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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1990-04-11
The plaintiff employed the defendant solicitors to act on his behalf in divorce proceedings when his marriage broke down. The plaintiff and his wife a greed that the matrimonial home, which was in their joint names, be...
Citation pending | 1990-04-11
Vexatious proceedings – Instituting proceedings – Institute – Counterclaim – Whether litigant ‘ instituting ’ vexatious proceedings if he makes a counterclaim – Supreme Court Act 1981, s 42(1).
Citation pending | 1990-04-09
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...
These are wrong questions to ask in this case. The substantive issue is whether Kobby and Amanda as | 1990-04-03
Major (Rtd) Kwame Asante died on 3 April 1990. A few months a fterwards the surviving spouse, Mrs Letitia Asante, and the eldest son, Yaw Asante, a pplied to the High Court, Accra for letters of a dministrator to a...
Citation pending | 1990-03-30
The a ppellant (hereinafter called the plaintiff) was employed by the defendant -corporation on 11 October 1972. He remained in their employment until he was summarily dismissed by a letter, exhibit K, dated 22...
Citation pending | 1990-03-22
In 1955, by a lease expiring in 2049, the landlords ’ predecessors in title demised to the tenants a dry dock and the industrial buildings, fixtures and machinery necessary for its operation. The lease contained a...
3 | 1990-03-08
On 8 March 1990 the Supreme Court delivered its decision in the above appeal: (see [1989 -90] 2 GLR 341, SC). Before 26 November 1987 that decision would have conclusively ended this protracted matter. The significance...
Citation pending | 1990-02-27
In 1982 about 1,500 a pplications for equal pay were made by women canteen workers, including the a ppellant, employed by the respondent employer, claiming that they were doing like work with male comparators on less...
Citation pending | 1990-02-20
Costs – Security for costs – Plaintiff ordinarily resident out of the jurisdiction – Plaintiff resident outside EEC – Norwegian plaintiffs seeking to recover moneys from defendants on behalf of estate of bankrupt...
Citation pending | 1990-02-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Republic v High Court Accra, ex parte Chinto [1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 1066 – 1078 C.A deemed a principal debtor for the moneys secured. The company...
Citation pending | 1990-02-16
Held – A plaintiff a lleging that a defendant owed a duty to take reasonable care to prevent loss to him caused by the a ctivities of another person had to prove not merely that it was foreseeable that loss would...
Citation pending | 1990-02-13
Costs – Security for costs – Plaintiff ordinarily resident out of the jurisdiction – Plaintiff resident in EEC – Plaintiff incorporated out of jurisdiction – Plaintiff seeking damages for breach of contract against...
Citation pending | 1990-02-06
In May 1981 a Hong Kong company, EH, received a certificate for 10,886,855 bonus shares in another Hong Kong company, EIL, to be held in trust for the plaintiffs. In September EH deposited the share certificate and...
Citation pending | 1990-01-29
The late Emmanuel Atta Ampomah was known, before his death as a hypertensive and diabetic patient for over two decades and had been on treatment at various hospitals for both ailments. His state of health was known to...
Citation pending | 1990-01-23
The a ppellant has a ppealed against the refusal of the High Court (coram Lamptey J.A. sitting as an a dditional judge of the High Court) to grant him certain interim reliefs he sought from the court. The a ppellant...
Citation pending | 1989-12-21
remedies for that right being the same as those of a copyright owner in respect of an infringement of copyright. It followed that the plaintiffs ’ statement of claim disclosed a good cause of action and their appeal...
Citation pending | 1989-12-21
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 | 1989-12-19
Practice – Stay of proceedings – Jurisdiction – Appropriate forum – Litigation pending in foreign court – United States plaintiff taking out reinsurance policies on London market – Plaintiff properly serving...
2 | 1989-12-13
Lamptey J. A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 16 April 1987 Pastor George Adabire Israel Apasere of the Assemblies of God Church at Duusi in the Upper East Region of Ghana engaged a number of men to mould...
Citation pending | 1989-12-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 (c) Whether the plaintiff is a licensee of the defendant's Agona family of Damang and whether the plaintiff is in breach of the terms of his licence....
2 | 1989-12-12
This is an appeal against the decision of the High Court, Ho dated 4 December 1987. On 30 September 1987 the plaintiff -company took out a writ of summons against the defendant for, "(1). . . the immediate payment of...
Citation pending | 1989-12-12
On 17 November 1988, the a ppellant -a pplicants herein a pplied to the High Court, Kumasi for the issuance of a writ of prohibition to prohibit the judicial committee of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs from...
F 739/3 | 1989-12-07
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 8 there. The second defendant, Olinto Magrini, had also shown interest in the business. To safeguard the interest of all concerned a sublease for ten...
Citation pending | 1989-11-23
Immigration – Appeal – Dismissal of appeal in absence of immigrant – Remedy a vailable to immigrant – Reference of case to a djudicator by Secretary of State for further consideration – Procedure – Duty of a djudicator...
Citation pending | 1989-11-15
The employee was a member of a contracted-out pension scheme established and wholly financed by his employer. The normal pensionable age under the scheme was 62 for men and 57 for women. The contracts of employment of...
Citation pending | 1989-11-14
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...
Citation pending | 1989-11-08
Held – Where a particular issue had been raised and decided in previous proceedings between the same parties the decision on that issue normally gave rise to an issue estoppel but, unlike cause of action estoppel, an...
Citation pending | 1989-10-26
Lamptey J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. Early in December 1985 in the city of Cape Coast the first defendant, C. K. Budgyei, a pproached the plaintiff -a ppellant, Gustav Ackumey (hereinafter called the...
Citation pending | 1989-10-20
Contempt of court – Company – Breach of injunction – Liability of director for company ’ s breach – Court granting injunction restraining company and director from doing certain a cts – Injunction varied and company...
Citation pending | 1989-09-06
The a ccused was on 15 May 1989 charged in the district Court Grade I, Tamale with the offence of possessing forged documents, contrary to section 159 of the criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). The particulars of the offence...
Citation pending | 1989-08-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BARCLAYS BANK(GHANA)LTD v SAKARI [1997 -98] 1 GLR 746 -767 tanker. The plaintiff -bank granted an a pplication by the defendant, a customer, for a loan...
Citation pending | 1989-07-28
There were originally 14 plaintiff banks, but four have discontinued. Of the remaining ten, seven were existing creditors of the company at the date of the auditors ’ report a lleged to have been relied on, and three...
Citation pending | 1989-07-28
Held – Although a police officer exercising his power of a rrest without warrant was required by common law to inform the person being a rrested of the grounds on which the a rrest was being made, he was not required...
AB/83 | 1989-07-28
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (c) an order that any such sum be paid to the defendant with interest; (d) an order that the defendant be at liberty to set off all sums paid by the...
Citation pending | 1989-07-27
a ppealed to the Court of Appeal, a lleging tortious conduct by the union in inducing a breach by the registered dock workers of their statutory duty to work imposed by cl 8(5)(b) of the scheme and in committing the...
Citation pending | 1989-07-13
Colin John McCubbin (the landlord), the trustee of the estate of Frances Pinckney deceased, a ppealed against the order of his Honour Judge Boothman made in the Bath County Court on 20 March 1989 a llowing an a...
125/1986 with the Lands Registry | 1989-07-06
By a debenture dated 8 February 1983 and registered as No. 125/1986 with the Lands Registry, the plaintiff -bank, the a ppellants in this appeal, secured a charge over the fixed a ssets (present and future) of the...
Citation pending | 1989-07-03
Execution – Charging order – Land – Competing claims – Wife and husband ’ s creditor – Creditor obtaining judgment against husband and obtaining charging order on husband ’ s interest in matrimonial home – Wife...
B.R. 366 of 1 December 1985. | 1989-06-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 8 the said goods caused a delay of three days before the second defendants could take delivery of the said goods." The second defendants also concede that...
Citation pending | 1989-06-07
Held – The court could interfere with the exercise by a judge of his discretion not to grant an interlocutory injunction where, having determined that there was a serious issue to be tried, he a ppeared to have a...
11.95.56.08 aupres vous memes. | 1989-05-19
a llege that the defendants were parties to the fraud or that they had actual knowledge of it, but a lleged that they were guilty of wilful or reckless failure to make such inquiries as an honest man would have made to...
Citation pending | 1989-05-18
(a) a declaration that the removal of the Dwomo stool from the plaintiff’s custody by the defendants is unlawful and against custom; and (b) an order for the return of the said stool to the plaintiff by the...
18/88 was filed on behalf o of the National House to grant leave | 1989-05-16
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 Francois J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the majority. On 16 May 1989 this court dismissed an a pplication by J.B. Nartey to be substituted for Nii Adja...
Citation pending | 1989-05-12
Held – A plaintiff who initiated proceedings against the same defendant in two separate jurisdictions in respect of the same subject matter was required to elect which set of proceedings he wished to pursue, and if he...
Citation pending | 1989-05-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 "(1) A declaration of title to all that piece or parcel of land situate at Avoeme -Aflao and bounded on one side by land belonging to Akligo on another...
Citation pending | 1989-05-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 High Court, Kumasi; Ex parte Fosuhene [1989 90]2 GLR 315 at 321, SC cited. Republic v Omanhene of Fosuhene, High Court, Kumasi, 4 May 1989, unreported...
Citation pending | 1989-04-28
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Discovery or interrogatory in aid of injunction – Privilege against self-incrimination not extending to criminal offences and penalties under foreign...
A.F.R.C./No.75/61 dated 10 October 1979 a ddressed to the Managing Director of the Tema | 1989-04-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 Development Corporation and copied to you, rent cards have been issued to us and we have a ccordingly started paying the rents on the houses direct to...
Citation pending | 1989-04-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 A statement of claim was in due course filed by the plaintiff. The defendants caused a ppearance to be entered for them. The defendants filed a...
Citation pending | 1989-03-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 is the case of the prosecution that the a ppellant and the late Kweku Danso left the bar together and took the same path February 1981 Kweku Danso was...