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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1980-02-27
Children and young persons – Care proceedings in juvenile court – Care order – Appeal – Who may appeal – Whether right of appeal given only to child itself – Whether parents can appeal on behalf of child – Children and...
Citation pending | 1980-02-22
By a writ issued on 27 July 1979 the plaintiffs, Armour Hick Northern Ltd, Armour Hick Parker Ltd and Armour Hick & Partners Ltd, claimed against the defendants, David Stuart Whitehouse, Robert Michael Hick, Armour...
Citation pending | 1980-02-01
This was an appeal by way of case stated by the justices for the county of North Yorkshire in respect of their a djudication as a magistrates ’ court sitting at York. On 20 April 1979, the respondent, Det Con Michael...
K.39 | 1980-01-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 estate. Attached to the a pplication was the usual inventory of the deceased's properties including an estate house No. K.39, South Suntreso. A caveat...
1. | 1980-01-15
(4) In the absence of special circumstances the proper rate of interest to be a warded to compensate beneficiaries of a trust fund for non-receipt from a trustee of money that ought to have been received was that a...
Citation pending | 1979-12-19
(2) On the question of estoppel, the doctrine of equitable estoppel was not confined to certain defined categories, and where the estoppel a lleged a rose out of a situation where both parties proceeded on the same...
Citation pending | 1979-12-19
Three men where charged with a ttempting to smuggle 1,500 gold Krugerrand coins into England thereby a ttempting to import prohibited or restricted ‘ goods ’ contrary to s 304 of the Customs and Excise Act 1952. They...
Citation pending | 1979-12-14
Contempt of court – Publication concerning legal proceedings – Disclosure of jury room secrets – Whether mere disclosure punishable as contempt – Whether necessary to show tendency to imperil finality of verdict or to...
Citation pending | 1979-12-11
out within s 209(1). In a scertaining if any development on the line of the highway remained to be carried out, it had to be borne in mind that development began to be carried out as soon as any work was done, even if...
6 of 28 March 1980. | 1979-11-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 of the National Union of Seamen which the defendants [p.945] withdrew on or about 3 June 1978 pending the hearing and determination of this suit; AND...
Citation pending | 1979-11-08
In 1964 A, the leasehold owner of premises comprising a flat and garage, let the premises to the defendant company under a written a greement. The a greement contained a covenant by the defendants to use the garage ‘...
Citation pending | 1979-10-15
A foreign airline loaded 2,120 birds in Bombay for carriage to London via Kuwait. The aircraft developed engine trouble in Kuwait and had to remain there longer than was intended. During that period the birds suffered...
Citation pending | 1979-10-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Ambler & Sons Ltd v Bradford Corporation [1902] 2 Ch 585 at 594, CA; and of Scott LJ and Goddard LJ in the long title. (3) On the authorities, if the...
Citation pending | 1979-10-10
(a) (Per Lord Denning MR) The court would not enforce a transaction entered into without independent a dvice where the terms of the transaction were very unfair and where there had been an inequality of bargaining...
7 of 1893 | 1979-09-24
Apaloo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. This matter commenced as an ordinary land suit between two subjects from the Ajumako Traditional Are a in the Central Region. The parties are subjects of two stools...
Citation pending | 1979-07-31
The first defendant (a company known as ‘ Williams ’ ) owned all the shares in the second defendant (a company known as ‘ City ’ ) which in turn owned all the shares in the plaintiff company ( ‘ Belmont ’ ). The...
Citation pending | 1979-07-31
By a writ dated 19 August 1977 and a subsequent statement of claim the plaintiffs, Sir Basil Bartlett Bt, Irene Theodora Bartlett, Henry David Hardington Bartlett, Sheila Bartlett, Norman Alaric Bartlett, Hazel Leslie...
515 in the neighbourhood of the Military Hospital to dismantle a prefabricated structure which had been erected and used f or offices. The plaintiff was detailed to dismantle the structure with another carpenter | 1979-07-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 pelvis, concussion, crush injuries of both legs, both shoulders and neck and both a rms, damage to the tissues of both nostrils; and sexual weakness....
Citation pending | 1979-07-15
There is only one issue of importance in this matter and that is whether the a ppellant is entitled to the disputed house No 24, Block B, Asokwa, Kumasi under the beneficial dispensation of samansiw. Two other matters...
[1979] GLR 223 | 1979-06-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 purchased a house subject to a mortgage at No. 3 South Kweikuma Estates, Sekondi, where he and his family have lived ever since. Again the husband was...
MA/AHL/78/HL/0004 issued by the National Corporation of Nigeria of 118 Broad Street | 1979-06-20
For the principles on which the court a cts in granting injunctions, see 24 Halsbury ’ s Laws (4th Edn) paras 953 – 957, for injunctions restraining disposition of property, see ibid para 1018, and for cases on those...
Citation pending | 1979-06-05
This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal [see sub. nom. National Savings and Credit Bank v. Mensah [1989 -90] 1 G.L.R 611 C.A. a nte setting a side a judgment of Ampiah J. (as he then was) sitting in...
Citation pending | 1979-05-23
On 20 November 1972 the defendants entered into an a greement with the plaintiff to purchase a property for him and a rrange for the modernisation and conversion of the property into flats. Pursuant to the a greement...
26 on Friday | 1979-04-30
Consequent upon an industrial dispute which erupted between the Maritime and Dockworkers' Union of the T.U.C. (Black Star Line branch) and the management of the State Shipping Corporation (Black Star Line,) the...
Citation pending | 1979-04-24
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd v William H Price Ltd [1934] AC 455, [1934] AllER Rep 352, 103 LJPC 115, 151 LT 309, 40 Com Cas 132, 49 Ll L Rep 55, PC, 29 Digest (Repl) 349, 2683.
Citation pending | 1979-04-11
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Court – Inferior court – Local valuation court – Defendants proposing to broadcast television programme on issue pending before local valuation court –...
Citation pending | 1979-04-05
Appeal – Review of exercise of discretion – Duty of a ppellate court – Infant – Wardship proceedings – Judge hearing a pplicant and taking all relevant factors into consideration – Court of Appeal taking hostile a...
Citation pending | 1979-03-16
Tribunal – Appeal on point of law – Tribunal giving incomplete or unsatisfactory definition of ordinary English word in a pplying statute – Value a dded tax tribunal basing decision on inadequate definition of word ‘...
Citation pending | 1979-02-23
For the purpose of investigating into a lleged offences against the Exchange Control Act 1947 Customs and Excise officers, in March 1978, seized documents belonging to several companies. A and B were directors of some...
Citation pending | 1979-02-02
[1979] GLR 566 | 1979-02-01
On 7 November 1978, this court dismissed the defendants' motion which sought for an order from the court to strike out the plaintiff 's action in limine. By the endorsement on her writ the plaintiff's claim against the...
Citation pending | 1979-01-22
By an inter vivos deed of settlement dated 31 January 1958, the settlor directed the trustees of the settlement to apply, during the lives of his children and the life of the survivor of those children ( ‘ the trust...
Citation pending | 1979-01-15
In 1962 the taxpayer company, which carried on a restaurant business, a cquired a ship for £2,449 for the purpose of converting it into a floating restaurant. In carrying out the conversion, the taxpayer company spent...
[1979] GLR 559 | 1978-12-27
Apaloo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant is a clerk employed in the Circuit Court at Tamale. He owns a leasehold premises there. It is house No. CHE. 41. The lessor is the Government of Ghana and...
[1979] GLR 551 | 1978-12-20
JONATHAN YIRENKYI: CLERK: — For that you on 16 September 1977 at Agona Swedru in the Central Magisterial District and within the jurisdiction of this court with intent to defraud one Nana Opuni the wholesale keeper of...
Citation pending | 1978-12-04
Criminal law – Trial – Retrial – Order for retrial – Power of appeal court – Retrial for murder ordered by Hong Kong Court of Appeal – Whether court required to be satisfied of probability of conviction on retrial –...
Citation pending | 1978-11-30
Contempt of court – Witness – Disclosure of identity – Justices in committal proceedings a llowing witness to conceal his identity – Ruling given for reasons of national security – No formal direction or order by...
[1979] GLR 348 | 1978-11-06
The plaintiff sued the defendant at the District Court Grade I, Cape Coast, and claimed from her house No. A. 156 situated at Kurankyekrom, Saltpond. This house was originally a cquired by the plaintiff's father which...
[1979] GLR 387 | 1978-10-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 February 1973; (b) loss of earnings from 19 February 1973 up to the date of judgment at an a verage rate of ¢20 per day. The defendants denied...
Citation pending | 1978-10-16
The plaintiffs occupied a residential property consisting of a house and garden. In the garden there was a greenhouse some 16 feet long built a longside the boundary with the neighbouring property and which had been...
Citation pending | 1978-10-11
Tribunal – Review of decision – Administrative tribunal – Defence Council – Council refusing to issue certificate that deceased died from wound sustained on active service – Council a pplying wrong construction of...
42 | 1978-10-11
The a pplicant, Emmanuel Oduro, is a solicitor's clerk and he brings this a pplication for an order of habeas corpus for the purpose of liberating General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong whom he a lleges to be illegally...
[1979] GLR 330 | 1978-10-09
The plaintiff who describes herself as a widow and a trader by her writ of summons issued out of this court claims against the defendant: "(a) A declaration of title to the premises at New Abossey Okai (at Sakwei South...
[1979] GLR 378 | 1978-08-01
The a pplicant moves the court for an injunction in the nature of quo warranto to restrain the respondent, Nana Kwame Sagoe II, from exercising the functions of mankrado of Agona Kwaman; a cting as such mankrado or...
ZR 75 | 1978-07-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 and the tenant should later go into a ccounts to a scertain the tenant’s expenditure on repairs; and that upon the taking of a ccounts, the defendant...
Citation pending | 1978-07-21
The defendants, Sterling Mansell Ltd, a ppealed against the decision of Mr District Registrar Gavin on 26 May 1978 whereby he dismissed an a pplication by the defendants for an order that all further proceedings in an...
610/76 | 1978-07-13
On 6 April 1978, Nene Akrofi Kubi III, hereinafter referred to as the informant, laid an information by motion ex parte under section 22 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30), before the District Court Grade I,...
[1979] GLR 213 | 1978-06-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 irregularity which has occasioned a substantial miscarriage of justice, thus such conviction, sentence and warrant of imprisonment be declared null and...
Citation pending | 1978-05-24
a ssault causing bodily harm. It followed that on the facts the a ppellant had not committed an offence under s 1(1). The appeal would therefore be a llowed (see p 176 a to e, post).
Citation pending | 1978-05-19
Contempt of court – Witness – Disclosure of identity – Justices in committal proceedings ruling identity of witness not to be disclosed – Ruling given for reasons of national security – Witness permitted to write down...