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3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[1960] GLR 53 | 1960-03-25
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. (After dealing with the a ppeals of the first and second a ppellants he continued). The sixth a ccused (that is the third a ppellant) was sentenced without any clear...
[1960] GLR 45 | 1960-03-25
Granville Sharp, J.A. read the judgment of the court. (After referring the facts he continued). The a ppellant in evidence began by denying that he was ever at Badu on the day of the incident, or that he was in any way...
[1960] GLR 56 | 1960-03-25
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: On the 26th February, 1960, we dismissed this appeal; we now proceed to give reasons for our judgment. [His Lordship referred to the facts, and continued]: There can...
Citation pending | 1960-03-10
Appeal by Bellshill & Mossend Co-operative Society Ltd against an interlocutor of the First Division of the Court of Session (Lord Clyde (Lord President), Lord Carmont and Lord Russell), dated 13 February 1959,...
Citation pending | 1960-03-09
Appeal by special leave by the Attorney General for the State of South Australia from an order of the Full Court of the High Court of Australia (Sir Owen Dixon CJ McTiernan, Fullagar, Kitto and Taylor JJ), dated 20 May...
[1960] GLR 31 | 1960-03-08
(Who delivered the judgment of the court referred to the facts and continued): It will be observed that the only issue joined between the parties was whether the transaction between the predecessors of the parties was...
[1960] GLR 34 | 1960-03-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 had to the a llegations so clearly set out in paragraph 2 of the reply (a mplifying and explaining the writ of summons), and to the a llegations equally...
[1960] GLR 29 | 1960-02-29
This is an action for £500 damages for slander. The slanderous words which the plaintiff a lleges that the defendant used were "slave and beast." I have no hesitation in a ccepting the evidence of the plaintiff's...
[1960] GLR 23 | 1960-02-26
(His lordship referred to the facts and continued). The matter first came before me on January 12, 1960. In my own experience much depends (in matters such as this) on the relationship of the a lleged offending member...
Citation pending | 1960-02-25
Discovery – Production of documents – Privilege – Production contrary to the public interest – Police officer ’ s diaries – Director of Public Prosecution ’ s memoranda – Right of Attorney General to claim privilege in...
Citation pending | 1960-02-22
The first a ssignee of the lease of certain premises a ppealed against a judgment of McNair J given on 10 December 1958, on the trial of preliminary issues in an action for the recovery of rent and for damages for...
Citation pending | 1960-02-18
Appeal by the ratepayers, Arbuckle Smith & Co Ltd against an interlocutor of the Second Division of the Court of Session (Lord Patrick, Lord Mackintosh, Lord Thomson (Lord Justice-Clerk) and Lord Strachan), pronounced...
Citation pending | 1960-02-17
H joined an employees ’ pension and life a ssurance scheme on its inauguration by his employers, a company, in 1939. The pension scheme was a contributory scheme, but the company paid the whole cost of the life a...
[1960] GLR 4 | 1960-01-18
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: The plaintiff in this case in effect claims to be indemnified by the defendant company under the terms of the insurance policy by which the defendant company were the...
[1960] GLR 3 | 1960-01-15
Korsah, C.J., delivered the judgment of the court: With reference to the appeal of Armah against sentence, we are unable to understand why he was given a more severe sentence than Kojo Sisala, who was convicted of both...
[1959] GLR 452 | 1959-12-22
(His lordship referred to the pleadings, and continued: —) None of the plaintiffs can succeed in his action unless he is a ble to satisfy the Court, by preponderance of evidence as in all civil cases, that he is a...
57/1959 | 1959-12-21
Granville Sharp J.A. delivered the judgment of the Court: The plaintiffs' claim is for money lent by plaintiffs to defendant at his request, together with interest thereon and a ttendant expenses specified in the...
Citation pending | 1959-12-18
By cl 1 of the a greement the defendants agree to let and the plaintiff a grees to take four offices and one wareroom on the third floor and one wareroom on the second floor. Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of cl 2 are not...
Citation pending | 1959-12-16
Appeal by Sir Edward Betham Beetham KCM. G, CVO, OBE, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, and Bernard Benjamin Gillis QC from an order of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and...
Citation pending | 1959-12-14
Appeal by special leave by Belfast Corporation from an order of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland (Lord MacDermott CJ and Black LJ), dated 26 March 1959, a llowing an appeal by the respondents, OD Cars Ltd from...
[1959] GLR 436 | 1959-12-11
Korsah C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. (After stating the facts his lordship proceeded: -) It will be observed that apart from the statement of the a ppellant to the effect that deceased followed him to his...
[1959] GLR 442 | 1959-12-11
(His lordship stated the facts and proceeded: —) The a ppellant's a llegations were not supported by the evidence, and there are reasons to suppose that they are figments of imagination and insane delusion. There was...
[1959] GLR 434 | 1959-12-04
of insanity. The case for the prosecution was pointedly put by learned Counsel to the a ppellant in a question as follows: -“You were a nnoyed because your mother did not provide you with the money you a sked for?" In...
3J of 1953 | 1959-12-02
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others." In October 1983 the first and second plaintiffs and others withdrew their membership of the...
Citation pending | 1959-12-01
Appeal by Aberfoyle Plantations Ltd from an order of the Court of Appeal of Malaya (Thomson CJ Sir John Whyatt CJ (Singapore), and Barakbah J), dated 2 June 1958, reversing an order of the High Court of the Federation...
1 has been complied with. | 1959-12-01
a voided; and claiming a lternatively, if the stipulation in para 1 of the special conditions were a covenant and not a condition, a declaration of forfeiture of the lease under s 83b of the Crown Lands Ordinance,...
[1959] GLR 410 | 1959-11-26
(His lordship set forth the history of the proceedings, and continued: —) I shall deal firstly with the issue whether or not there has been a valid a rbitration upon the dispute between the plaintiff and the Caesar...
[1959] GLR 390 | 1959-11-23
Van Lare J. A. delivered the judgment of the Court: This is a judgment of the Court in the preparation of which we all participated. The proceedings in this case commenced with an a pplication filed by the plaintiff in...
It must | 1959-11-20
Though an indefinite bequest of income to an individual shows, as a matter of interpretation and in the absence of words indicating the contrary, an intention that the donee shall be entitled to call for the capital,...
[1959] GLR 387 | 1959-11-20
(His lordship reviewed the history of the matter, and continued: — The Native Court gave judgment on the 11th March, 1958, in the first action (Atakpla v. Kano) in the following terms: — "In this case Atakpla sued Kano...
[1959] GLR 383 | 1959-11-20
This appeal was the third case of its kind to come before this Court within a period of two weeks. In each case the record disclosed a failure on the part of a Commissioner of Assize sitting with the aid of a ssessors...
[1959] GLR 377 | 1959-11-17
joint effort of a man and his wife and/or children, and any property which the man a cquires with such proceeds, are by customary law the individual property of the man. It is not the joint property of the man and the...
[1959] GLR 376 | 1959-11-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 In this matter it a ppears that the learned Commissioner heard the case when no hearing date had been fixed. Upon the parties filing their pleadings,...
[1959] GLR 365 | 1959-11-06
(His lordship stated the facts and the grounds of appeal, and continued: -) In our view, there is evidence on record upon which the Court might reasonably have convicted the a ppellant of the offence for which he was a...
23/1959 | 1959-11-02
On the 27th October, 1959 we a llowed this appeal from a judgment of the Judge of the Land Court, Sekondi, by which he set a side a decision in favour of the defendant in the Shama Native Court “B” (His lordship stated...
[1959] GLR 358 | 1959-10-30
(His lordship referred to the history of the case, examined the evidence of the plaintiff and his witnesses, and continued: -) From the foregoing examination of the evidence of the plaintiff and his two witnesses, it a...
Citation pending | 1959-10-29
This was an originating summons under the Variation of Trusts Act, 1958, heard in open court on 29 October 1959. By the summons the a pplicants were a sking for an extension of powers of investment to give power to...
[1959] GLR 353 | 1959-10-27
This is an appeal by the defendant, with a cross -appeal by the plaintiff, from the judgment of a Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, delivered in Accra on the 12th February, 1959. On the 13th October, 1959, we a...
[1959] GLR 347 | 1959-10-10
(His lordship referred to the pleadings, and continued:) Upon those pleadings the plea that the dispute was res judicata by reason of the judgments pleaded became a preliminary issue to be determined. The plaintiff a...
Citation pending | 1959-10-09
Shipping – Salvage – Payment into court of one sum – Two salvors – Two causes of action consolidated – Whether sum paid need be a pportioned between two salvors – RSC, Ord 22, r 1(2).
Citation pending | 1959-10-06
Per Lord Evershed MR (Sellers and Harman LJJ concurring): in the case of a revenue statute of this kind (the Income Tax Act, 1952) it is the duty of this court, unless there are compelling reasons to the contrary and...
[1959] GLR 343 | 1959-10-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 In our view, the evidence given at the trial of the a ppellant raised the question whether or not, when he committed the act which he a dmits he...
[1959] GLR 332 | 1959-10-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 of murder, should a ctually have taken part in a physical act in connection with the crime. If he has participated in the crime -that is to say, if he...
[1959] GLR 337 | 1959-10-05
Granville Sharp J.A. delivered the judgment of the Court: The only point raised in support of this appeal is that the learned Judge, who sat with a ssessors, misdirected himself as to the law relating to provocation,...
[1959] GLR 323 | 1959-09-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The evidence led by the plaintiff and his witnesses was that about 200 years ago, while the Krobos were still living on the Krobo Hill, his a ncestors...
[1959] GLR 314 | 1959-09-28
(His lordship stated the facts of the case, and proceeded: -) There is no doubt that Mensah misconceived the requirements of the law as to the proper execution of a Will, but it is clear on the evidence that his sole...
[1959] GLR 307 | 1959-09-28
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded: -) The only point for decision in this appeal is whether the verdict should have been one of guilty but insane. The a ppellant was described as really fond of the...
[1959] GLR 309 | 1959-09-28
This a ppellant was convicted by a jury before Simpson J., sitting at Accra on the 23rd April, 1959, for the murder of one Kwabena Ahunu at Okrakwadjo on the 14th December, 1958. [p.311] The a ppellant raised as a...
[1959] GLR 303 | 1959-09-18
Van Lare J A. delivered the judgment of the Court. (His Lordship referred to the facts and proceeded: -) The appeal was a bly a rgued for the a ppellant, mainly on the ground that the conviction cannot be supported...
[1959] GLR 300 | 1959-09-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 upon priority as between the plaintiff's deed of conveyance dated the 26th February, 1953, and that of the defendant dated the 14th April, 1955. Counsel...