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2 Harris Street is on the other side of the road from 11 Harris Street. I was going to somebody at 11 Harris Street. I went into 11 Harris Street with the intention of picking some a ckees but they were not yet open. I just looked on the a ckee tree and turned back through the gate. I did not stop to speak to a nyone. The two a ccused men were still at the gate when I left the premises. I cannot say how long it took me to walk from 11 Harris Street to 2 High Street. I saw the faces of the two men when they were running. | 1989-03-13
In the first case the two a ppellants were charged with murdering a special constable in a bar. The only evidence of identification was that contained in the deposition of a witness who deposed that he had seen the a...
175/4 | 1989-03-09
The appeal before us is against the judgment of the High Court, Cape Coast dated 7 April 1981. That judgment is headed as follows: "Land Suit 18/73 1. Opanyin Kofi Attah (Head of Adwenadze family of Ekumfi } Adansiman...
Citation pending | 1989-03-01
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Ex parte a pplication – Duty of a pplicant to disclose material facts – Non-disclosure of material facts – Consequences of non-disclosure – Plaintiff...
I was not there. Q You were stating the general principles | 1989-02-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 will contend that in view of this disclosure the defendants are barred under the policy to raise a dispute over this case after the expiry of twelve...
K/K 23 | 1989-02-15
The respondent, Amma Amponsah (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff), sued the a ppellant, Kwadwo Budu (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) in the High Court, Koforidua. The plaintiff claimed against the...
GK 1990 by the Defendant and the inability of the Defendant to either produce the missing items listed in Exhib it | 1989-02-03
3/99. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA 1. NANA KWAKU AMOFAH | 1989-02-03
Citation pending | 1989-02-02
The a pplicant -a ppellant a pplied to the High Court, Koforidua for letters of a dministration with the will a nnexed, contending that the sole executor a ppointed in the a lleged will of the late Prophet James Kwame...
6 St. John Avenue Road | 1989-01-29
J.S.C. · ACQUAH, J.S.C. · ATUGUBA, J.S.C. · ACQUAH, J.S.C: · Heir. I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH TO THE SAID DR. J.R. KELLS ALL MY WORDLY GOODS SO · Ayeh -Kumi that Dr. J.R. Kells wil l be successful in my role. Any...
6 St. John Avenue Road | 1989-01-29
J.S.C., · ACQUAH, J.S.C., ATUGUBA, J.S.C. · ACQUAH, J.S.C: · Heir. I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH TO THE SAID DR. J.R. KELLS ALL MY WORDLY GOODS SO · Ayeh -Kumi that Dr. J.R. Kells will be successful in my role. Any person...
763 48 between Nana Kweku Bamfo II of Akim Manso and others and Messrs Kweku Mensah and others on grounds of fraud and for recover y of possession of the land described in the said conveyance and an order of perpetual injunction against the defendants. Though the plaintiffs conceded to the estoppel raised against them by reason of the various judgments pleaded | 1989-01-26
This appeal by the plaintiffs is from the decision of Twumasi J. in the High Court, Koforidua given on 24 June 1985. The plaintiffs in that action claimed for a declaration of title to a piece of land called Afotem or...
Citation pending | 1989-01-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 I should like to observe from the onset that no citation was filed by the plaintiff either before or at the time he commenced the present action calling...
Citation pending | 1989-01-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 Some time in 1980 the plaintiff, a subject of the Ekpu stool, disputed with the defendant, the chief of Ekpu, over the ownership of a piece of land...
D. 653/4 | 1989-01-19
Before the High Court, Accra, the First Ghana Building Society issued a writ of summons against the defendants, Promexport International (Ghana) Ltd, and claimed the following reliefs: "(i) An order for recovery of...
ARA 74 | 1989-01-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 Obviously the two stances are contradictory, and plainly one of the parties must be telling a falsehood. I turn now to the established facts. The...
550268 dated 2 February 1988 drawn by the defendant. | 1989-01-12
This is an a pplication by Adomthar Timber Industries Ltd. Takoradi (hereinafter referred to as the defendants) praying for an order of certiorari to quash the judgment of the Circuit Court, Sekondi dated 16 September...
Citation pending | 1988-12-21
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Assets – Supplementary benefit a rrears – Benefit a rrears owed to defendant whose a ssets frozen by injunction – Crown having notice of injunction –...
2 | 1988-12-20
I wish to preface this judgment by making some remarks, even if it is considered to be unnecessary, about the rational foundation of our system of justice. The beauty of the judicial system which we have operated in...
Citation pending | 1988-12-13
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Discovery or interrogatory in aid of injunction – Privilege against self-incrimination – Foreign organisation obtaining order directing defendant a...
Citation pending | 1988-12-13
The plaintiffs, Atlas Express Ltd, brought an action against the defendants, Kafco (Importers and Distributors) Ltd, claiming £10,970·37 and interest being the amount outstanding under a number of invoices submitted to...
Citation pending | 1988-11-25
This is an a pplication for a stay of execution pending appeal. The original suit was instituted by the plaintiff -respondents herein to recover from the defendant -a pplicant herein damages in a running down action....
A 209 | 1988-11-11
The plaintiff’s claim is for: "1 (a) a declaration that house No. A 209, South Odorkor Estates, Accra, is her property as a result of inter vivos gift; (b) an order of injunction restraining the defendants jointly and...
Citation pending | 1988-11-07
Taylor J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a pplicant herein was convicted at the circuit court for the offences of falsification of a ccounts and stealing on a number of counts which counsel for the Republic...
Citation pending | 1988-11-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 a ssigned some painting job, and they worked on the job up to noon and had their break. It was their case that after the break they went to the outhouse...
Citation pending | 1988-11-02
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 A critical examination of the evidence led in the course of the trial shows that the plaintiff made financial contributions towards the construction of...
Citation pending | 1988-10-31
The plaintiff claims against the defendant special and general damages for false a rrest and false imprisonment of the plaintiff at the Ministries Police Station, Accra. The plaintiff's evidence showed that: (i) not...
Citation pending | 1988-10-28
Equity – Undue influence – Actual undue influence – Husband and wife – Wife executing charge in favour of bank – Charge over house owned by wife to secure borrowing from bank by family company run by husband – Wife...
Citation pending | 1988-10-25
Land registration – Caution against dealings – Notice of appeal – Appeal from ‘ decision or order … of the Court ’ – Entry of notice of appeal from decision or order of court in register – Whether only notice of appeal...
Citation pending | 1988-10-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 This is an a pplication for a ttachment for contempt. The facts relied on for the a pplication are sufficiently contained in the a ffidavit in support...
2 | 1988-10-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 This is an appeal against the conviction and sentence of the a ppellant by the District Court, Grade II, Assin Fosu presided over by his Worship W.A.M....
Citation pending | 1988-10-20
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Court – Inferior court – Mental health review tribunal – Plaintiffs bringing proceedings for contempt – Whether mental health review tribunal a ‘ court ’...
Citation pending | 1988-10-19
I agree with the decision which my brother Osei -Hwere J.A. will be reading that the a ppellants are entitled to succeed in their appeal. They lost in the district court and in the High Court and for that reason, it is...
Citation pending | 1988-10-18
I will here be considering whether a defendant in a civil case can bring an a pplication in a rrest of judgment. This case was originally fixed for hearing on 20 June 1988 to be taken from day to day up to 22 June 1988...
He was not farming at Nwaano but on the co -defendant | 1988-10-14
This is an appeal lodged by the plaintiff -a ppellant against the judgment of the District Court Grade 1, Wenchi delivered on 13 September 1985. The main grounds of the appeal are that the judgment is against the...
Citation pending | 1988-10-06
Bankruptcy – Practice – Individual insolvency – Applications – Applications to judge – Applications to registrar – Matters to be heard in open court – Listing of petitions – Applications to Chief Clerk – Bankruptcy Act...
Citation pending | 1988-09-29
This is an appeal against the decision of the District Court Grade II, Atebubu presided over by his Worship K. A. Saifa -Bonsu, District Magistrate Grade II, who on 30 June 1987 gave judgment against the plaintiff in...
5 Blk. 8 | 1988-09-29
On 9 February 1987 the plaintiff -bank issued out of this court a writ of summons against the defendants jointly and severally, claiming: "1. ¢17,597,914.19 being the total of an I.D.A. term and working capital loan...
Citation pending | 1988-08-26
message that they had been sent, by the Omanhene of Asankare, Nana Okofrobuo Kwakye Depoah II, that the a pplicant had been destooled as the queenmother and therefore the stool regalia in her possession should be...
Citation pending | 1988-08-05
The plaintiff -judgment creditor -respondent (hereinafter called the plaintiff) took an action on 23 August 1984 against the defendant -judgment debtor -a pplicant (hereinafter called the defendant) claiming the...
2 | 1988-08-04
Osei -Hwere J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. House No. D 40, West Patasi Estate, Kumasi was a cquired by the defendant, Kwaku Wih, in February 1974 from the State Housing Corporation on a hire -purchase lease....
Citation pending | 1988-08-03
The plaintiff, Barclays Bank of Swaziland Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of Swaziland, a ppealed against the order made by Sir Neil Lawson sitting as a judge of the High Court in the Queen ’ s Bench...
Citation pending | 1988-07-28
Sale of land – Contract – Completion – Notice to complete – Validity – Material misdescription of are a in conditions of sale – Whether vendors ready and willing to fulfil own outstanding obligations – Whether notice...
We can see no justification for holding that Mr Dungate | 1988-07-28
(1) Since the common feature of a contract of the utmost good faith was that by the very nature of the contract one party was likely to have command of means of knowledge not a vailable to the other, the obligation to...
I do not think | 1988-07-26
Conflict of laws – Foreign debt – Action in England to recover foreign debt – Debt created by judgment in personam of foreign court of competent jurisdiction – Presence in foreign jurisdiction – Corporate defendant –...
Citation pending | 1988-07-21
In the first case the taxpayers owned a family company, Q Ltd, which in 1973 they decided to sell. Their initial a ttempts to dispose of the company were not successful but in 1976 they entered into negotiations, first...
Citation pending | 1988-07-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 down by virtue of those provisions for the taking of confession statements made by a ccused persons was not complied with when the a ccused'sstatement...
Citation pending | 1988-07-18
These are two a pplications before the court both of which are seeking to a mend portions of the pleadings. The first one was put in by the co -defendants, and the second by the plaintiff. The brief facts of this part...
5/84 and recovered judgment for the entire amount owed together with interest and costs on 30 July 1984. In an effort to go into execution the defendants a ttached on sale the combine harvester they paid for on behalf of | 1988-07-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 The a greement also enjoined the customer to pay all the licence and registration fees and deposit all such documents with the bank. Simply put, this a...
ADB 4/5 602115 drawn on account No. 00448 together with the statement of account which you presented to this department as a result of the public auction held on 30 July 1984. This is as a result of a representation made for and on behalf of the Pantang Hospital by the Ministry of Health to rehabilitate this tank to solve the water problem at the above hospital. Since this request is a national a ffair | 1988-07-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 take delivery of the tank, he was driven a way by the managing director with a threat to spill out his blood if he would not get a way. Upon the...
Citation pending | 1988-07-07
F. and M. Khoury, the defendant -a pplicants (hereinafter called the a pplicants) lost an action in the High Court, Sekondi on 15 May 1987. They a ppealed to the Court of Appeal, and a gain lost on 7 July 1988 (see...