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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1993-03-26
On 26 March 1993, the plaintiffs who at the time of the issue of the writ herein were the elected executives of the Kaneshie -Cape Coast -Takoradi branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades...
Citation pending | 1993-03-25
25 MARCH 1993 pushed the deceased onto the bare cement floor, stamped on the deceased’s chest about four times, and broke his ribs. The deceased bled from the mouth but was not given immediate medical a ttention as the...
Citation pending | 1993-03-25
On 5 September 1987 the late Mr. Patrick Kwaku Anim -Addo made a will in which he provided as follows: "I appoint Mrs Addae Mensah a lias Nana Abena Biama as one of the executors to a dminister my interest in the...
Citation pending | 1993-02-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Kuenyehia and others v Archer and [1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 1260 – 1356 S C Article 156 of the 1992 Constitution provides that a justice of the superior...
Citation pending | 1993-02-18
18 FEBRUARY 1993 a pplicant a pplied to set a side the default judgment but the a pplication was struck out. On 31 July 1992, he a pplied to relist the motion to set a side the default judgment but the trial judge...
Citation pending | 1993-02-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Zogli v Ganyo [1977] 1 GLR 297, CA and Suka v Glavee [1991]/1 GLR 194 a pplied. witness was not a dmissible evidence of the truth of the fact stated...
Citation pending | 1993-02-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Held: (1) The court had no jurisdiction to grant the a pplication. Takyi v Ghassoub (Ghana) Ltd [1978 -88] 2 Takyi v Ghassoub (Ghana) Ltd [1987 -88] 2...
The dignity and the aura of respectability in which the office of President is enveloped must be preserved... | 1993-02-03
It is an a xiom of British parliamentary democracy that Parliament is supreme. This means that Parliament may pass any laws that it considers ought to be made. If it takes a mistaken view of the public interest and...
BL22/2007 VS. | 1993-02-01
The Plaintiff, who sued for herself and on behalf of her siblings and their dependants claimed as follows: a) Declaration that House No F213/2 Lokko Road Osu, built by W. K Ayettey had by his death become family...
Citation pending | 1993-01-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (1) MacFoy v United Africa Co Ltd [1962] AC 152; [1961] 3 WLR 1405; [1961] 3 AllER 1169, PC. (II) R v Revising Barrister of Borough of Henly [1912] 3 KB...
Citation pending | 1993-01-07
The National Public Tribunal invokes the jurisdiction of this court by way of case stated under the Supreme Court Rules, 1970 (CI 13), to seek a nswers to question of a constitutional nature a rising from a case before...
31 of 1954 | 1992-12-29
(delivered the judgment of the court). After the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime, the judiciary came in for much criticism for the role it had played while the previous government was in power. It was said that it had...
Citation pending | 1992-12-21
Due to disruption caused by individuals digging on a beach for lugworms to be used as fishing bait, the local council passed a byelaw to prevent persons from digging for bait within ‘ such parts of the [beach] as lie...
Citation pending | 1992-12-18
By writ dated 13 February 1992 the plaintiffs, Antwerp United Diamonds BVBA (Antwerp) and Excess Insurance Co Ltd (suing on their own behalf and on behalf of all other insurers subscribing to insurance policy JA7902090...
Citation pending | 1992-12-18
(4) Since on the facts the plaintiff would not have a greed to make the loans but for the fifth defendant ’ s negligent overvaluation and the first defendant would not have provided cover by way of mortgage indemnity...
Citation pending | 1992-12-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 On 3 August 1993 the a pplicant, Augustine Kwasi Esseim, a pplied to the Court of Appeal for an order granting an extension of time to file a petition...
Citation pending | 1992-12-14
Held – The police were under no duty of care to protect road users from, or to warn them of, hazards discovered by the police while going about their duties on the highway, and there was in the circumstances no special...
2 | 1992-12-11
The plaintiffs in two separate a ppeals were involved in motor vehicle a ccidents in which their cars were damaged and were off the road while repairs were undertaken. Following their a ccidents the plaintiffs entered...
It has not. | 1992-12-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 Special Public Prosecutor, representing the Office of the Special Public Prosecutor (the a pplicants), objected to the jurisdiction of the National...
Citation pending | 1992-11-26
Costs – Taxation – Solicitor – Bill of costs for contentious business – Uplift of costs for general care and conduct of proceedings – Hourly rate for litigation solitors outside London – Costs of time spent by...
Citation pending | 1992-11-25
Document – Admissibility in evidence – Record as evidence of facts stated therein – Authenticity of record disputed – Judge ordering that parties entitled to a dduce in evidence and rely on specified categories of...
Citation pending | 1992-11-19
Declaration – Procedure – Declaration as to lawfulness of proposed conduct – Proposed medical treatment – Withdrawal of treatment – Insensate patient – Patient in persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery –...
Citation pending | 1992-11-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 a mounts were taken from Nyieni — one in 1961, possibly taken by Newman a lone, and the other in 1964. The 1961 amount had not been repaid when Newman...
Citation pending | 1992-11-16
The plaintiffs suffered ill effects as the result of drinking contaminated water from the defendant water undertaker ’ s drinking water system which had been polluted when 20 tonnes of a luminium sulphate were a...
L4/92 shall be brought up to the registry of this court | 1992-11-16
On 16 November 1992 an action was commenced in the High Court, Denu titled as follows: "(1) Hlotator Adigbli Avadali II of Afegame, head of Anyigbe clan family. (2) Togbe Awafiaga Abordor VII, principal member of...
L4/92 shall be brought up to the registry of this court | 1992-11-16
On 16 November 1992 an action was commenced in the High Court, Denu titled as follows: "(1) Hlotator Adigbli Avadali II of Afegame, head of Anyigbe clan family. (2) Togbe Awafiaga Abordor VII, principal member of...
Citation pending | 1992-11-12
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 | 1992-10-29
In 1985 P pleaded guilty in Sweden to offences relating to the distribution in Sweden of a substantial quantity of cannabis imported from a broad, and was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years. While serving his...
Citation pending | 1992-10-21
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 This is an a pplication made on behalf of the plaintiff for an order of interim injunction: "(1) To restrain the first defendant -respondent herein from...
Citation pending | 1992-08-28
Limitation of action – Personal injury claim – Plaintiff ’ s knowledge – Date of plaintiff ’ s knowledge that injury was significant – Date on which plaintiff first had knowledge that injury a ttributable to defendant...
Citation pending | 1992-07-20
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Discovery in aid of injunction – Privilege against self-incrimination – Condition a ttached to disclosure order in civil proceedings prohibiting material disclosed under...
Citation pending | 1992-07-09
respect of the insurers ’ failure to meet their claims, contending that in paying professional liability claims in the United States and Canada the insurers were nevertheless ‘ carrying on _ insurance business ’ in the...
Citation pending | 1992-07-09
Company – Administration order – Discharge of order – Release of a dministrators – Postponement of release – Outstanding claim against a dministrators – Applicants leasing goods to company on hire purchase –...
Citation pending | 1992-06-18
Discovery – Production of documents – Confidence – Order that material disclosed to be used solely for action in which production ordered – Application to vary order to permit disclosure pursuant to legal obligation in...
Citation pending | 1992-06-02
The appeal is from the judgment of the National House of Chiefs dated 29 November 1994. The respondent invoked the original jurisdiction of the National House of Chiefs by a sking nananom to make certain declarations...
In view of Mrs O | 1992-05-22
The husband, a shareholder in a manufacturing company, wanted an increased overdraft facility for the company. Discussions took place between the husband and the manager of the company ’ s bank during which it was a...
Citation pending | 1992-05-07
Minor – Custody – Rights of custody – Foreign custody rights – Wrongful removal or retention – Grave risk that return would place child in intolerable situation – Canadian court giving custody to mother and interim...
Citation pending | 1992-04-02
Housing – Homeless person – Duty of housing authority to provide a ccommodation – Duty to provide suitable a ccommodation – Remedy for breach of duty – Applicant claiming a ccommodation offered to him unsuitable –...
Citation pending | 1992-04-01
Practice – Preliminary point of law – Order for trial of preliminary point of law – Judge ’ s control of proceedings – Trial judge ordering preliminary determination of certain issues – Whether parties entitled as of...
Citation pending | 1992-03-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 lawyers in the country which should be a ppropriate body to institute it, and not the defendant - a ssociation. Alternatively, the plaintiff contends...
Citation pending | 1992-03-20
WRIGHT J. There are before the court two summonses, one on behalf of the plaintiffs, one on behalf of the defendants. The plaintiffs ’ summons is to a mend the individual writs in the case to add a claim for deceit....
Citation pending | 1992-03-20
20 MARCH 1992 defendant. He therefore sued the defendants for specific performance of the a greement for the lease. The trial judge held that the payment of the ground rent and the renovations by the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1992-02-27
Divorce – Financial provision – Interim order – Interim capital payment – Allocation of particular a sset to satisfy contingent claim – Proceeds of former matrimonial home held in joint fund – Wife wishing to purchase...
Citation pending | 1992-02-20
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Pending proceedings – Risk of interference with course of justice – Judge imposing reporting restrictions on fraud trial because further trials of...
Citation pending | 1992-02-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 8 The first defendant is the chief of Dodome -Awiasu, while the second defendant is the regent to the paramount chief of Dodome and is at Dodome Avexa....
Citation pending | 1992-01-30
30 JANUARY 1992 exigible from date of judgment – Order 42 r 15 High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 1954 (LN 140A), Courts (Award of Interest) Instrument 1984 (LI 1295). The trial High Court judge entered judgment...
Citation pending | 1992-01-30
30 JANUARY 1992 The deceased, founder of a church died at the age of 125 years. In his will he left his position as a prophet in the church as well as its properties to the plaintiff, the sole executor. The defendant...
Citation pending | 1991-12-17
By a writ and statement of claim dated 24 June 1988 the plaintiff, Linda Annette Allen, claimed damages from the first defendant, the Bloomsbury Health Authority, and the second defendant, Dr Esther Anderton, for...
Citation pending | 1991-12-06
In a ctions brought by over 900 plaintiffs against the defendants, John Wyeth & Brother Ltd and Roche Products Ltd, who were respectively the manufacturers of the drugs Ativan and Valium, claiming damages for personal...
Citation pending | 1991-12-03
Discovery – Discovery against persons not parties to proceedings – Former legal a dviser to defendant – American a ttorneys practising in London who had a cted for defendant – Right to obtain information from persons...