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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[2022] GHASC 30 | 2022-12-07
This Supreme Court judgment concerns an appeal by a former bank employee who claims his salary was unilaterally reduced for years, alleging violations of his constitutional economic rights and administrative justice....
[2022] GHASC 33 | 2022-12-07
The Supreme Court of Ghana allowed an appeal, overturning a Court of Appeal judgment that had set aside a High Court's summary judgment. This reinstated the High Court's award of over USD $11 million to Springfield...
[2022] GHASC 32 | 2022-12-07
[2022] GHASC 27 | 2022-12-07
This judgment concerns a dispute over the ownership of a house in Kumasi, with the plaintiff claiming it is family property built by the joint efforts of several siblings, while the defendant asserts it belongs solely...
[2022] GHASC 104 | 2022-11-30
This Supreme Court judgment addresses an application to overturn a High Court ruling that allowed a witness to testify using a statement, despite objections that the witness lacked personal knowledge of its contents....
[2022] GHASC 91 | 2022-11-30
The Supreme Court allowed the plaintiffs' appeal, setting aside a Court of Appeal judgment and restoring a High Court decision concerning the ownership of a house. The property dispute originated from the ambiguous...
[2022] GHASC 113 | 2022-11-30
The Supreme Court allowed an appeal by Cyril Mainoo and Cymain Ghana Limited, reversing a Court of Appeal judgment concerning a property dispute. This decision restored the High Court's original judgment regarding the...
[2022] GHASC 98 | 2022-11-30
The Supreme Court is determining the true nature of a case filed by retired police officers to decide whether their claims are barred by the statute of limitations. The officers argue their suit is either to enforce a...
[2022] GHASC 96 | 2022-11-30
Export Finance Company Ltd. initiated a Supreme Court action against the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Attorney General, challenging several provisions of the Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915) and a High...
J1/08/2021 | 2022-11-30
A plaintiff challenged two legal provisions that require taxpayers to pay a percentage of disputed taxes (30% for objections and 25% for appeals) before their case can be heard. He argued these requirements are...
[2022] GHASC 100 | 2022-11-30
The Supreme Court dismissed a citizen's challenge to the Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915), which alleged that the Act granted the Ghana Revenue Authority "far-reaching powers" that usurped judicial authority...
[2022] GHASC 99 | 2022-11-30
This Supreme Court judgment addresses a reference from the Court of Appeal concerning whether Section 42(5) of the Revenue Administration Act, 2016, which requires partial payment of disputed taxes before an objection...
[2022] GHASC 92 | 2022-11-29
The Supreme Court dismissed an objection raised by the Plaintiff against the 1st Defendant's application to review a previous court decision. This ruling allows the 1st Defendant's review application to proceed.
[2022] GHASC 101 | 2022-11-29
This document outlines an appeal to the Supreme Court in a land dispute, where the plaintiff challenges a Court of Appeal decision that ruled in favor of the defendant. The Court of Appeal had set aside the plaintiff's...
[2022] GHASC 90 | 2022-11-29
The Supreme Court heard an appeal from an employee who challenged the termination of his appointment and the computation of his redundancy package by his former employer. The employee sought to reverse the concurrent...
[2022] GHASC 93 | 2022-11-23
This case concerns a dispute over a consultancy contract between Uniex Ghana Limited and Rockshell International Limited, where Uniex claims a percentage of a government payment it helped Rockshell secure. Rockshell...
[2022] GHASC 55 | 2022-07-27
This Supreme Court ruling addresses James Gyakye Quayson's application seeking a review of the court's previous March 2022 decision. In that prior ruling, the Supreme Court had dismissed Quayson's request to quash a...
[2022] GHASC 48 | 2022-07-27
This Supreme Court case involves a plaintiff challenging Section 43 of the Narcotics Control Commission Act, Act 1019. The plaintiff argues that this section is invalid because it was passed improperly and conflicts...
[2022] GHASC 50 | 2022-07-27
This document outlines the background of a land dispute between the plaintiff and the defendants' predecessor, stemming from a 1998 High Court judgment that declared the predecessor owner of plot 35A. Years later, the...
[2022] GHASC 128 | 2022-07-27
[2022] GHASC 47 | 2022-07-27
This document concerns a civil appeal before the Supreme Court regarding a dispute over company shares, employment opportunities, and alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. The plaintiffs are challenging a previous Court...
[2022] GHASC 54 | 2022-07-27
This judgment concerns an appeal stemming from a land dispute where the plaintiff alleges the defendant, a chief, unlawfully destroyed a building on land he acquired. The defendant denies involvement, and the case has...
[2022] GHASC 53 | 2022-07-27
A plaintiff invoked the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, challenging the constitutionality of including the Chief Justice's name on writs of summons and the rule that mandates this practice. The court is tasked with...
[2022] GHASC 56 | 2022-07-26
The Supreme Court dismissed a company's application to quash a High Court ruling regarding a land dispute. The court held that a judge's interpretation of a statute, even if potentially incorrect, is an exercise of...
[2022] GHASC 46 | 2022-07-20
This Supreme Court judgment outlines an appeal concerning the ownership of two properties that lower courts found were gifts to the plaintiffs from their late mother, held in trust for them and not part of her estate....
[2022] GHASC 114 | 2022-07-20
This Supreme Court civil appeal concerns two properties that the Plaintiffs claim were gifts from their late mother, not part of her estate, and another property the 1st Plaintiff claims to have inherited from his...
[2022] GHASC 52 | 2022-07-06
[2022] GHASC 119 | 2022-07-06
[2022] GHASC 64 | 2022-06-29
This Supreme Court case concerns whether an employee's dismissal was wrongful after she was filmed receiving money during work hours, which her employer deemed brought the company into disrepute. The court is also...
[2022] GHASC 129 | 2022-06-29
This case involves an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding a land dispute where both parties claim ownership of the same property, each stating they acquired it from the same source. The court must decide who has the...
[2022] GHASC 63 | 2022-06-29
[2022] GHASC 61 | 2022-06-29
This Supreme Court judgment concerns an appeal by Ghana Water Company Ltd. and China Gerzobua Group against a property owner, who sued them for trespass and nuisance over pylons and high tension cables on his land....
[2022] GHASC 70 | 2022-06-06
This case concerns a dispute over a house believed to be part of a deceased's intestate estate, which his widow and daughter (as administrators) sought to recover from his relatives occupying it. The administrators...
[2022] GHASC 138 | 2022-06-06
[2022] GHASC 89 | 2022-05-25
This Supreme Court judgment clarifies the limits of its original jurisdiction for enforcing constitutional provisions, particularly under Articles 2 and 130(1) of the 1992 Constitution. It emphasizes that the Court can...
[2022] GHASC 131 | 2022-05-25
This Supreme Court judgment clarified the scope of its original power to enforce constitutional provisions in Ghana. The Court affirmed that it exercises this specific jurisdiction only when a constitutional provision...
[2022] GHASC 84 | 2022-05-25
This Supreme Court judgment addresses a dispute where Expom Ghana Limited's fire insurance claim was repudiated by Vanguard Assurance Company Ltd. The insurer alleged crime and fraud, but the plaintiff maintained the...
[2022] GHASC 85 | 2022-05-25
This Supreme Court judgment addressed how a lower court determined an outstanding debt after an earlier Supreme Court decision varied the original award. The Court held that interpreting the impact of its previous...
[2022] GHASC 87 | 2022-05-25
This judgment concerns an appeal before the Supreme Court regarding a protracted land ownership dispute between two families in Kpetoe, Ghana. It details the plaintiffs' claims of ownership, previous court victories,...
[2022] GHASC 83 | 2022-05-25
This Supreme Court judgment concerns the distribution of marital property following a divorce, where both parties appealed the High Court's decisions regarding their shared assets and business interests.
[2022] GHASC 81 | 2022-05-19
The Supreme Court considered an application seeking to disqualify a judge from a panel reviewing a previous decision. The application argued that the judge had previously adjudicated on related issues in a different,...
[2022] GHASC 88 | 2022-05-04
This Supreme Court judgment concerns a long-running chieftaincy dispute over the Akwamu Black Stool. The court is reviewing a decision by the National House of Chiefs that affirmed an earlier ruling regarding the...
[2022] GHASC 13 | 2022-05-04
This document is an appeal in a long-standing chieftaincy dispute concerning the installation of the paramount chief of Akwamu. The petitioners are challenging the process for selecting a chief and the legitimacy of...
[2022] GHASC 86 | 2022-05-04
This Supreme Court judgment concerns an appeal in a divorce case, where the husband challenged previous rulings that dissolved the marriage and made orders for financial settlement and the division of marital property....
[2023] GHASC 74 | 2022-04-27
This criminal appeal concerns George Abormegah, who, along with a friend, was accused of breaking into a company office, stealing computers, and causing the death of a security guard on the premises. They were...
[2022] GHASC 26 | 2022-04-27
This Supreme Court ruling outlines the legal grounds for the court to review its own decisions, specifically requiring exceptional circumstances or new evidence. It then introduces the background of the application,...
[2022] GHASC 25 | 2022-04-27
The Supreme Court heard an appeal concerning a landlord-tenant dispute, where the Court of Appeal largely upheld the trial court's decision regarding claims for unpaid rent, property damage, and electricity bills, but...
[2022] GHASC 18 | 2022-04-13
This document outlines the introduction and background to a Supreme Court ruling on an application for an injunction. The application seeks to prevent a Member of Parliament from performing his duties while the court...
[2023] GHASC 75 | 2022-04-06
Kweku Attah appealed a criminal judgment after being sentenced to death for killing his wife during a violent marital dispute. The court reviewed the events of their troubled relationship that led to the wife's death.
[2023] GHASC 72 | 2022-04-06
The Supreme Court considered an appeal by the Defendants against the Court of Appeal's decision to deny their request to temporarily stop the enforcement of an earlier High Court judgment. A preliminary legal objection...