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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[2025] GHASC 11 | 2025-02-26
This case concerns a company's challenge to the Auditor-General's disallowance of payments for services rendered. The core dispute is whether the company should have used the specific constitutional appeal process or...
[2025] GHASC 8 | 2025-02-26
This is a Supreme Court appeal concerning an interlocutory injunction that was granted by the trial High Court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal. The injunction restrains the defendant from interfering with land...
[2025] GHASC 1 | 2025-01-29
This Supreme Court judgment concerns a prolonged land dispute over the ownership of a parcel of land. One party holds a lease granted by a customary authority, while other parties claim equitable rights over the same...
[2025] GHASC 5 | 2025-01-22
This Supreme Court judgment addresses a civil appeal brought by a bank against its former Managing Director. The bank alleges that the director abused his office and breached his duties, seeking the recovery of funds...
[2025] GHASC 6 | 2025-01-22
This Supreme Court ruling concerns Daniel Ofori's application to overturn a High Court order that stopped him from enforcing a Supreme Court judgment against Ecobank Ghana Limited. Ofori contends the High Court lacked...
[2025] GHASC 4 | 2025-01-22
This Supreme Court ruling considered an application to quash a High Court decision that granted an injunction restraining the execution of a previous Supreme Court judgment. The applicant argued the High Court had no...
[2024] GHASC 67 | 2024-12-27
The Supreme Court considered an application by the National Democratic Congress and its parliamentary candidates to nullify and prevent orders made by the High Court. These High Court orders related to applications...
[2024] GHASC 63 | 2024-12-05
The Supreme Court is considering an urgent application to temporarily prevent the Electoral Commission from including a specific parliamentary candidate in the upcoming December 7th elections for the Amenfi Central...
[2024] GHASC 59 | 2024-12-04
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal in a divorce case, where a husband challenges lower court decisions dissolving his customary marriage and awarding the matrimonial home and maintenance to his wife. The...
[2024] GHASC 61 | 2024-12-04
This document introduces an appeal before the Supreme Court by a retired military captain seeking to overturn a Court of Appeal decision. She is appealing issues related to compensation for a service-related...
[2024] GHASC 58 | 2024-12-04
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal concerning an interlocutory injunction, which was initially granted by a High Court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal. The injunction prevents the defendants from...
J1/01/2025 | 2024-10-30
The Speaker of Parliament asked the Supreme Court to set aside ongoing court proceedings and vacate a previous order that had temporarily stopped the Speaker's decision to declare four parliamentary seats vacant. The...
[2024] GHASC 46 | 2024-10-30
This Supreme Court judgment addresses a decades-long chieftaincy dispute over which royal family has the legitimate right to provide the Mantse (chief) for the Great Ningo Traditional Area. The court is tasked with...
[2024] GHASC 52 | 2024-10-30
The Supreme Court dismissed an application by Sunlight Engineering Limited to review a prior judgment that held it liable for damages. The company had sought the review, arguing the previous decision failed to address...
[2024] GHASC 45 | 2024-10-30
This Supreme Court appeal examines whether the Court of Appeal correctly overturned a lower court's judgment that had granted the Plaintiffs title and possession of ancestral lands. The Plaintiffs allege the Defendants...
[2024] GHASC 48 | 2024-10-29
This ruling clarifies that the Supreme Court's power to review its own previous decisions is a special jurisdiction. This power is exercised only in exceptional circumstances, such as a fundamental error leading to a...
[2024] GHASC 47 | 2024-10-23
This Supreme Court judgment concerns an appeal over a land dispute where the High Court initially ruled in favor of the defendants, granting them title and possession of the land. The Court of Appeal later reversed...
[2024] GHASC 44 | 2024-10-23
[2024] GHASC 33 | 2024-07-24
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal concerning whether a trial court can consider a party's legal standing to sue based on evidence presented, even if that issue was not initially raised in the pleadings....
[2024] GHASC 21 | 2024-07-24
This judgment concerns a challenge brought before the Supreme Court of Ghana, asking it to determine if Section 104(1)(b) of the Criminal and Other Offences Act, which criminalizes consensual "unnatural carnal...
[2024] GHASC 41 | 2024-06-26
Hoda Holdings Limited, a major shareholder of Unicredit Ghana Limited, sought judicial review to overturn the Bank of Ghana's decision to declare Unicredit insolvent and revoke its operating license. The company argued...
[2024] GHASC 37 | 2024-06-19
This Supreme Court judgment considers whether a criminal trial must restart entirely when a new judge is assigned to the case after the previous judge's retirement. The court is reviewing a lower court's decision that...
[2024] GHASC 30 | 2024-06-19
Mark Darlington Osae challenged a guideline from the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) that prohibits well-known personalities and professionals from advertising alcoholic beverages. He argued that this guideline is...
[2024] GHASC 24 | 2024-06-19
The Supreme Court heard an appeal concerning a land dispute where the Plaintiff sought title to a piece of land. Prior judgments by the High Court and Court of Appeal had ruled against the Plaintiff, granting the...
[2024] GHASC 29 | 2024-06-19
This document outlines the plaintiff's requests to the Supreme Court of Ghana for several declarations. The plaintiff argues that certain commercial entities where the government is the sole beneficiary should be...
[2024] GHASC 31 | 2024-06-04
The Supreme Court heard an appeal to determine if the Court of Appeal's authority to grant applications to pause court proceedings during an appeal was removed by the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Rules, 2020. This...
[2024] GHASC 18 | 2024-05-29
This Supreme Court judgment details an appeal regarding an estate agent's claim for a 5% commission against a company that purchased land. Previous courts had awarded the agent the commission, though the company denies...
[2024] GHASC 27 | 2024-05-22
[2024] GHASC 23 | 2024-05-22
A citizen of Ghana has challenged a section of the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act 2016, arguing it unconstitutionally allows certain state entities to secure loans up to $30 million without parliamentary...
[2024] GHASC 42 | 2024-05-22
The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal against a Court of Appeal judgment that affirmed a High Court decision in a land dispute. The High Court had granted the plaintiff title to land, recovery of possession, a...
J4/75/2023 | 2024-05-22
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal concerning a land dispute. The appeal challenges a lower court's decision that had upheld a High Court ruling, which granted the plaintiff ownership of the disputed land,...
[2024] GHASC 25 | 2024-04-24
A legal practitioner challenged sections of Ghana's Citizenship Act, 2000, arguing they were enacted in a manner inconsistent with the 1992 Constitution. The plaintiff sought a declaration that these sections are...
[2024] GHASC 28 | 2024-04-24
This Supreme Court judgment examines the constitutional procedure for determining emoluments (salaries, allowances, and benefits) for various public office holders under Article 71 of the 1992 Constitution. The case...
[2024] GHASC 36 | 2024-04-24
A plaintiff, Solomon Faakye, challenged the constitutionality of specific provisions within the University of Ghana Act, 2010, and the entire Statutes of the University of Ghana. He argued that these governance-related...
[2024] GHASC 22 | 2024-04-24
[2024] GHASC 17 | 2024-04-24
This judgment concerns an appeal regarding the ownership of a property, where the plaintiffs claim it was settled on their late mother by their late father during their divorce proceedings. The defendants deny this...
[2024] GHASC 19 | 2024-04-24
This judgment concerns an action brought by three plaintiffs challenging the constitutional authority of a Presidential Committee to recommend emoluments for the spouses of the President and Vice-President. They argue...
[2024] GHASC 2 | 2024-03-05
The Applicant asked the Supreme Court to overturn a High Court order that prohibited a planned public demonstration. He argued the High Court's decision was invalid because he was not given proper notice of the hearing...
[2024] GHASC 5 | 2024-02-28
This judgment concerns an application to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn a High Court decision that dismissed a libel claim. The applicant argues that the High Court lacked jurisdiction and that its judge showed...
[2024] GHASC 9 | 2024-02-28
This Supreme Court appeal addresses whether a High Court had jurisdiction to hear a case concerning the removal of a Chief Fisherman. The central question is if such a matter constitutes a "cause or matter affecting...
[2024] GHASC 4 | 2024-02-28
This case concerns a dispute over the ownership of a house, a farmland, and a cocoa farm. The plaintiffs claim these properties belong to the Oyoko Family of Wiamoase, while the defendants assert they are the personal...
[2024] GHASC 10 | 2024-02-28
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal regarding the attachment of a property to satisfy a debt. Electroland Ghana Limited, seeking to recover a debt, challenged lower court rulings that found the property was...
[2024] GHASC 8 | 2024-02-28
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an appeal concerning the enforcement of an arbitral award made by the Federation of Cocoa Commerce. While the High Court initially dismissed the application to enforce, the Court...
[2024] GHASC 6 | 2024-02-28
A civil society organization sued the Attorney-General, arguing that the conditions of children living on the streets of Ghana violate several constitutional provisions related to child protection and welfare. The...
NO. J4/34/2023 | 2024-02-28
This judgment concerns a dispute among siblings over a property their father purportedly gifted twice: first to all his children and their mother, and later exclusively to one son. The other siblings challenged this...
[2024] GHASC 7 | 2024-02-21
This Supreme Court civil appeal concerns the Plaintiffs' challenge to a Court of Appeal decision that referred their dispute with the Defendants to arbitration and set aside a High Court ruling. The Plaintiffs argue...
[2024] GHASC 13 | 2024-02-07
This judgment's background section details an appeal challenging a criminal prosecution for child pornography under a law that was later repealed. The previous court dismissed the appeal, ruling that an interpretation...
[2024] GHASC 68 | 2024-01-24
This judgment concerns an employee's appeal to change her declared retirement age, claiming her employer was unlawfully forcing her into early retirement. The Supreme Court is re-evaluating the evidence and applicable...
[2023] GHASC 100 | 2024-01-24
This Supreme Court case involves an employee's appeal regarding her attempt to modify her declared retirement age and her claim of unlawful premature retirement by her employer. The Court is reviewing the evidence and...
[2023] GHASC 99 | 2024-01-24
The Supreme Court dismissed the 2nd Defendant's appeal, upholding previous judgments from the High Court and Court of Appeal that favored the Plaintiffs in a land dispute involving trespass and an injunction. This...