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3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
Held – (i) where, as in the present case, there was direct evidence by the execution of a deed of mutual covenant that the vendor and the purchasers from him intended a building scheme, the court was not precluded from...
[1964] GLR 695 | 1964-12-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 defendants are farmers and made cocoa farms on various portions of the land at varying periods. The defendants do not all derive their title from one...
[1964] GLR 681 | 1964-12-18
Mills Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellants were convicted by Apaloo J. (as he then was), sitting with a ssessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court at Kumasi on 12 December 1963, for...
[1964] GLR 671 | 1964-12-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (d) That the plaintiff and those on whose behalf the plaintiff instituted this action are not the lawful children of the late L. T. C. Davies. (e) That...
Citation pending | 1964-12-15
In 1933 the respondent husband, who at all material times was domiciled and resident in Ceylon, married W., the marriage being a Christian marriage. In 1957 W left the respondent. In 1959 the respondent and P were...
[1964] GLR 663 | 1964-12-15
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against the conviction of the a ppellant by the High Court, Ho, for rape. The trial was conducted with a ssessors. Most of the facts in the case are...
Citation pending | 1964-12-11
Pursuant to leave granted by the court, the a pplicants, Nana Kwabena Buadee and Nana Kwamina Faibill III, a sked for an order of prohibition directed to the judicial committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs...
Citation pending | 1964-12-09
This was an action by the plaintiff, Michael Beiscak, against the defendants, the National Coal Board, for damages for personal injuries which he suffered on 7 November 1959, as a result of a fall of a portion of the...
[1964] GLR 661 | 1964-12-09
This is an a pplication by the defendants herein praying this court, (a) to stay these proceedings for a period of one month until [p.662] previous costs a warded against the plaintiff in a similar action in favour of...
Citation pending | 1964-12-04
On 11 December 1964 the respondent was a ppointed a grade 1 class 1 teacher at a government school in British Guiana at a salary of $251 a month. Having failed to comply with requests to send her birth and a cademic...
[1964] GLR 656 | 1964-12-04
OF MILLS – ODOI J.S.C. Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted for the murder of his wife, Ekua Ntabeley, at the village of Aiyim in the Western Region, on 24 September...
[1964] GLR 653 | 1964-12-04
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was found guilty by a jury of the murder of his wife one Amma Dagarti; he was a ccordingly convicted, and the only sentence a llowed by law was passed...
Citation pending | 1964-12-01
Two power-driven vessels, the Auspicity and the Dayspring, were a pproaching each other off the Point of Ayre in the Isle of Man on courses which at first involved no risk of collision. The Dayspring a ltered course to...
[1964] GLR 643 | 1964-11-27
This is an appeal from the decision of the Local Court of Sefwi -Wiawso which was delivered on 20 March 1964. The facts of the case are simple. The plaintiff is the chief of Enwhia, representing the stool of Enwhia and...
[1964] GLR 649 | 1964-11-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 there is no possible ground for supposing that the corporation will authorise their driver who would in turn authorise an unlicensed person to drive the...
Citation pending | 1964-11-26
The commissioners found that the ledger account was drawn up on the basis that the taxpayer company made a nnual payments out of capital receipts, and, in the circumstances of the case and in the absence of evidence to...
[1964] GLR 637 | 1964-11-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 been in his possession. Secondly, he a dmits that he did not deposit these a mounts. And as was said before, his brother was not even called to say if...
[1964] GLR 616 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the conviction of the a ppellant for murder by the High Court, Tamale. The unfortunate incident resulted from an a ltercation between the...
[1964] GLR 612 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant gave evidence for the prosecution on 21 November 1963, in a case entitled State v. Fynn and Another,1 (hereinafter referred to as the substantive...
[1964] GLR 598 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 10 November 1964 we a llowed the appeal in this case, quashed the conviction and the sentence passed upon the a ppellant, and a cquitted and discharged him. The...
[1964] GLR 602 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 13 October 1964, we a llowed the appeal in this case and reserved our reasons for so doing; the following are the reasons for our decision. The a ppellant was...
[1964] GLR 622 | 1964-11-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (c) Whether or not the defendant has any claim or any right at all over properties bought by him, to the plaintiff during their stay together. (d)...
Citation pending | 1964-11-16
Divorce – Estoppel – Paternity of child – Order in divorce suit for custody of child – Child subsequently petitioning for declaration of legitimacy – Husband in divorce suit denying paternity – Order for custody not a...
Citation pending | 1964-11-13
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial home – Discretion of court – Wife sole owner – Improvements by husband – Wife leaving husband and petitioning for divorce on grounds of cruelty – Husband seeking restitution of...
[1964] GLR 593 | 1964-11-10
Lassey J. [stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] With respect to the liability of the respondents to the a ppellant the evidence led at the trial was that after the settlement of the dispute...
[1964] GLR 569 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was tried for, and convicted of the offence of manslaughter by the High Court, Cape Coast, sitting with a jury. When the appeal came up for hearing on...
[1964] GLR 573 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against conviction of the a ppellant for murder upon a verdict of a jury. It raised some very important points of law. These have been forcefully a...
[1964] GLR 551 | 1964-11-06
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was charged with the murder of one Salifu Dagarti and was convicted of this crime on 7 April 1964, at the Criminal Session of the High Court,...
[1964] GLR 580 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was tried by Sowah J. sitting with a ssessors. The indictment charged him with three counts, namely (1) forgery, (2) uttering a forged document and (3)...
[1964] GLR 558 | 1964-11-06
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Djabanor J. sitting with a ssessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court, Kumasi, delivered on 28 June 1963. The a...
[1964] GLR 588 | 1964-11-06
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Siriboe J. (as he then was) sitting in the High Court, Ho, and dismissing an appeal from the convictions by the district...
[1964] GLR 548 | 1964-11-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The respondent disputed the a verment in the petition and herself cross -petitioned for the dissolution of the marriage on the grounds of cruelty and a...
[1964] GLR 546 | 1964-10-29
The a ppellant was charged with stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code, 19601, and was convicted by the District Magistrate, Accra on 21 August 1964 and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard...
[1964] GLR 538 | 1964-10-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 [p.541] The respondent in her cross -petition and in her evidence denied that she was a woman of uncontrollable temper. She maintained that it was...
[1964] GLR 531 | 1964-10-14
The plaintiff by his writ of summons issued on 9 December 1960 claims an order of this court declaring his title to a house at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Are a, an order for recovery of possession of the...
[1964] GLR 527 | 1964-10-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff's claim is for damages for breach of promise of marriage. In her statement of claim she a verred as follows: "(2) On a date in 1951 the...
[1964] GLR 521 | 1964-09-28
On 10 August 1964 I dismissed an a pplication by the judgment -debtor in this case for a review of decision of 13 July 1964 disallowing the judgment -debtor's a pplication for stay of execution. The a pplication for...
[1964] GLR 513 | 1964-08-27
The plaintiffs claim from the defendants recovery of possession of all those ground floor stores situated at the corner of Club Road and Cow Lane, Accra; and also claim double rent under section 18 of the Distress for...
[1964] GLR 510 | 1964-08-14
This is an a pplication by the defendant for further and better particulars under Order 19, rule 7 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954.1 It seems strange that a lthough Order 19, r. 8 provides...
Citation pending | 1964-07-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 hence textbook writers and judges a ware of this impossibility, have consistently refrained from placing any precise meaning on the word in view of the...
Citation pending | 1964-07-22
Section 240 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1954, empowered the corporation of Lower Hutt in New Zealand to construct waterworks for the supply of “pure water” for the inhabitants of the district. Under the Act the...
Citation pending | 1964-07-13
The defendant a rchitects, the firm of Stevens Scanlan & Co pleaded the Limitation Act, 1939, in their defence to an action for negligence brought against them by Oliver Robin Bagot, who had employed them to supervise...
[1964] GLR 452 | 1964-06-30
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was charred before the District Court, Kumasi, jointly with one Kwame Dapaa, with two counts of stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code,...
[1964] GLR 468 | 1964-06-30
This is a motion supported by an a ffidavit brought under Order 70, rr. 1 and 2 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 19541 on behalf of the plaintiff in the above -named suit, a sking this court for an...
[1964] GLR 475 | 1964-06-30
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by the Circuit Court, Kumasi, of the offence of fraud by false pretences, contrary to section 131 of the Criminal Code, 1960.1 He was...
[1966] GLR 151 | 1964-06-30
This is an a pplication under rule 33 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1962,1 for a review of a judgment of this court delivered on 30 June 1964 (unreported). Rule 33 provides as follows: "The Court shall not review any...
[1964] GLR 458 | 1964-06-30
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, delivered by Apaloo J. (as he then was) on 27 May 1963, a llowing the respondent's claim for...
C 44/2 | 1964-06-29
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, Akainyah J. (as he then was) delivered on 9 July 1963. That judgment, a warded in favour of the plaintiff (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) sums...
[1964] GLR 437 | 1964-06-29
On the basis of an oral a greement, the a ppellant performed managerial duties for the respondents as their representative in Kumasi. Upon being summarily dismissed he brought an action in the High Court, Kumasi, in...
[1964] GLR 443 | 1964-06-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi (Djabanor J.)1 delivered on 10 January 1962. That judgment reversed the decision of the...