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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1973-06-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 This is an appeal against the decision of the District Court Grade II, Kumasi, whereby that court granted an order for possession of a rented room to...
22 of 1944 a distinction is drawn between the procedure to be followed where the Land Court decides to re -hear a cause itself and where it decides to refer the case back to the Court below for re -he a ring. In the latter event it is expressly provided that the re -hearing shall be de novo and this necessitates the original judgment being set a side. But the words | 1973-06-08
The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter called the plaintiff), claimed from the defendants -a ppellants (hereinafter called the first and second defendants), jointly and severally the sum of twenty cedis being the value...
7 of the White Book | 1973-06-01
The plaintiff issued a writ, filed on 24 January 1973, claiming as head of family and customary successor of the late J. K. Agyepong, "(a) A declaration that the self -a cquired and family properties of which the late...
GL 9331. The defendants | 1973-05-29
The plaintiffs herein have sued the defendants for damages for the death of one Mr. K.M. Eyeson, resulting from the a lleged negligence on the part of the driver of the defendants land rover No. GL 9331. The...
Citation pending | 1973-05-28
This a pplication is brought by a complainant in a criminal case pending before the Fosu District Court II praying for transfer of the said case to either the circuit or the district court grade I for trial and...
D974/3 Knutsford Avenue | 1973-05-28
In 1954, the respondent as landlord granted a lease of a shop in a house known as No. D974/3 Knutsford Avenue, Accra, for a period of ten years. After various a ssignments, the a ppellant became the a ssignee of the...
Citation pending | 1973-05-25
The a ppellant won his claim for damages for slander in the District Court Grade II, Konongo, lost an appeal to the High Court, Kumasi, and then a ppealed to this court to re -establish the judgment of the trial court...
3/73. 15 May 1973 | 1973-05-15
[1973] 2 GLR 39 -40 (a) on a question of law; and (b) where there has been a miscarriage of justice. Where an a pplication is made under (a), it is important that details of the law a pplicable should be given. Counsel...
Citation pending | 1973-05-11
By an originating summons dated 21 December 1971, as a mended pursuant to an order of Master Lubbock dated 16 October 1972, the plaintiffs, the Banbury Borough Council, sought the determination of the court on the...
Citation pending | 1973-05-10
By an a greement in writing the plaintiffs a greed to buy certain property from the defendants. The time for completion was to be 60 days after the date of a greement but time was not of the essence in that respect....
Citation pending | 1973-04-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 before handing over the keys. I would have known if the keys had not been handed over to the defendants, and I say therefore that the keys were handed...
CS. 137/72 | 1973-04-19
The plaintiff sued the defendants for "general damages for injuries he sustained whilst at work on 5 April 1971 through the negligence of the defendant company." When the case was called on 8 February 1973 for hearing,...
AG 5744 | 1973-04-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff sued the defendants herein for failing to make good expenses he incurred on their behalf when at their request he engaged a lawyer to...
Citation pending | 1973-04-09
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, in which the court dismissed the claim for a declaration of' title to the two parcels of land described in the writ of summons. The plaintiff instituted...
Citation pending | 1973-04-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 quoted a llegations," and for a ruling about which of the two rival stool houses was entitled to occupy Ntonso stool. The a ppellant's a pplication was...
Citation pending | 1973-04-06
Azu Crabbe C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted at the Criminal Session held in the High Court, Koforidua, on 3 March 1972, before Quashie -Sam J. and a jury, of the murder of one Osei...
Citation pending | 1973-04-04
‘ We, the Commissioners who heard the appeal held that the [taxpayer] was the person chargeable under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act 1952 as the person who received the interest and is chargeable under Case III...
Citation pending | 1973-03-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The a ppellant who was also a member of the search party had come on the scene later and had gone to the aid of his friends. It was the contention of...
C360/11 .. .. | 1973-03-30
On 29 January 1972, a motion was filed by counsel for the a pplicant for letters of a dministration in respect of the estate of one Andreas Kariyavoulas. On 1 February 1972, Edusei J. dismissed the a pplication on the...
2115. I shall in this ruling refer to this Ghanaian company as the company. | 1973-03-30
This is an a pplication under sections 218 and 220 of the Companies Code, 1963 (Act 179), that the court order: (a) The Registrar of Companies to appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate the a ffairs of...
Citation pending | 1973-03-29
The parties, who were Hindus, were married in July 1949 in Calcutta at a religious ceremony. In 1957 they stopped living together and the wife returned to her family. In 1961 the husband came to the United Kingdom and...
The next question raised concerned the interpretation of section 178 | 1973-03-16
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 He delivered the ruling of the court. On 19 January 1973 this court gave a nswers to the following questions of law which were said to have a risen in...
G.8/2 | 1973-03-09
On 5 January 1973, the plaintiff -respondent (who shall hereafter be referred to simply as the plaintiff) issued out of this court a writ of summons against the defendant -a pplicant (who will also hereafter be...
Citation pending | 1973-02-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The plaintiff in this suit is the wife of the late Dr. Gabriel Blankson -Hemans. She was married under the Marriage Ordinance, Cap. 127 (1951 Rev.), to...
Citation pending | 1973-02-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 nagging him. As a result he was disturbed in his work and he developed high blood pressure. He retired from his work as a result of ill -health which...
Citation pending | 1973-02-20
Highway – Dedication – Evidence – Provisional map – Dispute – Determination of quarter sessions – Effect – Issue whether path a public right of way as shown on map – Decision of quarter sessions that path a public path...
GE 6148 belonging to the second defendant from Oda direction towards Agona Swedru. On reaching Nsaba the first defendant drove so negligently that he hit Ama Kate Gyedua | 1973-02-20
On 13 February 1970, the plaintiff as an a dministrator of the estates of Ama Kate Gyedua and Kofi Yesu both late of Agona Nsaba issued out of this court a writ of summons claiming damages from the defendants for and...
Citation pending | 1973-02-19
The a ppellants, the local planning authority, made a tree preservation ordera under s 29(1)b of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962. In a ccordance with s 29(1)(a) the order prohibited the ‘ wilful destruction ’ of...
Citation pending | 1973-02-16
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Pending proceedings – Litigation a ctively in suit before the court – Public interest in fair comment on issues raised by litigation – Issues raised by...
Citation pending | 1973-02-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 It is the contention of the plaintiff that the defendant a gain refused to comply with the terms of the a rbitration a ward, but continued to employ the...
Citation pending | 1973-02-13
B raised no objection to the use of the vehicle; nor did he point out that the a ppropriate vehicle to carry the load was a ‘ low-loader ’ , which the defendants did not possess. The vehicle started on its journey and,...
Citation pending | 1973-02-12
The respondent, a legal practitioner resident in Kumasi, bought from a retailer in Kumasi, a carton of beer manufactured by the a ppellants in their factory at Accra. Two days after the purchase, the respondent opened...
2243 | 1973-02-08
In an earlier a pplication, the a pplicant a pplied to be joined as a defendant in the suit herein. The said a pplication was heard and, in a considered ruling, the court on 6 November 1972, refused the a pplication....
Citation pending | 1973-02-05
Broadcasting – Authority – Statutory duty – Content of programmes – Independent Broad-casting Authority – Duty of authority to satisfy themselves so far as possible that programmes include nothing offending good taste...
Citation pending | 1973-02-02
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 He delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted before Edward Wiredu J. in the High Court of Justice, Central Region, Cape Coast,...
Citation pending | 1973-02-01
After the death intestate of Frederick Obodai Torto, his widow a pplied for letters of a dministration for herself and on behalf of her five children. The deceased's brother entered a caveat to the a pplication. After...
7/5 | 1973-01-30
It was an American judge, Chimera J., who said in Avnet v. Avnet 204 Misc. 760, 124 N.Y.S. 2d 517 (Mun. Ct. of N.Y.C. 1953) quoted by Joseph Goldstein and Jay Katz in The Family and the Law (New York, 1965), p.566...
Citation pending | 1973-01-16
The a ppellants were a rraigned before the District Court Grade I, Wenchi, on a charge of “Breach of Aliens Compliance Order” [sic.] contrary to sections 2 (2) and 25 (1) (d) of the Aliens Act, 1963 (Act 160). Section...
2 | 1973-01-08
This was a motion brought by the plaintiff -a pplicant "for enlargement of time within which to renew a writ and to renew the writ for service on the defendants." An earlier motion, brought by him for an order setting...
Citation pending | 1972-12-21
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 a djourned three times on each occasion because the petitioner and her counsel were absent. The case was finally heard on 16 November 1972 in the...
Citation pending | 1972-12-19
(a) Where a third party undertook, in a quasi-judicial or a rbitral capacity, the role of deciding as between two other parties a question, the determination of which required the third party to hold the scales fairly...
16 A new street commencing in Argyle Street near its northerly junction with Conway Street and terminating at the Haymarket | 1972-12-15
BUCKLEY LJ read the following judgment of the court at the invitation of Russell LJ. In this case the plaintiff company a ppeals from a judgment of Foster J on two preliminary questions which the district registrar at...
Citation pending | 1972-12-15
Azu Crabbe Ag.C.J. delivered the ruling of the court. The a pplicant was convicted at the High Court, Accra, on 28 April 1970, upon an [p.206] indictment containing eight counts charging him with extortion and was...
Citation pending | 1972-12-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (3) That we went to Nana Osafo Ababio II, the then Krontihene of Effiduase and informed him of the meeting which was scheduled to come on 20 August...
[1973] GLR 258 | 1972-12-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 years and during that period they, together with one Farhart Farhart, formed some sort of loose partnership called, Gabriel Abboud & Co. (Properties)....
42 of 1958 | 1972-12-11
Apaloo J.A. delivered the judgment of himself and Amissah J.A. The respondent is a young woman who in 1966 was employed as a pump a ttendant at an Agip petrol filling station in Kumasi. She was then a ged 22 and was in...
Citation pending | 1972-12-07
This is an appeal against the judgment of his worship M. J. E. O. Otchere wherein the plaintiff - a ppellant was non -suited in respect of his claim and judgment entered in favour of the defendant with costs a ssessed...
Citation pending | 1972-12-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 company's disapproval of his conduct of taking money from the cash box for his personal use without first seeking the a pproval of the company. The...
Citation pending | 1972-12-01
The taxpayer claimed child relief in respect of his son who was over the age of 16 at the commencement of the year of a ssessment. The son was a ttending on a full-time basis at an intensive training unit ( ‘ the unit...
P. 186571 | 1972-11-30
In 1961 the registered proprietors of certain land being indebted to their bank deposited the land certificate with the bank as security for their liabilities to the bank and undertook to execute a legal mortgage in...