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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[1964] GLR 52 | 1964-01-27
In this appeal counsel for the Commissioner of Police has a rgued that there was no right of appeal from the decision of the circuit court judge in this matter to the High Court and in support of his a rgument [p.53]...
[1964] GLR 45 | 1964-01-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 issue: See Halsbury's Laws of England (3rd ed.), Vol. 24, p. 107, para. 198. In Adam v. Ward,1 Lord Dunedin stated the principle thus: ... if there is...
[1964] GLR 40 | 1964-01-27
Blay J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Land Court, Cape Coast, presided over by S. A. Attoh, Esquire, Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, as he then was, whereby...
[1964] GLR 28 | 1964-01-20
The a ppellant in this action has a ppealed to this court against the judgment of Mrs. Jiagge J. dated 13 April 1962 by which the learned judge ordered in favour of the respondent company, the recovery of Albion Tipper...
[1964] GLR 34 | 1964-01-20
Sarkodee -Adoo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The issue for determination in this appeal is whether the transaction between the predecessors of the parties was an absolute sale or a pledge in respect of a...
[1964] GLR 23 | 1964-01-08
Attention Mr. Fruoh Dear Sir, In one of our periodic checks for contamination of product, especially of motor spirit, a sample was removed from vehicle WE 5974 on 13th April, [p.25] 1963, against D/N 23508. A...
[1966] GLR 202 | 1963-12-12
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against a conviction for murder dated 12 December 1963, at the Criminal Session, Tamale. The facts as put up by the prosecution are that the a...
Citation pending | 1963-04-23
Solicitor – Costs – Payment by solicitor personally – Notice of complaint and opportunity to answer it – Order set a side in absence of such notice or opportunity – Supreme Court Costs Rules, 1959, r 8(1)(c), (2).
Citation pending | 1963-03-06
It is sufficient to constitute the offence of wilfully obstructing the free passage a long a highway contrary to the Highways Act, 1959, s 121(1)a that the a ccused, without lawful authority or excuse, intentionally...
Citation pending | 1963-02-21
Although the contract of membership of a trade union may be the only contract between a member and the union, yet if that contract provides for possible employment by the union, such employment will be employment under...
Citation pending | 1963-02-13
Tribunal – Tribunal of inquiry – Evidence – Newspaper reporter – Refusal to disclose source of information of newspaper report – Whether a question which tribunal might legally require him to answer – Relevance –...
I suggested | 1963-01-25
The terms of reference of a tribunal set up by warrant of the Home Secretary and to which the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, a pplied, were to inquire into the circumstances in which offences under the...
Citation pending | 1962-12-20
Infant – Maintenance – Divorce Division of the High Court – Practice – Application – Leave of judge – Claim not included in wife ’ s petition – Whether leave needed – Rule 43(3) ultra vires Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950...
Citation pending | 1962-12-13
Privy Council Ceylon – Witness – Perjury – Summary sentence as for contempt of court – Need to make clear substance of a lleged offence, so that witness shall have opportunity to answer the charge – Those parts of the...
Citation pending | 1962-12-07
The taxpayers a ppealed to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax against an income tax a ssessment for 1956 – 57 under Sch D to the Income Tax Act, 1952, in the sum of £850,000 in respect of profits from their...
Citation pending | 1962-11-16
In this case the husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s desertion. The wife had left the husband in March, 1959, and had caused a summons to be issued in the magistrates ’ court on her complaint...
Citation pending | 1962-11-15
a finance company, a ccepted the transaction and entered into the hire-purchase a greement. The hiring was for twenty-four months. The delivery form included an a cknowledgment by G that he had examined the lorry and...
Citation pending | 1962-07-26
Privy Council – Australia – New South Wales – Licence – Mining licence – “Right” to mine for magnesite – Non-exclusive licence – Whether licence terminable at will – Whether dated notice required.
Citation pending | 1962-07-16
Restrictive Trade Practices – Court – Contempt of court – Proceedings no longer pending – Subsequent victimisation of witness against Federation – Witness removed from office – Whether removal constituted a contempt of...
Citation pending | 1962-07-06
The plaintiff, Raymond Gerald Barry, claimed damages against the defendants for personal injuries caused by their a lleged negligence and breach of statutory duty under the Factories Act, 1937, s 23(1). The facts are...
[1964] GLR 162 | 1962-06-05
This appeal is against a decision of Charles J. dated 5 June 1962 in the Sekondi High Court whereby he gave judgment against the plaintiff -a ppellant (hereinafter called shortly the a ppellant) dismissing his claim...
[1964] GLR 739 | 1962-05-25
This appeal is brought against a judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, reversing a judgment delivered by the Kumasi East Local Court in favour of the a ppellant, the plaintiff in the said local court. The a ppellant is...
Citation pending | 1962-05-24
A judge sitting a lone at the trial of an action for defamation should not take into account, in reduction of damages that he a wards, the fact that he has expressed a favourable opinion of the plaintiff in his...
Citation pending | 1962-05-18
I agree with the reasons in the judgment which my brother Akainyah is about to read for our a llowing this appeal. It is not necessary to recapitulate the facts in this case; they are clearly and exhaustively stated in...
Citation pending | 1962-05-02
Charity – Uncertainty – Hospital – Bequest by will of testator who died in 1938 to “hospital” and/or hospitals and/or charitable institutions – Whether gift a valid charitable gift.
Citation pending | 1962-04-18
The defendants were Robert Durham Clifton, who held shares in the plaintiff society issued under the title of “five per cent fixed term shares”, the Hon Montague Robert Vere Eliot, who held shares in the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1962-04-17
Criminal Law – Appeal – House of Lords – Jurisdiction on a pplication for habeas corpus or discharge under Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, s 10 – Appeal limited to relief under s 10 – Leave to appeal granted by House of...
Citation pending | 1962-04-09
In this case the husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s a dultery with the co-respondent. The wife by her answer denied the a lleged a dultery and cross-prayed for a divorce on the ground of the...
Citation pending | 1962-03-05
This was an appeal against an order of Mr Registrar Kinsley whereby he dismissed a summons by the husband a pplying for leave (i) to a mend his, the husband ’ s, petition by striking out the a llegation of cruelty and...
Citation pending | 1962-02-22
An urban district council, as a local authority for the purposes of the Housing Act, 1957, and enactments preceding it, erected houses and flats in its are a, the rents of which were payable weekly. The council made a...
Citation pending | 1962-02-09
In divorce proceedings in which the husband petitioned on the ground of a dultery and the wife cross-petitioned on the grounds of a dultery and cruelty, each party filed a discretion statement a dmitting a dultery. The...
[1964] GLR 134 | 1961-12-22
Apaloo J. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, delivered on 22 December 1961. In that suit, the court entered judgment for the plaintiff -respondent firm...
Citation pending | 1961-12-21
Restrictive Trade Practices – Court – Contempt of court – Proceedings no longer pending – Witness against federation subsequently removed from office – Whether removal constituted a contempt of court.
Citation pending | 1961-12-19
It is settled law that, in the case of criminal contempt, the period of imprisonment should be for a fixed term as for punishment for a criminal offence; when that has been directed, the court is functus officio, and...
Citation pending | 1961-12-06
This was an appeal by the wife with leave of the judge from an order of Marshall J made on 19 April 1961, dismissing her appeal from an order of the registrar of Plymouth District Registry, made on 17 March 1961,...
Citation pending | 1961-11-22
A complete patent specification described an invention of a crimping tool for crimping electrical connectors on to electrical conductors so as to form a secure electrical connexion. The objects of the invention a...
Citation pending | 1961-11-06
Held – An order for custody would be made in L ’ s favour since the court had jurisdiction to make an order for custody in the suit notwithstanding the wife ’ s death, and it was in the interests of the child that the...
Citation pending | 1961-10-03
Appeal by the Attorney General of Ceylon from a decree of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon (Basnayake CJ and Pulle J), dated 28 October 1958, a llowing an appeal by the respondent, the Scindia Steam Navigation...
2 | 1961-07-28
On appeal from a decision on an a pplication for a carrier ’ s goods vehicle licence the a ppellate tribunal is not confined to the objection preferred by an objector, but may review the exercise of the discretion of...
Citation pending | 1961-07-20
Criminal Law – Appeal – House of Lords – Jurisdiction – Whether appeal limited to point of law certified by court below – Administration of Justice Act, 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz 2 c 65), s 1(2).
Citation pending | 1961-07-16
Privy Council – West Indies – Trinidad – Trade union – Domestic tribunal – Natural justice – Member charged with breach of union ’ s rules none of which gave power of expulsion – Expulsion at a djourned hearing at...
Citation pending | 1961-07-12
This was an appeal by Raymond Clifford James Allen, the plaintiff, from a judgment of His Honour Judge Armstrong at Poole County Court given on 9 November 1960, dismissing the plaintiff ’ s claim against Nellie May...
Citation pending | 1961-06-02
In Baker v Baker a wife a ppealed against an order of Bromely magistrates made on 11 January 1961, dismissing her complaints of persistent cruelty and constructive desertion. A note of the magistrates ’ reasons for...
Citation pending | 1961-05-19
(b) the court should have regard to the actual moment of the testator ’ s death, and should not treat it as having occurred at the last moment of 25 December 1954, so that the rights of action to recover the rents had...
Citation pending | 1961-05-10
By an instrument of charge dated 2 December 1948, L charged certain property with payment to a bank of all moneys from time to time owing by him to the bank as principal or surety. The instrument of charge provided...
Citation pending | 1961-05-09
In 1947 the taxpayer company a cquired all the issued capital of a company, which thus became its subsidiary company, in order to enable the taxpayer company to exercise an option of the subsidiary company to purchase...
CA/A.2623 is enclosed. Working drawings will be forwarded to you in due course. The contract documents will be sent by the clerk of the county council within the next few days. I am inserting in the contract a provisional starting date of Mar. 25 | 1961-05-03
In this action the plaintiffs, A Roberts & Co Ltd and A Roberts & Co (Holdings) Ltd claimed against the defendants, Leicestershire County Council, rectification of a contract under seal dated 12 April 1954, and made...
Citation pending | 1961-05-03
Privy Council – Gambia – Counsel – Professional misconduct – Striking name off roll of court by judge – Whether exercise of judicial power – Supreme Court Ordinance (Laws of the Gambia, 1955, c 5), s 7.
Citation pending | 1961-04-14
The plaintiff a ppealed against an order of His Honour Judge Leslie made in Woolwich County Court on 31 October 1960, dismissing an action for damages for breach of covenant in a sub-lease to the plaintiff of a lock-up...
Citation pending | 1961-03-27
On 5 March 1958, a dditional bail to cover these wreck-raising expenses was provided in the original action on certain undertakings. The hearing of the original action took place before Willmer J on 15 April 16 and 17,...