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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1968-01-15
This was an action begun by writ issued on 16 September 1966. In it the plaintiff companies, Allam & Co Ltd, Advertising Sites Ltd and National Solus Sites Ltd claimed an injunction to restrain the defendant company,...
[1968] GLR 53 | 1968-01-15
This appeal presents no difficulty whatsoever, as the a bundant evidence including that given by the a ppellant himself at the trial a mply supports the verdict of murder returned by the jury after they had been...
[1968] GLR 37 | 1968-01-15
OLLENNU J.A. delivered the ruling of the court. The a ppellants who were convicted by the High Court, Accra, on 10 May 1965, a ppealed to the Court of Appeal against their convictions and sentences. The a ppeals were...
[1968] GLR 1 | 1968-01-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 time that he collected the three from U.T.C. he pulled out ¢380.00 and a sked to pay the money through the police. But they refused. The a ppellant did...
[1968] GLR 9 | 1968-01-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 [His lordship stated the facts as summarised in the headnote and continued:] For my part, I do not think there can be any sound reason which should...
Citation pending | 1967-12-20
Per Curiam: the former position (as under the revoked RSC, Ord 16, r 11) may still prevail in the county court (see p 572, letter i, and p 573, letter a, post; and cf CCR, Ord 15, r 2).
Citation pending | 1967-12-08
I have got to compensate him for all that he has suffered and will suffer; I have to compensate him for his loss of wages at the rate of £2 a week net, bearing in mind that some deduction must be made for the receipt...
Citation pending | 1967-11-28
At the employers ’ steel works molten metal tapped from a furnace was conducted by a through or launder down an incline to a ladle. In the process there was inevitably some overspill of molten metal on the landing...
Citation pending | 1967-11-24
Legitimacy – Jurisdiction – Declaration – Whether court has jurisdiction to make a declaration of the legitimacy of some person other than the petitioner – Whether a declaration on a bare claim for it should be made, a...
SUD/1/65 | 1967-11-22
By a cif contract made in Bombay between Indian nationals the sellers a greed to ship cotton by 31 May 1966 for a price expressed in rupees, the contract providing for the buyers to bear any difference in the rate of...
Citation pending | 1967-11-21
This was an action by the plaintiff claiming to limit his liability for damage to property caused by a collision between his motor vessel, the Annie Hay, and the motor vessel Rosewarne in Falmouth Harbour on 7 August...
Citation pending | 1967-10-20
Counsel for the third party says with force that the Pedestrian Crossing Places (Traffic) Regulations, 1941, were in the nature of things designed to protect pedestrians, whereas the Traffic Signs Regulations and...
Citation pending | 1967-10-18
The owner of a small mobile crane hired it out to a builder in November, 1960. On 27 February 1961, the uppermost part of the crane collapsed because the clearance between the rear roller of the crane and the bottom of...
Citation pending | 1967-10-17
The owners of a crane-excavator entered into a written contract for the hire of the excavator for the purpose of laying main sewerage pipes. A driver was supplied by the owners with the excavator. Clause 8 of the...
Citation pending | 1967-10-13
By writ issued on 11 October 1965, the plaintiff, Mohammed Avais, claimed damages against Hartford Shankhouse and District Workingmen ’ s Social Club and Institute for loss sustained by reason of the defendant club...
You the Dokosis are not the Kofime clan | 1967-08-22
On the death of Kwaku Agbada, Mankrado of Gbadzeme and occupant of what the plaintiffs call the Edzekpa Kofi stool, and the defendants, the Kofi stool, the plaintiffs enstooled one Christian Dokosi in his stead. They...
Citation pending | 1967-07-28
(i) (per Willmer and Danckwerts LJJ) in estimating the notional rent all circumstances reasonably influencing an intending occupier should be taken into consideration, and the fact that there were circumstances in the...
Citation pending | 1967-07-27
This is a motion for a stay of execution of the order made by the disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council against Mr. A. A. Aboagye -da Costa. By that order he was suspended for twelve months as a legal...
Citation pending | 1967-07-24
Judgment – Judicial decision as authority – Commonwealth country – Sphere of law where policy of the law largely determined by judicial opinion in the particular country – Law settled in country concerned – Libel –...
Citation pending | 1967-07-12
By a deed dated 17 July 1941, and made between Bertram Baden (“the settlor”), Matthew Hall & Co Ltd (“the company”) and Edwin Baden, Bertram Baden, Peter Duke Doulton, Thomas Leslie Arthur Graham and Sydney Kindler...
Citation pending | 1967-05-30
Divorce – Foreign decree – Nationality and habitual residence – Decree granted to wife in Germany – Wife German national then habitually residing in Germany – Husband domiciled in England – Whether decree recognised by...
Citation pending | 1967-05-11
The a ppellant was employed by the respondents as a motor fitter. His work included operating an emergency breakdown service on a lternative nights and week-ends. For this purpose he was required to live in a flat...
Citation pending | 1967-05-09
Execution – Charging order – Land – Receiver – Jurisdiction to appoint – Master without jurisdiction to appoint receiver – Appointment made by judge on appeal from refusal of master to appoint – Discretion –...
Citation pending | 1967-04-26
This was an appeal by the valuation officer from an order of the Court of Appeal (Sellers, Davies and Russell LJJ), dated 20 December 1965 and reported [1966] 1 AllER 602, a llowing an appeal by the ratepayers, the...
Citation pending | 1967-04-21
Costs – Security for costs – “Plaintiff ordinarily resident out of the jurisdiction” – Action for breach of promise of marriage – Plaintiff a Ghanaian national resident in England since 1956 – Plaintiff stated...
Citation pending | 1967-03-23
Certiorari – Statutory tribunal – Determination of tribunal to be final – Application to Foreign Compensation Commission – Application of a kind into which the commission had jurisdiction to inquire – Alleged error of...
Citation pending | 1967-03-15
This was appeal by Thomas Athanassiadis against the dismissal on 5 October 1966 by the Divisional Court (Lord Parker CJ Winn LJ and Widgery J) of his a pplication for a writ of habeas corpus. The a pplication to the...
Citation pending | 1967-03-01
Estate Duty – Exemption and remission – Purchase – Property passing by reason of purchase – Annuity bequeathed to wife on condition that she devised one moiety of fund to which she was entitled at time of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1967-02-21
This was appeal by the tenant from a judgment of the Divisional Court of the Queen ’ s Bench Division, dated 24 November 1966, and reported at [1967] 1 AllER 188, dismissing the tenant ’ s appeal by way of Case Stated...
Citation pending | 1967-02-17
Will – Lapse – Statutory exception from lapse – Residuary bequest to illegitimate child – Legitimation and death of child leaving issue before death of testatrix – Whether estate of legitimated child entitled to take...
Citation pending | 1966-12-08
Only surtax was a ssessed, a lthough on the strict wording of s 408(1) the amount a vailable of the £9,100 was to be regarded as income for the purposes of income tax and would thus be liable also to income tax at the...
Citation pending | 1966-12-01
This was an appeal by the defendants, Griffin Finance (a firm) from the judgment of the Presiding Judge of the Court of Passage of the City of Liverpool given on 6 May 1966, whereby judgment was entered for the...
Citation pending | 1966-11-24
This is a special Case Stated for the opinion of the High Court pursuant to s 6 of the Agricultural (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1954b, as a mended by the Agricultural Land Tribunal, Eastern Are a, with regard to...
[1966] GLR 754 | 1966-11-21
On 17 November 1966 this court gave leave to the plaintiff to a mend her writ of summons and statement of claim which were filed together. I now set out to give my reasons for a llowing the a mendments. The plaintiff's...
[1966] GLR 751 | 1966-11-17
The plaintiffs have instituted an action for damages in conversion against the defendants herein and a preliminary point a rose for a rgument as to whether the claim was maintainable. Counsel for the second and third...
Citation pending | 1966-11-14
This was an appeal by the plaintiffs, Askinex Ltd from a decision of His Honour Judge Block given at the Mayor ’ s and City of London Court on 5 April 1966, that judgment should be entered for the defendants, that the...
[1966] GLR 732 | 1966-11-11
By his will of 16 September 1964 the testator Philip Melanchton Kwadwo Tufuor devised the realty comprised in his residuary estate as follows: "I give unto and to Abena Kwabena my sister and Kwame Poku my grandson...
[1966] GLR 697 | 1966-11-04
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant in this case was charged before the District Magistrate's Court, Accra New Town, with the offence of fraud by false pretence contrary to section 131...
Citation pending | 1966-11-04
This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Accra, refusing to grant an a pplication for a writ of habeas corpus made by the a ppellant Dr. Horst Schumann, a German national resident in Ghana and who was on...
Citation pending | 1966-11-02
Will – Contingent interest – Share of residue to be divided, after life interests, among such of named charities as were in existence as independent charities – Three named charities became subject to National Health...
[1966] GLR 765 | 1966-10-31
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the reasons for the opinion of the court. On 31 October 1966, this court gave a negative answer to the question of law reserved for the opinion of this court by the learned judge of the High...
Citation pending | 1966-10-24
The defendant, whose offer of a plea of guilty to receiving £6,200, part of the proceeds of a robbery of the plaintiff bank of £52,250, was not a ccepted, was convicted of the robbery and was sentenced. His appeal was...
[1966] GLR 678 | 1966-10-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The a pplicants, Royal Exchange Assurance, were served with third party notice at the request of the defendant who has been sued by the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1966-10-06
The husband and wife married in 1928, and in 1929 a son was born to them. In 1936 the husband and wife separated. In 1946 a decree absolute of divorce was obtained by the wife, no prayer for a ncillary relief having...
Citation pending | 1966-08-12
Extradition – Discharge of fugitive – Discretion – Whether unconditional undertakings by foreign government as to the trial of the fugitive should be a ccepted by the English court – Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (44 &...
Citation pending | 1966-07-20
The first taxpayer a ppealed to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax against the following a ssessments to surtax: 1954 – 55 (a dditional) £1,577; 1955 – 56 £6,500; 1956 – 57 (a dditional) £11,846; 1957 – 58 (a...
Citation pending | 1966-07-05
Estate Duty – Exemption and remission – Purchase – Property passing by reason of purchase – Annuity bequeathed to wife on condition that she devised one moiety of fund to which she was entitled at time of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1966-06-30
This was a petition by the husband for dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife ’ s desertion, the husband a sking for the discretion of the court in respect of his own a dultery. The wife by her answer denied...
[1966] GLR 649 | 1966-06-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 said document. The plaintiff's case is that the transaction was strictly business, and that no sentimental considerations influenced the conduct of the...
[1966] GLR 560 | 1966-06-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 In passing it is necessary to point out that what the witness called a caterpillar was in fact a 24 foot long grader. This is the whole of the evidence...