06-03
This is an a pplication by the a pplicants herein seeking an order: "staying all proceedings in the court below in this suit pending the hearing and final determination by this court of the appeal herein filed on 8...
Citation pending | 1993-05-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Dictum of Lord Dunedin in Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage and Motor Co Ltd [19 I 5] AC 79 at ¢41,~50,000 being the balance of the deposit he...
Citation pending | 1993-05-21
21 MAY 1993 recovery of possession of the land. Pleadings were filed and hearing commenced. Before the plaintiff closed his case, the defendant filed an a pplication for the dismissal of the claim on a dmissions by the...
Citation pending | 1993-05-19
The first respondent was charged in Hong Kong with contravening s 30a of the Hong Kong Summary Offences Ordinance, which provided that a person charged with ‘ having in his possession or conveying in any manner a...
Citation pending | 1993-05-17
One Isaac Nkansah Appau died intestate on 6 January 1988. He left behind a widow with whom he had three children and a fourth child by another woman. All the children were minors when he died. Not long after he had...
Citation pending | 1993-04-30
Hamptons Residential, a private unlimited company and the defendant in four a ctions brought by the Alliance and Leicester Building Society and Mercantile Credit Co Ltd claiming that Hamptons were vicariously liable...
Citation pending | 1993-04-26
The a ppellant was convicted by the National Public Tribunal, Accra on 26 April 1993 on charges of (a) importation of narcotic drugs contrary to section 1(1) of the Narcotic Drugs (Control, Enforcement and Sanctions)...
Citation pending | 1993-04-08
The a ppellant was tried, convicted and sentenced for the offence of murder. Aggrieved by the conviction and sentence, he a ppealed to this court. Only one ground of appeal was filed on his behalf. It was that the...
Citation pending | 1993-04-08
8 APRIL 1993 and fatal. The a ppellant a pplied to the High Court for an order in the nature of certiorari to quash his conviction and sentence on charges of stealing and a ttempted stealing. He deposed that he was...
Citation pending | 1993-03-29
defendant relied to show that a fair trial could not be held had in fact been caused by the defendant ’ s own conduct and where that conduct would be an issue at the trial, eg where the prosecution a lleged that the...