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82/99 | 2000-02-10
WOOD J.A.: Unfortunately, I find myself unable to agree with my two learned brothers and I am constrained therefore to give my opinion in this case. This appeal which started off as a simple action between a farmer...
3/94 dated 9th February 2000 | 2000-02-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Aduamoah II and 6 others v. Nana Gyakorang Adu Twum II Suit No. 3/94 dated 9th February 2000 This point was reiterated further by the Supreme Court in...
MISC. 32/2000 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 162 OF THE COMPANIES CODE 1963 | 2000-02-09
The Applicants are in Court to invoke the jurisdiction of the High Court under the Companies Code 1963, Act 179 for the following reliefs: (1) An order for convening an extraordinary general meeting of the Respondent...
3/94 dated 9th February 2000 | 2000-02-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Aduamoah II and 6 others v. Nana Gyakorang Adu Twum II Suit No. 3/94 dated 9th February 2000 This point was reiterated further by the Supreme Court in...
1/99. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA ACCRA WRIT NO. 1/99 BETWEEN | 2000-02-09
By his writ of summons issued out of this Court on 10th May, 1999, the Plaintiff seeks to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court with the following endorsement on the writ. 1. A declaration that the Defendant...
Citation pending | 2000-02-03
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Title to foreign immovables – Bankrupt owning land in Portugal – English court ordering sale of Portuguese land and giving trustee in bankruptcy conduct of sale – Order requiring...
78/92 | 2000-01-27
The facts giving rise to this appeal from a decision of His Honour Julius Ansah as he then was, sitting at the Agona Swedru Circuit Court on the 16th of August 1989 are very simple indeed. The respondent, who is a...
32/99. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA | 2000-01-26
J.S.C. · AKUFFO, J.S.C. [26/01/00] CM NO. 32/99. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA – GHANA CIVIL MOTION NO. 32/99 1. SABAT MOTORS LIMITED 2. NELSON KOFI SENA 3. PATRICK AHADZI …. APPLICANTS 4. EDWARD NANKA -BRUCE 5. HENRY...
2/96. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA GHANA Writ No. 2/96 THE NATIONAL | 2000-01-26
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: I have been privileged to read before hand the learned opinion of my brother Acquah J.S.C. which is about to be read. In his usual characteristic delivery he has critically examined, a bly a...
7 | 2000-01-26
the above ruling the Court Stayed the Execution of a Judgment debt of an Accra High Court, a ffirmed by the Court of Appeal and this Court given on 28th March, 1996 And 12th March, 1997 respectively, and ordered the...
1/99 | 2000-01-12
EDWARD WIREDU, J.S.C.: On July 14th 1999, this Court, by a majority decision, dismissed an a pplication, brought by the a pplicant herein, for the a ttachment of the 16 Respondents herein for contempt of court. By the...
Citation pending | 1999-12-23
23 December 1999 entitled to royalty for public performance of work independent of bandrole system -Whether payment (~f royalty by drinking bar operators for playing music in bars constituting double taxation....
17/99 | 1999-12-23
ESSILFIE -BONDZIE JA.: The facts in this appeal are simple and straight forward. The plaintiff took out writ for declaration of title, recovery of possession of the land in dispute, damages for trespass and perpetual...
34/99 | 1999-12-23
The action which has led to this appeal was commenced on the 8th of January, 1997 at the Circuit Court Odumase Krobo by the plaintiff/respondent before this court (who will be referred to henceforth shortly as the...
7/98. | 1999-12-22
MRS. JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This appeal a rose out of the case of Sylvester Chuka Osunoh and four others including a ppellant who was 2nd Accused in the case. The charge sheet contains three Counts but the Count...
1/99 | 1999-12-22
Citation pending | 1999-12-21
C wished to acquire a property as an investment, and obtained a loan from the claimant bank to fund the purchase. The loan was secured by a legal charge over C ’ s matrimonial home, a property which was owned jointly...
Citation pending | 1999-12-10
Citation pending | 1999-12-07
B, a 15-year-old boy, repeatedly a sked a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex with him. The girl refused, and B was subsequently charged with inciting a child under the age of 14 to commit an act of gross indecency,...
Citation pending | 1999-11-26
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Reinsurance contract – Defendant insurance company domiciled in Greece reinsured by English reinsurers – Reinsurers issuing proceedings in England seeking...
Citation pending | 1999-11-25
Citation pending | 1999-11-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 inadmissible as evidence in support of the charge of intermeddling; and (iii) the proceedings were quasi -criminal in nature, the a pplicant was bound...
15/99. THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA. CIVIL APPEAL NO. 15 OF 1998 JOHN R. KELLS | 1999-11-18
LAMPTEY, J.A.: The suit now on appeal before this court was commenced pursuant to an order made by Mrs. Akoto -Bamfo, J. (as she then was) dated 23rd February, 1993. That order reads as follows: — “Plaintiffs as...
80/98 DASI AKAKPO | 1999-11-11
BROBBEY, J.A.: At the start of this litigation, there was only one plaintiff who shall be referred to hereafter as the respondent or first respondent. She claimed in the Circuit Court that she was a sitting tenant on a...
79/98 | 1999-11-11
Citation pending | 1999-11-10
The claimant trustees were freeholders of an a gricultural holding. The holding, together with other land, was demised to tenants, the beneficiaries of the trust, and was in turn demised to a subtenant. Both the...
Citation pending | 1999-11-09
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Contracts between parties domiciled in convention countries – Claimant reinsurers bringing proceedings in England against insurer domiciled in Sweden –...
Citation pending | 1999-11-02
A child, F, was diagnosed as having Rett Syndrome and began to attend a special school maintained by the defendant local authority. F ’ s mother was unhappy with the school. She a ppealed against the local authority ’...
Citation pending | 1999-10-29
Industrial tribunal – Jurisdiction – Remittal of question by Employment Appeal Tribunal – Employee claiming to have been constructively dismissed and bringing industrial tribunal proceedings – Employer contending that...
Citation pending | 1999-10-29
page 206 delivered himself thus: "I have looked with care through the very numerous authorities that have been cited, but it is not necessary for me to go through them. The result a ppears to be this, that it is an...
40/99. | 1999-10-28
AFREH, J.A.: THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA – GHANA. Civil Appeal No.40/99. GEORGE A. LARBI verses S.S.N.I.T. REASONS We dismissed this appeal from the decision of Her Honour Miss A.M.A. Dzordzie, as she then was sitting at...
Citation pending | 1999-10-27
to honour the a rrangement or understanding. It was also necessary that, in reliance on the a rrangement or understanding, the non-a cquiring party should do, or omit to do, something which conferred an a dvantage on...
It is of interest to look at the previous legislation. The Race Relations Act 1968 | 1999-10-26
The a pplicants, employees of a student union and both of black African origin, were expelled from their university. As a result, the a pplicants were not permitted to enter the university premises, including those of...
3/97. | 1999-10-26
BROBBEY J. A.: This case of the a ppellant who was the plaintiff at the trial court was that he was one of ten Akuapem citizens who a cquired virgin forest in 1954 at a place called Atom on Nkawie and Nyinahin stool...
Citation pending | 1999-10-21
In two cases raising similar issues, the a ppellants were local authority tenants, occupying flats in premises which had been constructed or a dapted for multiple residential occupation. Due to inadequate...
Citation pending | 1999-10-21
A husband and wife purchased a property with the aid of a loan from the a ppellant bank. They granted the bank a legal charge securing all moneys that either or both of them might owe to the bank, and the wife...
Citation pending | 1999-08-20
Citation pending | 1999-07-29
The guild was an unincorporated a ssociation of furniture manufacturing companies. To promote its reputation and the sales of its members, the guild had for many years organised a twice-yearly event, known as the Long...
84/98 | 1999-07-29
89/98 S. K. APPAH -versus - | 1999-07-29
This is an appeal against the ruling delivered by the High Court, Tamale on the 31st March, 1998. The facts show that on the 24th December, 1992 the respondents, Unilever (Ghana) Limited instituted legal proceedings...
Citation pending | 1999-07-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 empower or commission somebody to do certain things in connection with his work, yet that person or body did not thereby assume the position of the a...
Citation pending | 1999-07-22
B worked full-time for the respondent bank from July 1979 until she went on maternity leave. In October 1990 she returned to work on a part-time basis, but ceased employment in 1993 after a pplying, and being a...
70/97. | 1999-07-21
J.S.C. · Ms. Akuffo, J.S.C. · 9. NA J.D. YAMYIA TOOKA II, YUNYO RANA · 12. NABA J.A. ATASIGE II, MIREGU NABA · C. HAYFRON -BENJAMIN, J.S.C.: · “fraudulently got himself nominated, elected and installed Effiduasehene”....
5/97 GEOFFREY | 1999-07-14
Q Did you take a statement from Abaidoo | 1999-07-12
12 July 1999 plaintiff false and without justification -Whether plaintiff libeled by defendant -West African Examination Council Law, 1991 (PNDCL 255), .I' 5. Damages – Libel -Assessment -Factors influencing quantum...
Citation pending | 1999-07-09
Contempt of court – Committal – Costs – Respondent committing unwitting and technical breach of court order – Applicant seeking respondent ’ s committal for contempt of court – Appropriate order as to costs.
Citation pending | 1999-06-25
BCCI (the bank) had been insolvent from at least 1986, but concealed its insolvency by systematic fraud on a massive scale, and pressurised its employees to procure friends, family and a ssociates to place deposits...
Citation pending | 1999-06-24
24 June 1999 commission's concurrence to grant without disclosing defendant's adverse claim Whether plaintiff can defeat defendant's earlier grant from stool by obtaining commission' s concurrence - Administration of...
3/96 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE ACCRA Writ No. 3/96 THE | 1999-06-23
On the 31st July, 1998 this Court dismissed the writ of the Commissioner invoking the a ssistance of this Court to resolve an a pparent conflict in the relative positions of the parties vis -a -vis their respective...
Citation pending | 1999-06-21
21 June 1999 shall not be regarded' as invalid by reason of any defect in the composition of the tribunal or in the a ppointment of any member of the tribunal, that provision was inapplicable where, as in the instant...