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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1991-11-29
For the purposes of consolidating two or more causes or matters ‘ pending ’ in the same Division of the High Court pursuant to RSC Ord 4, r 9(1)a an action is pending if the writ has been issued irrespective of whether...
Citation pending | 1991-11-28
nervous shock causing psychiatric illness as a result of the experiences inflicted on them by the disaster, they were entitled in law to recover damages for nervous shock against the defendant was tried as a...
Citation pending | 1991-11-12
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 | 1991-11-08
This is an a pplication by Diana Chochoo Chinto for an order of certiorari to bring up and quash the proceedings in the suit instituted in the High Court, Accra bearing the number OS 1955/91 and titled La Community...
Citation pending | 1991-09-20
The plaintiff lent moneys to a company which were repayable on demand. By a legal charge made between the plaintiff, the company and the defendant mortgagors, the defendants charged their family home as security for...
Citation pending | 1991-07-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 MORKOR v KUMA [1999 -2000] 1 GLR 69 -75 Practice and procedure -Appeal -Leave to a dduce new evidence -Appeal before Supreme Court -Conditions stay...
Citation pending | 1991-07-17
Following the collapse of a deposit-taking company registered in Gibraltar and its a ssociated English companies, the companies went into liquidation and receivers were a ppointed. The companies had promoted and...
Citation pending | 1991-07-03
Francois J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the findings and order of a disciplinary committee constituted under the Legal Profession Act, 1960 (Act 32) which found the a ppellant guilty...
Citation pending | 1991-06-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BRONI AND ANOTHER v ANTWI AND ANOTHER [1997 -98] 1 GLR 337 - 1972 (C127), s 23(2). The plaintiff -respondents brought a chieftaincy suit against the...
16/91 entitled | 1991-06-17
The a pplicant is a legal practitioner of some 22 years standing at the bar. On Monday, 17 June 1991 he a ppeared fully -robed before the Court of Appeal (coram: Lamptey, Adjabeng and Ofori Boateng JJA) with Mr. Ben...
Citation pending | 1991-06-13
The defendants, Finagro Holding SA of Annoeullin, a ppealed from the judgment of Kenneth Rokison QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court in the Queen ’ s Bench Division on 17 July 1990 whereby he declared that...
Citation pending | 1991-06-06
Kingdom to receive programmes without the consent of the broadcaster. He a ccordingly struck out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action. The respondents a ppealed to the Court of Appeal,...
Citation pending | 1991-05-24
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Substantial risk of serious prejudice to fair trial – Imminent or pending proceedings – Common law contempt – Police requesting newspapers not to publish...
Citation pending | 1991-05-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 Charles Hayfron -Benjamin JSC delivered the ruling at the invitation of Amua -Sekyi JSC. The preceding matters leading to the present a pplication...
Citation pending | 1991-05-10
Following investigations by the United States Federal Reserve Board into the a cquisition of three United States banks by the defendant bank, a deposit-taking commercial bank trading in England and elsewhere, a...
7/96. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA Where | 1991-05-08
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chief dated 8th May 1991 which a ffirmed the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Central Region House...
2 | 1991-04-29
This is an interlocutory a pplication on notice by the plaintiff -a pplicant (hereinafter referred to as the a pplicant) for summary judgment against the defendant -respondents (hereinafter referred to as the...
Citation pending | 1991-04-25
The terms of a lease of office premises for 32 years from 28 October 1976 made between the a ppellants as landlords and the respondents as lessees provided for rent reviews at five-yearly intervals, the rent payable...
Citation pending | 1991-04-17
The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and the Commissioner of Police a ppealed with special leave to appeal granted by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 5 December 1990 from the decision of the Court...
Citation pending | 1991-04-11
Contempt of court – Criminal contempt – Intention to interfere with course of justice – Breach of injunction by person not party to action – Party to proceedings restrained by court from publishing confidential...
Citation pending | 1991-04-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 of a chief, which functions include pouring libation on the stool on important occasions, receiving customary homage and tribute from subjects,...
Citation pending | 1991-02-28
Passing off – Journal – Alteration of copies without authority – Newspaper – Insertion of a dvertising material in newspapers without consent of newspaper proprietor – Whether a dvertising inserts a mounting to...
Citation pending | 1991-02-25
In 1986 the third defendant, a company of which the first and second defendants were directors, a cquired two a djacent semi-detached houses and converted them into flats, one of which was a ground-floor flat which...
Citation pending | 1991-02-06
In 1964 and 1967 outline planning permission was given for the erection of residential units on an open space of 2.7 a cres (the site) in a city of outstanding beauty. In 1968 six conservation a reas, one of which...
Citation pending | 1991-01-30
Action – Dismissal – Failure to deliver statement of claim – Copyright action – Plaintiff issuing writ out of Queen ’ s Bench Division seeking delivery up of printing plates and injunction restraining infringement of...
Citation pending | 1991-01-30
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Third party commencing proceedings in the Netherlands against plaintiffs – Whether court having jurisdiction to grant Mareva injunction in aid of Dutch...
Citation pending | 1991-01-24
The Court of Appeal on 24 January 1991 reversed the ruling of the High Court, Kumasi given in favour of the a ppellant -defendant (hereinafter referred to as the defendant). It is against that decision of the Court of...
11.95.56.08 aupres vous memes. | 1990-12-21
circumstances the first and third defendants were liable to account in equity as constructive trustees. The second defendant was also liable for the a cts of the first defendant, who was his partner, and the third...
Plot 24 | 1990-12-20
This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Kumasi. The plaintiff -a ppellant (hereinafter called the plaintiff) is the customary successor and the a dministratrix of the late Joseph Prempeh of Kumasi. While...
2 | 1990-12-19
On 19 December 1990, this court, by a majority of four to one, gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff -company (hereinafter called the plaintiffs) for £23,800 damages for breach of a contract of carriage. The court...
Citation pending | 1990-12-03
The bank took the preliminary point that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain the complaints since they had not been presented to the tribunal within the period stipulated by s 68(1) of the 1976 Act of three...
Citation pending | 1990-11-28
Conflict of laws – Foreign organisation – Recognition – Legal personality and capacity – International organisation created by treaty to which United Kingdom was not a party – Organisation not subject to United Kingdom...
KK 23 | 1990-11-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 of the properties listed in the statement of claim; that of the defendant, Kwadwo Budu, and he represents, was that the properties was a cquired by...
Citation pending | 1990-10-18
The a ppellants, a German steel manufacturing company, sold and supplied to C Ltd, a Scottish engineering company, quantities of steel strip for use in its manufacturing processes. The contracts of sale were subject to...
Citation pending | 1990-10-18
Immigration – Appeal – Deportation – Function of immigration a djudicator – Power to inquire into decision to deport – Whether a djudicator entitled to inquire whether person making decision to deport had power to do...
Citation pending | 1990-10-17
(2) Given that Parliament did not intend that the Bank ’ s powers under s 42 of the 1987 Act should be operated subject to the continuation of the privilege against self-incrimination, it was clear that the defendant ’...
Citation pending | 1990-09-30
Citation pending | 1990-09-25
By summons dated 1 May 1990 the defendants, the Islington Health Authority, a pplied to strike out as disclosing no reasonable cause of action the writ issued by the plaintiff, B, in the Manchester District Registry on...
Citation pending | 1990-07-31
to the Land Registry and it had been reasonable for the vendor ’ s solicitors to believe that registration of the title would be perfected in time to comply with the contractual obligation to deduce title and since the...
Citation pending | 1990-07-31
Held – The Attorney General ’ s claim was not based on a breach of confidentiality but on a breach of contract, the consideration for the covenant by the first defendant not to publish matter concerning his experiences...
Citation pending | 1990-07-31
A charitable trust, whose main object was the restoration of the River Derwent as a navigable river, and the town council of Malton, a town on the bank of the river about 38 miles upstream from the junction of the...
Citation pending | 1990-07-26
Contempt of court – Appeal – Court of Appeal – Jurisdiction – Appeal by a pplicant – Application for committal or a ttachment – Application by Attorney General for company and editor to be fined for contempt – Judge...
Citation pending | 1990-07-19
In 1980 a syndicate of banks, including the a ppellant, a greed to advance very substantial sums to a company controlled by B to finance the purchase of certain Spanish companies. The loans were made on the security of...
2 | 1990-06-25
that their marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation. Particularising that round, the petitioner a verred, inter a lia, that the first respondent had co mmitted bigamy and a dultery with the second respondent. The...
Citation pending | 1990-06-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 OBRASIW A II and Others v OTU and Another [1997 -98] 1 GLR 858 - Courts -Appeal -Findings of fact -Concurrent findings of fact by trial and lower a...
Citation pending | 1990-06-13
Although the court can, pursuant to its inherent power to regulate its own proceedings, permit a director of a company to a ppear as an a dvocate on its behalf, the normal rule is that a body corporate must a ppear by...
Citation pending | 1990-05-31
On 3 June 1987 the District Court Grade I, Accra dismissed an action by Muideen Hamid (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) against Kwadjo Okata and two others (hereinafter referred to [p.422] as the defendants)...
Use for that other purpose would no longer be use for the | 1990-05-01
By a summons dated 2 May 1989 issued by the a pplicants, James George Stoddart Longcroft, Peter Brian Moody, Leon Joseph Staciokas, Jimmy Duane Stewart, Roger John Smith and Combined Technologies Corp plc, the first,...
Citation pending | 1990-04-30
Pension – Pension scheme – Power of nomination – Power to appoint nominee to receive benefits payable if employee died while still in employment – Nominations subject to prior a pproval of management committee of...
42 of 1958 | 1990-04-25
OF AMUA – SEKYI J.S.C. Amua – Sekyi J..S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a pplicant, Paul Laryea, offered himself as a candidate in the Kinka Electoral Are a in Accra in elections due to be held under the...