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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
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The a ccused, a trader in domestic a ppliances, gave to householders personal loan proposal forms a ddressed to a finance company to enable them to borrow money from the company to pay for the a ppliances. In order to...
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Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Pending proceedings – Risk of interference with course of justice – No serious risk of interference – No intention to influence pending proceedings –...
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M, a member of the House of Representatives for a constituency in Ceylon, wrote to the Minister of Lands and Land Development recommending that the Vincent Estate, which was in his constituency and was owned by the...
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By an a mended writ and statement of claim issued on 30 July 1979 the Attorney General at the relation of Tracey Sandra Helen Tilley, a councillor of the defendant local authority, the London Borough of Wandsworth ( ‘...
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or tentative view that there was an oral a greement that the performance bond was subject to English law and jurisdiction. Furthermore, it could not be implied that the performance bond was governed by English law...
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Held – To establish their claim the a ssured must, first, satisfy the court that the circumstances, as known at the time of a bandoning the voyage, were, on reasonable a ssessment, such as to warrant the inference that...
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Case Stated – Magistrates ’ courts – Refusal to commit – Whether appeal by way of case stated – Extradition proceedings – Magistrates ’ Courts Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo 6 & 1 Eliz 2 c 55), s 87(1).
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This was an appeal by George Atkinson against an order of the Queen ’ s Bench Divisional Court (Lord Widgery CJ, Ashworth and Griffiths JJ) dated 21 December 1971, and reported at p 31, a nte, upholding the conviction...
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Will – Construction – Evidence of sense in which testator used term – Special sense for particular occasion distinguished from habitual sense – Gift to ‘ worthy causes ’ – Charitable intent – Contemporary document...
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Appeal by the Crown from a decision of Singleton J dated 8 July 1948, ([1948] 2 AllER 653) on a Case stated by the Special Commissioners of Income Tax. The a ssessment had been discharged both by the Special...
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In the autumn of 1995 the defendants placed a number of orders for computer games and hardware with the plaintiffs. The first and largest order provided for payment by 30 November 1995, but also that the defendants...
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The defendants were, as freehold owners of certain rectorial land, the lay rectors of a parish. As such, they were under a common law obligation to repair the chancel of the parish church. The statutory power to...
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By a charter dated 6 August 1968 the charterers chartered the vessel Damianos from the owners to proceed to Algiers to load oil and being so loaded to proceed as ordered on signing bills of lading to one or two ports...
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(ii) a ssuming that an enumeration of purposes which were non-charitable could take the place of an enumeration of beneficiaries, (a) the purposes to which the income of the trust funds was to be a pplied were not so...
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(iv) a ccordingly, the landlords were entitled to increase the rent of the premises, and the case must be remitted to the county court to value the transferred burden and liability.
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David Michael Nuttall, David Percival, David Skinner, Graham Skinner, Graham Smith, Arthur Wellon and Margaret Eileen Wholey, elected members of the Clay Cross Urban District Council ( ‘ the council ’ ), a ppealed...
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The defendant, Charles Edward Curtin, appeal against so much of an order made by Donaldson J on 16 December 1970 as a djudged that the amount of damages to be recovered by the plaintiff, Albert Thomas Ashcroft, be...
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In previous litigation the plaintiffs had sued the author and certain printers and publishers of an infringing work and obtained a judgment giving them damages for infringement and conversion against the printers and...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 9. H.C. 5.11.68 KANJARGA v. THE REPUBLIC (Edusei J., Tamale) criminal law and procedure sentencing powers of circuit court whether circuit court has...
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The plaintiff -respondents, Raziel Construction Ltd (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs) instituted an action in the Circuit Court, Accra against the defendant a pplicant (hereinafter referred to as the...
C 434/3
The a pplicants were ordered by an Accra district court to vacate house No. C 434/3, Asylum - Down, Accra occupied by them as tenants. They a ppealed against that order. Their a pplication for stay of execution failed...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY v ATTORNEY -GENERAL [1997 -98] 1 GLR 378 -461 State interference under a rticle 37(2)( a) justification -Constitution, 1992, a rts...
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C.A 29.768 JANTUAH and others v. THE REPUBLIC (Akufo -Addo C.J., Apaloo, Amissah JJ.A) Courts – Jurisdiction – High – Court – whether High Court exercises a ppellate jurisdiction in trial based on can be brought under...
[1960] GLR 195
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Note. — In Coleman v. Shang [1959] G.L.R. 391, the Court of Appeal expressed the opinion that the case of of the paper -writing bearing the date 9th day...
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I have this morning had the a dvantage of reading beforehand the judgment which my brother Adade JSC has just read and I agree completely with him that this appeal is without merit. I have also already read the leading...
I have no personal knowledge of the proceeds.
I have this morning had the a dvantage of reading beforehand the judgment which my brother Adade JSC has just read and I agree completely with him that this appeal is without merit. I have also already read the leading...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 4. HC. 12.9.68 FULANI v. THE REPUBLIC (Edusei J., Sekondi) option to pay a fine even though the court has power to do so, a recommendation for...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (4) Gatti v Shoosmith [1939] Ch 841; [1939] 3 AllER 916; 161 LT 208, CA. "(i) The plaintiff a ppealed from the judgment of the Court of Appeal and the...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 DOLPHYNE v SPEED LINE STEVEDORING CO L TD and Another [1997 -98] 1GLR 786 -798 Court to exercise power of court of Appeal to dismiss claim -Companies...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 10 H.C 6.11.68 COSSIER and others v. AFVADITSI (Francois J., Ho) sinning. Application granted. Counsel: W.T. Doku for the plaintiffs. A. Djabatey, State...
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Delivered the first judgment at the invitation of Abban CJ. This is an appeal from the decision of the judicial committee of the National House of Chiefs by which they a ffirmed, by a majority of three to two, the...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 1 12 H.C. 7.11.68 ASUNKE v. JAJA and Another (Edusei J., Tamale)
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On 7 November 1991 the plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff), Ebusuapanyin Kofi Prah, the head of the Adwenadze family of Ekumfi Adansimaim, took action against the defendant -a ppellant...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Akufo -Addo v Catheline and another [ 1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 937 -1022 entitled to pronounce on a mendment suo motu and without notice to parties – High...
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Evidence – written statements – Admissibility – effect of High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954, order 37, 2,500 damages for personal injuries caused by their negligence. The defendants contended that the a ccident...
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Evidence – written statements – Admissibility – effect of High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954, order 37, 2,500 damages for personal injuries caused by their negligence. The defendants contended that the a ccident...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 effect. Dictum of Abban J (as he then was) in Republic v Military Tribunal; Ex parte Ofosu -Amaah [1973J 2 High Court were clearly inconsistent with and...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 Thus while Mr. Joe Reindorf understands the phrase "persons held in preventive custody . . . since 1974" a ppearing in E.I. 46 to include those...
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This is an a pplication for an order of prohibition to be directed against the District Magistrate Grade II, Duayaw Nkwanta, to forbid him from hearing and determining a criminal charge of stealing against the a ccused...
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OF AMUA – SEKYI J.S.C. Amua – Sekyi J..S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a pplicant, Paul Laryea, offered himself as a candidate in the Kinka Electoral Are a in Accra in elections due to be held under the...
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The petitioner, Barbara Ribeiro, and the respondent, Charles, were married in London in 1953. They have four children. In 1980 the petitioner filed a petition for divorce which included a prayer for financial...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 7. H.C. 17.10.68 SBAITI v. THE REPUBLIC (Archer J., Accra) unreported), it is obvious that the Court of Appeal was dealing with the particular case...
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4 July 1997 commence business from the Registrar -General's Department. The a pplicant company was incorporated to carryon the business of banking. The respondent was one of the first directors of the company. He...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Yiadom and others v Konadu and others [1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 1094 – 1101 C.A Practice and procedure – Appeal – Findings of fact – Appellate court not to...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 REPUBLIC v TOMMY THOMPSON BOOKS L TD and Others [1997 -98] I GLR 515 -611 and spirit of Constitution -Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29), s j 85...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 was null and void and it would be quashed. Republic v High Court Judge Wuaku [1991] 1 W ASC 841, SC exercise its discretion and the rules had set the...
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By an indenture dated 28 September 1973 and registered as LR No 374/78, the respondent in this appeal a cquired a leasehold interest in a large tract of the James Town stool land on the Winneba Road known as Korkor...
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www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (3) Mcleod v St Allbyn [1899] AC 549. (4) R v Gray [1900J 2 QB 36. ApPLICATION by the plaintiff -a pplicant, to the High Court, Ho to attach the...
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Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by the District Court, Nsawam, on two counts, namely, (i) careless driving, contrary to section 18 (1) of the Road Traffic Ordinance,1...
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Akuffo JSC delivered the first ruling at the invitation of Aikins JSC. This is an a pplication for an order that: "The proceedings and the ruling or judgment of the High Court of justice per Essilfie -Bondzie JA...