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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1966-05-10
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of Paull J dated 2 December 1965, dismissing his action against the defendants for damages for personal injuries sustained in the course of his employment with the...
Citation pending | 1966-05-09
A girl a ged eight, was injured in a motor a ccident. From the time of her being injured until her death nearly a year later she was unconscious and without pain and without a ppreciation of what had happened to her....
Citation pending | 1966-04-01
The court expressly refrained from expressing any opinion on the “interesting, important and difficult question” which would arise if the contract were ultra vires, viz, whether the plaintiff company having fully...
Citation pending | 1966-03-16
The plaintiff ’ s cause of action in negligence against his employers for a disease contracted during his employment a ccrued (if at all) not later than January, 1962, when he left their employment. The last meeting...
Citation pending | 1966-03-04
On a ssignment of an underlease the a ssignee, S, covenanted to observe the tenant ’ s covenants in the underlease, which included a covenant not to assign or underlet without the reversioner ’ s consent. The...
6033 and portrayed it as a speech by Dr. K.A. Busia | 1966-02-24
This case commenced with a motion on notice filed by the Attorney -General on 10 November 1994 a sking the court for an order: "(i) of committal or a ttachment of the first and second respondents and to commit them to...
Citation pending | 1966-02-23
This was an appeal by way of case stated from a decision of the justices for the county borough of Northampton who, on 8 October 1965, convicted the respondent, Derek Frederick Cole, of driving a motor vehicle on a...
Citation pending | 1966-02-17
Held – It was an invariable condition of relief from forfeiture for non-payment of rent that the a rrears, if not already a vailable to the lessor, should be paid within a time specified by the court and it followed...
[1966] GLR 145 | 1966-02-11
This is an appeal from the judgment of the learned circuit judge dismissing the claim of the plaintiff in respect of a debt of £G250 owed to him on the grounds that, "I find that the plaintiff has failed to prove by a...
Citation pending | 1966-02-02
This was an appeal by the husband, Hugon Erdman Becker, from a judgment of His Honour Judge Ingress Bell QC sitting as a special commissioner in divorce at Preston, dismissing the husband ’ s petition for divorce,...
Citation pending | 1965-12-20
Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind, a voluntary organisation within the meaning of s 30 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, occupied for welfare purposes under s 29 a hereditament comprising (i) a large...
Citation pending | 1965-12-20
Marriage – Polygamous – Potentially polygamous – Acquisition of domicil of choice in England – Jurisdiction of English courts over a lleged matrimonial offences – Whether marriage converted into monogamous union.
Citation pending | 1965-12-15
The taxpayer a ppealed to the General Commissioners of Income Tax for the Wallington Division of Surrey against a ssessments made on him under Case V of Sch D to the Income Tax Act, 1952, for the three years 1958 – 59,...
Citation pending | 1965-12-15
N Ltd made a nnual payments in the years of a ssessment 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59 and 1959 – 60 to A Ltd under a deed of covenant, dated 12 July 1957, entered into by N Ltd with A Ltd at a time when A Ltd was a wholly owned...
[1966] GLR 244 | 1965-12-07
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. In this a pplication the court is invited to review its order of 7 December 1965, dismissing an appeal on the ground that the a lleged appeal was not properly before it...
Citation pending | 1965-11-23
Estate Agent – Commisson – Agreement to pay commission on introduction of a person “prepared to enter into a contract to purchase” – Introduction of person willing to sign contract if he could sell his own property and...
Citation pending | 1965-11-18
ORMROD J. The matter is not now contested before me, because as a result of evidence which came to light in July, 1965, the petitioner recognises that he cannot now continue to petition for a declaration that he is the...
Citation pending | 1965-11-12
LAWRENCE J read the following judgment in which he stated the nature of the a pplication and continued: The property the subject of the compulsory purchase order is a four-storey block of forty-eight separate tenement...
[1966] GLR 447 | 1965-11-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 issue for the determination of the court involved the law of inheritance in the Kpeve are a of the Volta Region. Her ladyship reviewed the evidence in...
Citation pending | 1965-11-04
deposed that he had more than once made his way on foot a long the entire length of the foreshore in question. With rather more difficulty one could make one ’ s way down or up one or more of the gullies with a...
Citation pending | 1965-10-22
This was an appeal by Jarvis Joseph Astaire, a company director and boxing manager, the plaintiff in this libel action, from the decision of Thompson J dated 29 July 1965, on a summons in chambers a djourned into open...
Citation pending | 1965-09-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 2. H.C 9.9.68 FOLI VII and 7 Others v. THE REPUBLIC (Kingsley - Nyinah J., Ho) Cap. 80 and section was that it was an established and long -standing...
Citation pending | 1965-07-27
This was an appeal by special leave from an order of the Full Court of the High Court of Australia (McTiernan, Windeyer and Owen JJ; Dixon CJ and Kitto J dissenting, dated 25 February 1964, dismissing the a ppellant ’...
Citation pending | 1965-07-26
The landlord carried on the business of a café and restaurant at premises from 5 January 1960. In March, 1960, he a cquired by a ssignment the leasehold interest in the property and on 7 April 1961, he was granted by...
Citation pending | 1965-07-23
Magistrates – Husband and wife – Corroboration – Need for corroboration – When corroboration necessary before finding matrimonial offence proved – When a ppellate court will interfere in the absence of corroboration.
Citation pending | 1965-07-22
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial Home – Discretion of court – Conveyance to spouses jointly – Trust for sale and proceeds of sale etc for grantees as joint tenants – Property purchased out of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1965-07-14
A dangerous nip in a machine in the defendants ’ factory was not fenced; there was this a breach by them of the Factories Act, 1961, s 14(1)a. A finger of one of their employees in the factory, a boy of fifteen, was...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
In Evans v Evans ([1965] 2 AllER 789) which was first reported in the All England Law Reports the day after the hearing and judgment in this case, Cairns J held that complete refusal of sexual intercourse by a wife...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
Magistrates – Husband and wife – Maintenance – Amount – General principle – Whether regard to be had to national a ssistance – National Assistance Act 1948(11 & 12 Geo 6 c 29), s 43 – Matrimonial Proceedings...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
The plaintiffs, BH Ltd were incorporated as a private company in 1953, and their principal business was that of developers of housing estates on land a cquired by other private companies formed by the plaintiff company...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Customs duty – Court order that ship be a ppraised and sold – Claim by Commissioners of Customs and Excise for payment of import duty on ship – Condition on temporary...
Citation pending | 1965-07-02
This was an appeal by the Minister of Housing and Local Government from an order of Mocatta J dated 24 May 1965. The a pplicants, Ashbridge Investments, Ltd by originating motion under RSC, Ord 119, r 71, a pplied for...
Citation pending | 1965-06-24
The a ppellant was the proprietor of a club known as the Postal Bingo Club whose principal a ctivity was the playing of postal bingo each week. There were about 300,000 members of the club. An a pplicant for...
Citation pending | 1965-06-16
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of Buckley J dated 1 February 1965, dismissing the plaintiff ’ s action commenced by writ issued on 16 July 1964, against the first defendant who was at all material...
Citation pending | 1965-06-15
Per Curiam: all legal proceedings a ffecting status, not least those a ffecting legitimacy, should be the subject-matter of open and public trial; the fact that a court, when dealing with infants in a parental or a...
[1966] GLR 442 | 1965-05-07
The plaintiffs' claim is for a declaration of title to land, recovery of possession, and perpetual injunction. The action was taken against seven defendants. In their statement of claim, the plaintiffs a verred that...
[1966] GLR 572 | 1965-04-20
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. gave the reasons for the judgment of the court. [His lordship stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] In a rguing the appeal before us, each a ppellant, who had not the benefit of...
Citation pending | 1965-04-14
Contractors to do work on the exterior of a factory building sub-contracted part of the work, including the re-painting of the roof members and trusses. The re-painting had to be done from scaffolding, and the...
Citation pending | 1965-04-08
Income Tax – Foreign possessions – Income a rising from possessions out of the United Kingdom – Capital or income – Will of testatrix domiciled in the United States – Beneficiary in England entitled to a nnual...
I thought that we had good | 1965-04-02
The plaintiffs, who were a limited company whose principal a ctivity was brewing, owned a fleet of ships for the a ncillary purpose of transporting their wares. The ships were controlled by the plaintiffs ’ traffic...
3052 | 1965-03-25
Coast protection works were needed to protect a strip of land a long the sea shore from erosion. The land a long the sea shore had been developed, houses having been built whose gardens ran down to the shore. The strip...
Citation pending | 1965-03-10
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Social insurance contributions – Ship registered under Italian flag sold in England and proceeds of sale in Admiralty court – Interveners as mortgagees obtained judgment in...
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
Citation pending | 1965-01-22
In 1905, the deceased married his first wife; there was no child of the marriage until, in 1921, twins were born, of whom the defendant was one. The deceased a lways refused to acknowledge the defendant as his child....
Citation pending | 1965-01-20
Highway – Street – Private street works – Resolution of local authority to execute street works – Discharge of onus of proof on local authority that the road is a private street – Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will 4 c 50),...
Citation pending | 1965-01-19
The commissioners held that the test of charge and care was satisfied for the year 1957 – 58, towards the end of which the younger child began to go to school, and that it was not a condition of an a llowance being...
[1964] GLR 715 | 1964-12-28
This is an appeal wherein the a ppellant who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing before the District Court, Accra, on 25 November 1964, and was duly convicted and sentenced to a fine of £G25 or three months'...
[1964] GLR 712 | 1964-12-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 relative in one of his children's room. When he protested to the respondent she thereupon raised a stool above his head and said "I will kill you."...
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
The defendant insurer, Dudley Franklin Hepburn, a Lloyd ’ s underwriter, a ppealed against the judgment of Roskill J dated 29 April 1964, for £136 5s 10d with interest and costs in favour of the plaintiff carriers, A...