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3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
1439 | 1987-11-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 the deceased which a mounted to a recall of the gift: see Quashie v. Baidoe, Court of Appeal, 5 August 1969; digested in (1969) C.C. 153. The...
Citation pending | 1987-11-03
By a lease dated 22 November 1982 the landlord demised certain premises, being a plot of land and buildings thereon, to the tenant ’ s predecessor in title for a term of 99 years from 12 December 1979. It was common...
Citation pending | 1987-10-28
The Apple and Pear Development Council was a statutory body whose general a ctivities included promoting the production in England and Wales and marketing of standard a pples and pears. Those a ctivities were financed...
Citation pending | 1987-10-27
Held – (1) The reservation of a rent was not necessary for the creation of a tenancy. Accordingly, the fact that the defendants were not required by cl 5 to pay rent in respect of their occupation of the shop premises...
Citation pending | 1987-10-23
Minor – Custody – Access – Foreign right of access – Enforcement of foreign right of access – Ontario court giving mother custody of children and father reasonable access – Mother removing children to England – Father...
Citation pending | 1987-10-22
The plaintiff was the widow and a dministratrix of the deceased, who had been employed from 1938 to 1943 in a power station operated by a public authority whose liabilities had since devolved on the defendant. In 1981...
Citation pending | 1987-10-09
This a pplication is brought under section 13 (1) of the Wills Act, 1971 (Act 360). In it the a pplicant who is the widow of the testator, prays the court for an order for financial provision for herself and for the...
Citation pending | 1987-10-07
In an action by the plaintiff for damages for a lleged professional negligence judgment was given for the defendant a rchitect. The plaintiff was in receipt of legal aid and the defendant sought an order that his...
Citation pending | 1987-09-11
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 – Grant of...
Citation pending | 1987-08-11
Divorce – Financial provision – Periodical payments – Termination – Wife cohabiting with another man – Whether court can take into consideration wife ’ s cohabitation in exercising its power to vary periodical payments...
Citation pending | 1987-08-07
This action has its genesis in a loan transaction. In 1960 the plaintiff took a loan of £2,000 from the first defendants. He secured the repayment of the loan with his house No A 1420/3 (Glory House) situate at...
242 | 1987-07-31
This is an appeal by the defendant -a ppellant (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) from the judgment of the district magistrate grade I sitting at Lartebiokorshie, Accra. The district magistrate gave judgment in...
Citation pending | 1987-07-31
The a pplicant was on 22 May 1987 only a few hours a way from going through a marriage ceremony with one Miss. Sabina Annan under the Marriage Ordinance, Cap. 127 (1951 Rev.) when he [p.478] was served with an order...
Citation pending | 1987-07-29
Held – The exercise by the Attorney General of the Crown ’ s power to act as protector of charity was not an a ssertion by the Crown of any proprietary or contractual claim of its own and a ccordingly a...
Citation pending | 1987-07-22
W, a former member of the British security service, who had had access to highly classified and sensitive information, proposed to publish his memoirs in Australia but the Attorney General, claiming that in doing so W...
Citation pending | 1987-07-14
By a specially indorsed writ, the plaintiff claims from the defendant the sum of ¢218,000 being a debt due and owing to the plaintiff by the defendant. The plaintiff is also claiming a compound interest at the current...
D 800/4 | 1987-07-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 That the defendant is a tenant of the plaintiff in that house is not really in dispute. The plaintiff is the customary successor of the defendant's...
Citation pending | 1987-07-08
The plaintiffs in an action a ppealed against a decision of Mr Registrar Adams refusing, solely on the grounds of its lateness, their a pplication on 2 July 1987 for security for costs in the sum of £19,960 in an...
Citation pending | 1987-06-26
The plaintiff engaged the defendants to install central heating in her house. While the defendants were carrying out the work the plaintiff returned home one a fternoon to see smoke pouring from the loft of the house....
Citation pending | 1987-06-25
This is an appeal from the decision of his Worship Mr. S. A. Ankrah, sitting at the District Court Grade II, Winneba. The a ppellant was a rraigned before him on two charges: (a) unlawful entry: contrary to section 152...
8 | 1987-06-25
This case involves a consideration of Order 26, r. 1 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A) — the circumstances under which a plaintiff can discontinue a case with leave and still retain his cause...
Citation pending | 1987-06-15
The a ppellant was a police officer who was a member of an a rmed posse which was sent to investigate a report that an a rmed man was terrorising and menacing his family at their house. When the police a rrived at the...
On the facts of this case | 1987-06-02
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 | 1987-05-20
Divorce – Financial provision – Variation of order – Appeal – Appeal out of time – Leave to appeal – Death of spouse – Order made in full and final settlement of all claims – Death of wife before execution of order –...
Citation pending | 1987-05-20
Held – The question whether a dispute between the parties to a contract fell within an a greement to a rbitrate was primarily a question of construction of the a rbitration clause itself in the circumstances of the...
Citation pending | 1987-05-12
1. In order to deal more quickly with summonses that are unlikely to last for more than five minutes, each master will from the week beginning 6 July 1987 hear a short summons list on the following days each week...
E 81/15 at Nima | 1987-05-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 the Court; and 4thly, there must be a proper parol evidence of the contract, which is let in by the a cts of part performance." Thus, in the instant...
Citation pending | 1987-04-28
This a pplication on notice was brought by the Senior High Court Registrar, Accra in his capacity as receiver and manager of house No D 242/3, Korle Wokon, Accra and directed against the
Citation pending | 1987-03-24
In all other cases, the sentence will depend on a variety of factors, which may include (a) a guilty plea, (b) the amount involved and the length of time over which the defalcations occurred (bearing in mind that a...
It would only be possible to a rrive at such a result by implying some elaborate proviso in para 6 of Sch 7 to the 1965 Act and s 20 of the 1976 Act. | 1987-03-24
gains tax for 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78 on the basis that on the sale of the shares by M Ltd to J Ltd there had been disposals by the taxpayers giving rise to chargeable gains, the consideration for the disposals being...
2 | 1987-03-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Lankan Supreme Court in Joseph Perera v. Attorney -General [1992] 1 SRLR 199: “….. Indian Supreme Court in the case of the Superintendent Central...
Citation pending | 1987-03-12
Practice – Appeal – Pending appeal – No live issue – Publicly funded litigation – Event occurring which disposes of issue between parties – Duty of counsel and solicitors – Duty to ensure appeal is withdrawn or to seek...
9 of 1953 | 1987-03-06
In Republic v. Circuit Court, Accra; Ex parte Tay, High Court, Accra, 23 August 1989, unreported, the a pplicant therein invited the High Court presided over by Ammah J. to quash a ruling of her Honour Beatrice Agyeman...
Citation pending | 1987-03-05
the amount paid in lieu of notice should include the extra week ’ s notice to which he would have been entitled if he had remained in the employers ’ employment until being made redundant in September 1985. The...
Citation pending | 1987-03-03
This is a motion by the a pplicant herein, Nana Dwoani Akenten II of Yeji in the Brong -Ahafo Region of Ghana, praying this honourable court for an order to issue a writ of a ttachment and committal against the...
Citation pending | 1987-02-23
Equity – Ne exeat regno – Writ – Application for writ and Mareva injunction – Arrest of defendant in England under writ ne exeat regno – Grant of Mareva injunction against defendant – Whether writ can be issued to...
Citation pending | 1987-02-19
At the respondent ’ s trial on charges of conspiracy to traffic in dangerous drugs the evidence consisted of statements by a ccomplices, which the respondent disputed, and a written confession made by the respondent to...
1/86. The committee gave judgment against the a pplicant who then a pplied for an order of certiorari to quash the proceedings and judgment of the judicial committee on the grounds that the committee was not a ppointed in a ccordance with section 28 | 1987-01-20
Having obtained leave on 14 October 1986 to apply for an order of certiorari to quash the judgment of the judicial committee of the Buem Traditional Council dated 2 September 1986 in suit No.1/86, the a pplicant...
A.F.R.C./No.75/61 dated 10 October 1979 a ddressed to the Managing Director of the Tema Development Corporation and copied to you | 1987-01-08
This is a matter involving the estate of the late Sampson Kwame Oppong Ampoma who died intestate on 12 May 1984. Letters of a dministration in respect of the estate were taken by the respondents (hereinafter referred...
Citation pending | 1986-12-16
On 4 September 1986 Opanin Osafo Buabeng, counsel for the plaintiff -a pplicant, filed an ex parte motion "praying for leave to serve [the writ of summons] on the third, fourth and fifth defendants in [p.403] the above...
Citation pending | 1986-12-11
In January 1981 the a ppellants, representing the Hong Kong government, and a group of companies, including the respondent company, a greed in principle but subject to contract that the government would grant the group...
Citation pending | 1986-11-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 defendant had a greed to wed the plaintiff to my mind does not constitute any binding contract to marry. The defendant himself was not present and...
Citation pending | 1986-11-10
Solicitor – Negligence – Undertaking – Breach of undertaking – Duty owed to third party – Husband ’ s solicitors giving implied undertaking to wife ’ s solicitors not to release husband ’ s passport – Husband obtaining...
Citation pending | 1986-10-30
(2) On the true construction of r 77(1)(a) of the 1925 rules, ‘ the register ’ referred to the register of the individual title of which the vendor was the registered proprietor and did not extend to the global...
Citation pending | 1986-10-29
Baljinder Singh a ppealed by way of a case stated by the justices for the North East London commission are a a cting in and for the petty sessional division of Redbridge in respect of their a djudication as a...
Citation pending | 1986-10-14
Execution – Writ of fi fa – Priority between competing writs – Effect of erroneous court order – Judgment creditor delivering writ to sheriff for execution – Sheriff obtaining walking possession of goods – Judgment...
Citation pending | 1986-10-10
Held – Condition 11(5) of the National Conditions of Sale did not require a licence to assign to be obtained by the contractual date for completion. Instead, since the precondition to the vendor ’ s exercising his...
763 | 1986-09-30
(2) The remedy for breach of the duty of utmost good faith was not confined to a voidance of the contract and a return of the premium but could include a claim for damages where that would be the only effective remedy....
Citation pending | 1986-08-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BREMPONG II v THE REPUBLIC [1997 -98] GLR 467 -480 the prosecution was that in 1980 the car broke down and the a ppellant took it a way to Kumasi for...
Citation pending | 1986-07-31
Arbitration – Award – Leave to appeal against a ward – Judge refusing leave to appeal to High Court on ground that a rbitrators prima facie right – Applicant a pplying direct to Court of Appeal for leave to appeal on...