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3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
C.27 | 1974-02-15
In this a pplication brought under Order 55, r. 25 (1) (a) and (b) of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A), the a pplicant (who is petitioning for divorce in the substantive suit) prays...
Citation pending | 1974-02-11
The memorandum concluded by stating that it had been signed by two directors for and on behalf of the company both before the loan had been made or the security taken and subsequently in a cknowledgment that since the...
Citation pending | 1974-01-31
Practice – Striking out – Action – Vexatious proceedings – Attempt to relitigate issue determined in earlier proceedings – Parties – Different parties in subsequent proceedings – Local authority – Extraordinary audit –...
Citation pending | 1974-01-30
Will – Class gift – Time of a scertainment of class – Gift to wife for life with remainder to relations of testator and wife – Date for a scertaining relations – Shares – Gift to be ‘ shared to my relations also my...
Citation pending | 1974-01-15
The short, but nonetheless, interesting point that a rises on this appeal is whether the learned trial judge was justified in holding that the respondents were entitled to protection under the Land Development...
Citation pending | 1973-12-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 The plaintiff's father was an Asere man from Abola quarter and her father's father, also an Asere man, came from the same Abola quarter. The plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1973-12-19
Damages – Infant – Claim by infant plaintiff – Entitlement of infant on majority to money recovered – Compromise of action – Approval of court – Money paid into court – Terms of settlement providing for payment and...
Citation pending | 1973-12-17
On 5 June 1973, the plaintiff -respondent to this appeal (hereafter referred to simply as the plaintiff) caused to be issued out of the Swedru District Court Grade II a summons against the defendants claiming ¢850...
Citation pending | 1973-12-17
Azu Crabbe C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellants were convicted at the criminal session held at the High Court, Accra, on 29 May 1968, for murder and were sentenced to death by Charles Crabbe J. The...
Citation pending | 1973-12-13
This action was commenced by a specially endorsed writ. The plaintiff's claim is for the sum of ¢5,013.25 plus eight per cent interest, calculated from 15 June 1965 to the date of judgment. After the defendant had...
Citation pending | 1973-12-11
The a ppellants, Argyle Motors (Birkenhead) Ltd, brought an action against the respondents, Birkenhead Corporation ( ‘ the corporation ’ ), claiming a declaration that they were entitled to compensation under s 10(1)...
Citation pending | 1973-12-11
The respondents were convicted of offences of killing game and keeping dogs without the necessary licences. The chief constable, having considered the circumstances of the convictions and the a ntecedent histories of...
Citation pending | 1973-12-05
of Landmark a deed whereby Landmark a greed, inter a lia, to pay $140,000 in cash to A within seven days and to purchase A ’ s shares in Landmark for $180,000, the purchase price to be payable over three years. On the...
Citation pending | 1973-12-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 and extremely extravagant. She destroyed most of the respondent's property including furniture, a slide -projector, hunting trophies and some medical...
39 of 29 June 1973 by the Registrar of Companies. Notwithstanding the liquidation | 1973-12-03
The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) sued the defendant -a pplicants (hereinafter referred to as the defendants) on an originating summons for a declaration that by virtue of a provision...
Citation pending | 1973-11-30
This appeal a rose as the result of the judgment delivered in the plaintiff -respondent's favour by the District Magistrate Grade I, Sunyani. In the court below the plaintiff made a very simple claim against the...
Citation pending | 1973-11-27
1. At a meeting of the Commissioners for the Special Purposes of the Income Tax Acts held on 4 and 5 November 1971, C & K (Construction) Ltd ( ‘ the taxpayer company ’ ) a ppealed against the following a ssessments to...
Citation pending | 1973-11-26
The plaintiff obtained judgment ex parte against the defendants on 4 October 1972 in the District Court Grade I, Nkawkaw. On 20 December 1972, the defendants a pplied to have the said judgment set a side on the ground...
GF 3150 | 1973-11-26
was the owner of the said vehicle. They also a dmitted that the second defendant was the first defendant's driver at the time of the a ccident. They, howeve r, denied the particulars of negligence as a lleged by the...
2 | 1973-11-23
This is an a pplication by summons for the review of my ruling in this matter on 30 March 1973. When the a pplication for leave came up for hearing the respondents raised a number of legal objections to its grant. I...
Citation pending | 1973-11-22
Sowah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. We have listened carefully to the a ble submission made by Mr. Okyere -Darkoh in his a ttack on the conviction of the a ppellant but in the end he had to concede that...
GS 3459 was intercepted at a barrier mounted by a team of Border Guardsmen at Asikuma | 1973-11-20
This is a criminal appeal from the judgment of his honour Judge E. T. A . Torto sitting at Ho Circuit Court wherein upon trial and conviction of the a ppellant herein on 15 August 1973 for the crime of smuggling, the...
Citation pending | 1973-11-19
This appeal raises a small but very important technical point of law and it can be posed thus: Where an a ccused person is tried before a district magistrate and he is found guilty and convicted but he is committed to...
Citation pending | 1973-11-15
Annan J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was found guilty of the murder of a school watchman, Braimah Grumah, by a jury in the High Court, Accra, on 10 November 1972, and in his appeal to this...
[1974] GLR 110 | 1973-11-12
The plaintiff in this action is the younger brother, customary successor and the head of the immediate family of the late lawyer Abadoo of Cape Coast and the defendant is his lawful widow. The controversy between them...
Citation pending | 1973-11-09
By a petition filed with leave of the court on 5 October 1971 the husband prayed for the dissolution of his marriage. On 20 October 1971 the wife a cknowledged service of the petition and intimated that she wished to...
Citation pending | 1973-10-26
In July 1972 the plaintiffs entered into a written a greement with the defendants to buy certain property from them. The time for completion was to be 60 days from the date of the contract but time was not of the...
83 of 1959 | 1973-10-20
This is an appeal from the ruling of the District Court Grade I, Akim Oda, dated 23 August 1973. In that ruling the district court on the a pplication of the plaintiff -respondent (who shall hereafter be referred to...
Citation pending | 1973-10-18
The a ppellants, Erich Beese, a ged 16, and Wolfgang Ostermann, a ged 18, a ppealed against the judgment of the Divisional Court of the Queen ’ s Bench Divisionc (Lord Widgery CJ, Cusack and Mars-Jones JJ) dated 11...
2 | 1973-10-09
The a pplication was heard on its merits and dismissed on 20 July but reasons were reserved. Due to the long legal vacation the court could not give the reasons earlier as it had wished. Originally, the a pplicants, in...
Citation pending | 1973-10-08
In this action the plaintiff claims against the defendant, a declaration of title, recovery of possession and damages for trespass to a piece of land said to be situate at Lartebiokorshie, the boundaries of which are...
Citation pending | 1973-10-01
from suffering financial loss. Under the terms of the bonds TOSG was entitled to call in the bond moneys from the bank as soon as the operator concerned became insolvent and TOSG was required to pay back to the bank...
15 dated 28 March 1969... | 1973-08-20
The a ppellant is the Kyidomhene of the New Juaben Traditional Are a. On 20 August 1973, he filed a "chieftaincy petition" in the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs. The prayer of the petition was for the "Destoolment of...
Citation pending | 1973-08-08
This is an a pplication for a stay of execution by the defendants as judgment debtors. The a pplication is brought under Order 42, r. 16 (1) (b) of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A),...
Citation pending | 1973-07-31
This appeal concerns the a pplication of a general rule of customary law. The relevant rule of the customary law is that unless a chief's private property is earmarked when he a scends to the stool, it becomes mixed up...
Citation pending | 1973-07-30
Petition of right – Colonial stock – Right of any person claiming to be interested in stock to present petition of right – Beneficial interest – Claim by stockholder to interest on stock – Suppliant not at date of...
36 of 1959 | 1973-07-30
Citation pending | 1973-07-23
On 23 July 1973, the respondents to this a pplication initiated proceedings against the first a pplicant herein before the judicial committee of the Ekumfi Traditional Council. The summons issued against the a pplicant...
Citation pending | 1973-07-18
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Pending proceedings – Expression of opinion on issue before court for determination – Risk that fair trial of action would be prejudiced – Relevance of...
Citation pending | 1973-07-18
This is an appeal and cross -appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, in which it granted a declaration of title to a portion of land claimed by the plaintiff, damages for trespass and an injunction...
Citation pending | 1973-07-17
This is an appeal from the decision of the Fante Nyankumasi District Court Grade II dated 25 September 1970. That decision dismissed a claim by the plaintiff -a ppellant (who shall hereafter be referred to simply as...
Citation pending | 1973-07-16
By a summons dated 15 March 1973 the Attorney General, on the relation of the Bedfordshire County Council, claimed (i) an injunction restraining the defendants, the trustees of the Howard United Reformed Church,...
2 of 1895 | 1973-07-16
a pplied to join the Attorney -General also as a defendant. There is no doubt that these two defendants were sued as representatives of the plaintiff’s employers, that is, the State. By their statement of defence, the...
16 of 1967 reversed the decision of both the traditional council and the committee. The plaintiffs unsucc essfully a pplied to the High Court | 1973-07-16
Sowah J. A. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the ruling of the Sekondi High Court in which the court held that certiorari will not lie to quash the finding or decision of the National...
Citation pending | 1973-07-09
On 11 April 1962, the plaintiff -a pplicant -respondent (hereinafter called the plaintiff), who did not a ppear at the hearing of this appeal, filed in the High Court, Accra, a writ of summons, entitled E. T. A. Sappor...
WR 2324 which the defendant purchased from the plaintiff and which amount | 1973-07-04
In 1971 the plaintiff sued out a writ in the District Court Grade I, Dunkwa, claiming the sum of N¢440.00 "being balance of an amount due and owing by the defendant to the plaintiff in respect of one 2 -ton Bedford...
Citation pending | 1973-06-29
The petitioner, husband, seeks dissolution of his marriage with the respondent on the sole ground that the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation. He says that the respondent has deserted him; that she has...
Citation pending | 1973-06-22
Apaloo J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The Republic a ppeals against the ruling of Anterkyi J. in a murder case decided on 21 January 1972. By that ruling, the learned judge held "that no sufficient case has...
C. 123/69 Kate Cromwell .. .. .. .. Plaintiff | 1973-06-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 late Joseph O'Neil Cromwell. The late Joseph O'Neil Cromwell by his will bequeathed his property at Agona junction to the late George O'Neil Cromwell...
Citation pending | 1973-06-11
By notice of motion dated 16 February 1973 the a pplicant, Mohammed Azam, a pplied to the Divisional Court of the Queen ’ s Bench Division for an order that a writ of habeas corpus should issue to the governor of...