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11/2001 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA -GHANA TWUMASI | 2002-11-28
TWUMASI, J.A: This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi; delivered on 4 April 2001. I intend to make references to the parties as they were at the trial court. The plaintiff by name Yaa Kwasi sued...
Citation pending | 2002-11-27
In two unrelated cases, fathers sought orders requiring the mothers of their children to give to them a ppropriate immunisation. Part of the immunity which might have been relevant related to an injection which had...
505/4 | 2002-11-25
Citation pending | 2002-11-07
The approach to be a dopted when making an ‘ offer of a mends ’ pursuant to the regime introduced by ss 2 – 4 of the Defamation Act 1996 is one that a ccords with the modern ‘ cards on the table ’ method of litigation...
Citation pending | 2002-11-05
The complainant was a male to female transsexual who a pplied to become a police constable. She was a ssessed and tested in the normal way, and was told that she was successful at each stage. A month later, however,...
Citation pending | 2002-10-31
Practice – Appeal – Power of appeal court to impose conditions on bringing of appeal where there was ‘ compelling reason ’ to do so – Whether a vailability to successful party of normal enforcement provisions in itself...
Citation pending | 2002-10-25
Immigration – Appeal – Deportation – Detention pending deportation – Statutory power to detain non-nationals suspected of terrorism – Whether power constituting lawful derogation from right to liberty – Human Rights...
Citation pending | 2002-10-23
suffered. It followed in the instant case that an action would lie if D had committed a murder in circumstances in which the defendants knew or should have known that he was likely to do so. Thus the a verment that the...
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 THEODORE T. DUGBARTEY ETC | 2002-10-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 On 13.12.95, the Court granted an order for joinder as co -defendant to one Tetteh Quarshie, head of the 2nd defendant/a ppellants grantor family. A...
Citation pending | 2002-07-30
The claimant took out a mortgage on her flat with the building society predecessor of the defendant bank. Another bank obtained judgment against her for a debt of some £5,000 and obtained a charging order on the flat....
64/2001 | 2002-07-25
OWUSU -ANSAH, JA: The parties got married customarily in 1969. The marriage was converted into monogamous marriage under the marriage Ordinance on the 17th September 1982 – at the Church of Pentecost Temple, Labadi,...
80/2001 KOFI SENKYIRE | 2002-07-25
75/2000. | 2002-07-25
ANSAH, JA: This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, given on 8th November 1996. The plaintiff sought a declaration that H/No. Block 6, Dichemso, Kumasi was a cquired from the proceeds from his...
212/2002 | 2002-07-25
218/2002 (Consolidated). THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA – GHANA Civil Motion No. 212/2002 & 218/2002 (Consolidated) 1. ADJETEY AGBOSU } 2. SAMUEL ADJETEY } 3. FORSTER ADJEIA AKPOR } 4. ALFRED ADJEIA BLOR } 1 -5TH...
38/2002 | 2002-07-24
J.S.C. · ADZOE, J.S.C. · AFREH, J.S.C. · 4. J. A. OBBIN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA. CM NO. 38/2002 1. OPANIN KWEKU ANSAH .. PLAINTIFFS/RESP./APPLICANTS 2. OPANIN NYANIHUBE 3. SAFIGEBE KWEKU AFO 5. OPANYIN KOJO ANNAN 6....
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 P. S. INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 2002-07-24
Citation pending | 2002-07-22
Divorce – Property – Adjustment order – Matrimonial home – Confiscation proceedings – Whether court precluded from granting wife property a djustment order in relation to property that was subject to proceedings to...
Citation pending | 2002-07-17
Contempt of court – Appeal – Appeal against committal order or other order made in exercise of jurisdiction to punish for contempt – Routes of appeal from such orders – Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13 – Access...
166/2000 THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA | 2002-07-11
BROBBEY, J.A.: Six people, suing for themselves and 764 others, originally instituted an action in the High Court. All the plaintiffs were pensioners of the Ghana Commercial Bank Limited. Their initial claims were for...
52/2002 HADMORIS CO. LTD. | 2002-07-04
GBADEGBE, JA: The question my lords which confronts us in this appeal is whether the learned trial judge was right in a warding interest on the sum of twenty nine million cedis only and not on the entire amount of...
Citation pending | 2002-07-03
Claim form – Service – Deemed day of service – Rule of procedure establishing deemed day of service of documents – Whether irrebuttability of deemed day of service incompatible with right of access to court – Whether...
14/2001 | 2002-07-03
MRS. JUSTICE J. BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the Judgment of the Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement Commission Appeal Tribunal delivered at Accra on the 21st day of May 1992. The said Judgment stemmed...
Citation pending | 2002-06-27
Contempt of court – Refusal to disclose source of information – Journalist – Disclosure necessary in interests of justice – Circumstances in which court can order journalist to disclose source – Contempt of Court Act...
61/2001 | 2002-06-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 (6) The plaintiff and his elders orally a greed with the defendant that the defendant was to finance the plaintiff Anamankohene to build a (4) four...
83/2000 EMELIA MORKOR COMMODORE QUAYE | 2002-06-27
TWUMASI, J.A: In this appeal I intend to refer to the respondent as the plaintiff and the a ppellant as the defendant as they represented themselves at the trial High Court, Tema. The indorsement on the writ of summons...
145/2002 | 2002-06-27
11/2002 | 2002-06-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 54 I find it difficult to understand why or how a document intended to instruct and set standards for Court Clerks, Ushers, Machine Operators and to a...
156/2000 | 2002-06-20
TWUMASI, J.A.: The a ppellants representing the stool of Gomoa Akyemfo instituted an action before the High Court, Cape Coast against the respondents, the first in his capacity as the chief of a town called Dwema...
173/2001. | 2002-06-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BERNARD KOJO MENSAH | 2002-05-30
WOOD, JA: The plaintiff/Respondents were working as night duty watchmen at Chujah crossing on the defendant/a ppellant company’s gold concession, when one of the company’s truck and a hired mini bus were involved in a...
137/2000 1. ADJETEY AGBOSU | 2002-05-30
8/2001 | 2002-05-29
T. K. ADZOE, J.S.C.: reversed the trial High Court's judgment in favour of the plaintiff/respondent/a ppellant whom we shall hereafter refer to simply as the a ppellant. The defendants/a ppellants/respondents will...
45/2001 | 2002-05-23
ANSAH, JA : This is an appeal against the judgment of an Accra High Court delivered on 15th December 1999. As per their writ of summons, the plaintiffs claimed the following reliefs against the defendants, namely: (a)...
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 AUGUSTINE ACKERSON | 2002-05-23
ANSAH, JA: This is appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, given on 13th January 1992. The plaintiffs has sued the defendant for a. "Declaration that the plaintiffs’ dismissal from the defendant's...
Citation pending | 2002-05-20
Receiver – Appointed by court – Remuneration – Receiver a ppointed to preserve a ssets of defendant who might become subject to confiscation order – Whether receiver entitled to use a ssets of unconvicted or a cquitted...
6/2002 | 2002-05-18
AMPIAH, J.S.C.: On 11th February, 2002, this Court by a majority of 5 to 4 gave judgment for the plaintiff herein in a suit entitled, "Tsatsu Tsikata VRS. Attorney -General" — Writ No. 2/2002. Whereupon the Attorney -...
16/2000. | 2002-05-16
HRC 27/09 | 2002-05-13
On 28 -07 -2009, the plaintiff, Mrs. Betty Kyei Asante, issued a writ in this court against the Kenya Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (the 1st and 2nd Defendants respectively) claiming the following reliefs: 1....
44/2001 | 2002-05-09
TWUMASI, J.A.: This appeal raises the vexed question as to the proper approach which a court is required to adopt in determining an issue in a case where the parties have stated their respective versions of the issue...
123/2000 MADAM ELIZABETH A. MOMO | 2002-05-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 deny all the material a verments on which the claim was founded, but contended that it was rather the a ppellant, who by erecting a one bed roomed house...
49/98. | 2002-05-09
AKOTO -BAMFO: Madam Afua Tema, the plaintiff -respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff is the landlady of the property the subject -matter of the appeal, whereas the defendants/a ppellants now simply...
E32 | 2002-04-25
ARYEETEY, J.A.: A brief background to this appeal is as follows: The late Mr. Harold Smith Boatin, the testator herein was married to Mrs. Rebecca Boatin in 1939 and had children by her, one of whom is the...
37/2001 WASSEM ATTIEH ... PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
3/2000 | 2002-04-24
37/2001. | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
15/2001. | 2002-04-02
3/2001 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA -GHANA CA/NO. 3/2001 G.K. AFORDI | 2002-03-28
ADINYIRA (MRS) J.A.: The plaintiffs/a ppellants (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellants) who were former employees of Ghana Publishing Corporation, began an action in the High Court against the 1st...
196/2000 | 2002-03-28
MRS. AKOTO -BAMFO, J.A.: This is an appeal and a cross appeal filed against the decision of the Circuit Court dated the 8th of November 1999. In order to a ppreciate the issues raised, I find it necessary to give a...
Citation pending | 2002-03-27
Contempt of court – Committal – Jurisdiction – Execution of warrant for possession – Whether warrant for possession a nullity if issued before date on which possession to be given up – Whether penal notice having to be...
2/2002. | 2002-03-13
R.C. OWUSU, JA: This is an appeal against the Judgment of His Lordship Nana Barfour Adjei (Chairman) sitting with Messrs Eric Wood and George Amissah, Miss Cobbah -Yalley and Florence Dadzie as panel members delivered...