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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1998-07-22
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Substantial risk of prejudice to fair trial – Criminal trial in progress – Newspaper a rticle published about offences in question – Criminal proceedings...
16/94. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA Writ No. 16/94 1. FRED EDUKUMA ELLIS HOUSE NO.A23/5 ASHANTI ROAD | 1998-07-22
Atuguba, J.S.C. · Ms. Akuffo, J.S.C. WRIT NO. 16/94. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA Writ No. 16/94 1. FRED EDUKUMA ELLIS HOUSE NO.A23/5 ASHANTI ROAD, CAPE COAST LAWFUL ATTORNEY OF THE ELLIS FAMILY OF CAPE COAST 2....
56/97 dated 15th July | 1998-07-15
court for extension of time to dated the 14th of September, 1999 and all subsequent papers including the statements of defendants' cases AMPIAH, J.S.C.: · ADJABENG, J.S.C.: · ATUGUBA, J.S.C.: · OBENG VS. BOATENG (1966)...
2/98. IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA Criminal Motion No. 2/98 452/91 | 1998-07-14
J.S.C. · Atuguba, J.S.C. · Ms. Akuffo, J.S.C. · MRS J. BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C. · HAYFRON -BENJAMIN, J.S.C.: · ADJABENG, J.S.C.: · MS. AKUFFO, J.S.C.: · ATUGUBA, J.S.C.: · enter tain the same. I would however prefer the...
Citation pending | 1998-06-30
Held – Where a landlord and tenant entered into an a greement to obtain possession against a subtenant, and the terms of the a greement were that the landlord would serve a notice to quit and the tenant would refrain...
Citation pending | 1998-06-24
RSC Ord 13, r 1 provides that, if a writ is indorsed with a claim for a liquidated demand only and the defendant fails to give notice of intention to defend, the plaintiff may, after the prescribed time, enter judgment...
3/97 | 1998-06-24
Citation pending | 1998-06-18
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 | 1998-06-17
In 1956 G began to work for H on the latter ’ s farm, and continued in H ’ s employment until 1995. Over the years H indicated an intention to leave the bulk of his estate to G, and he made that intention known to G...
CA | 1998-06-17
7/93 IN THE SUPREME COURT | 1998-06-17
AMPIAH J.S.C.: I have had the opportunity of reading before hand the opinion of my brother Acquah, J.S.C. and I am in a greement with him that the appeal should be dismissed. I however have this short comment to make...
2/97 dated 6th June | 1998-06-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Michael Yeboah v. J.H. Mensah Writ No. 2/97 dated 6th June, 1998 Supreme Court, unreported, it came to light that The Honourable J.H. Mensah M.P. for...
2/97 | 1998-06-06
C. HAYFRON -BENJAMIN, J.S.C.: MR. JOSEPH HENRY MENSAH was on the 7th December, 1996 elected the Member of Parliament for the SUNYANI EAST Constituency in the nationwide Parliamentary elections. On the 25th February,...
Citation pending | 1998-05-22
Citation pending | 1998-05-20
Arbitration – Stay of court proceedings – Grant of stay – Building contract – Employer claiming damages against contractor and a rchitects for breach of contract and negligence – Building contract providing for...
Citation pending | 1998-05-20
The defendants carried on insurance and reinsurance business in London. They reinsured Lloyd ’ s Syndicate 947 under a continuous contract of reinsurance incepted in 1957. It was a 50/50 proportional reinsurance, with...
Citation pending | 1998-05-20
Counsel – Negligence – Immunity – Pre-trial deliberations – Advice on prospects of appeal – Counsel instructed to a ppear at civil trial on behalf of plaintiff – Judgment entered against plaintiff – Counsel a dvising...
Citation pending | 1998-05-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 IN RE MOSHIEHENE OF KUMASI; ABDULRAHMAN v ABUBAKARI [1999 -2000] IGLR180 -194 Whether a pplication/l for review of order of Supreme Court to be granted...
2 | 1998-05-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 And in the celebrated case of Mosi v. Bagyina [1963] 1 GLR 337, the Supreme Court held (as stated in The decision of the court (reported as Republic v....
Citation pending | 1998-05-08
Arbitration – Award – Appeal – Evidence – Agreement containing a rbitration clause – Applicant contending that it was not a party to a greement – Arbitrator on preliminary hearing finding it was and that he had...
Citation pending | 1998-05-06
Following the death of the general superintendent of the Saviour Church of Ghana two of his children, the caveinors, obtained letters of a dministration in respect of his estate. Subsequently, the two a pplicants...
INVESTIGATIONS | 1998-04-22
INVESTIGATIONS (BNI) [22/04/1998] C.M. NO. 21/96 IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA - GHANA 21/96 . ABEL EDUSEI ... PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT VERSUS: 1. THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL 2. THE DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS (BNI)
Citation pending | 1998-04-02
A a pplied for a sylum in the United Kingdom. Under art 1A(2)a of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the term ‘ refugee ’ a pplied to any person who ‘ owing to well-founded fear ’ of being persecuted...
1/99. | 1998-03-30
8/98 IN THE SUPREME COURT ACCRA -GHANA CIVIL MOTION NO. 8/98 THE REPUBLIC VERSUS | 1998-03-18
Amissah J.A. wrote in the SALLAH case, supra, "to give power to a · oaths of its members render justice to all without fear or favour, good will or illwill. As Amissah J.A. put it in · In the ex parte Pennington (D.C.)...
Citation pending | 1998-03-12
The plaintiff building society brought an action against the defendant a rising out of a transaction in 1990 in which the defendant had a cted as solicitor for the plaintiff and its borrower in connection with the...
Citation pending | 1998-03-03
The a ppellants were the registered proprietors of premises which they ran as a post office, newsagent and off-licence. The business was purchased with the a ssistance of a loan of £160,000 from the respondent bank,...
Citation pending | 1998-02-20
The tenant ran a restaurant from premises held by him under a 20-year lease dated 14 January 1974 to which Pt II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 a pplied. On 4 October 1993 the landlords served a notice under s 25...
2/90. | 1998-02-04
6/96. | 1998-01-28
AKUFFO, J.S.C: I have been privileged to see beforehand the erudite opinion of my brother Mr. Justice Adzoe, J.S.C. and, for the reasons stated therein, I am in full a greement with him that the appeal must succeed and...
6/96. | 1998-01-28
134/95 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL | 1998-01-22
WOOD, J.A.: This is an appeal from the decision of Benin, J. (as he then was) dated 11th July, 1994. The facts which gave rise to the proceedings culminating in the said decision are very simple indeed. One Kojo Oyeman...
L 725/95 entitled Rainsford A. Adotey VRS | 1998-01-15
FRIDAY THE 15TH day OF JULY, 2011 BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP MR. JUSTICE S. H. OCRAN J. version incredible or impossible. Dicta of Ollienu J. (as he then was in Trifo VRS. Dua VIII (1959) GLR 63 at SUITNO.725/95 RAINSFORD A....
Citation pending | 1997-12-19
court, and that plea was unsustainable. The appeal would therefore be a llowed and the injunction originally granted made final (see p 146 e f j to p 147 b g h, p 148 j, p 149 a b f, p 151 c, p 153 j and p 154 b, post).
Citation pending | 1997-12-19
Legal aid – Order for costs – Award of costs against a ssisted person – Enforcement of order – Court of Appeal, following appeal from county court, making order for costs against a ssisted person, not to be enforced...
Citation pending | 1997-12-18
B worked full-time for the respondent bank from July 1979 until February 1990, when she went on maternity leave. She returned to work in October 1990 on a part-time basis, but ceased employment in April 1993 after a...
Citation pending | 1997-12-17
17 December 1997 devising family property under his will to his children -Whether disposition valid. [pg 832] JBA and his brother IRA a cquired a house as joint tenants. On the death of JBA, the house became the sole...
Citation pending | 1997-12-16
Injunction – Interlocutory – Preservation of proceeds of crime – Extent of court ’ s powers to grant an injunction in favour of the Crown – Defendant benefiting from criminal offence but unlikely that he would be...
19/2003 | 1997-12-11
Citation pending | 1997-12-09
BFC made an advance of DM30m for the purpose of enabling Parc to repay part of a loan from another bank (RTB) secured by a first charge on its property development land at Battersea. The transaction did not contemplate...
Citation pending | 1997-12-05
Although the Crown Court, in imposing a custodial sentence on a young offender a ged 15, 16 or 17, should not exceed the maximum of 24 months ’ detention in a young offender institution a vailable under s 1Ba of the...
Citation pending | 1997-12-04
4 December 1997 landlord on ground a greement induced by fraudulent representations by a ppellant tenant - Application by a ppellant for reference to a rbitration under a greement dismissed by trial court - Whether...
32 OF 1997 EDITH AMORKOR SYKES | 1997-12-04
Citation pending | 1997-11-25
Conflict of laws – Foreign proceedings – Restraint of foreign proceedings – Circumstances in which court will restrain prosecution of foreign proceedings – Plaintiffs seeking injunction from English court to restrain...
Citation pending | 1997-11-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 REPUBLIC v HIGH COURT, KUMASI; EX PARTE APPIAH and Others [1997 -98] 1 GLR 503 Judicial review -Certiorari -Application -Decision of High Court -Scope...
Citation pending | 1997-11-12
apply because the evidence had clearly displaced the inference and rebutted the fact it was seeking to establish, it followed that the recorder had correctly a pplied the law to the facts he found and that he came to...
Citation pending | 1997-11-05
The four a pplicants were former servicewomen who had all been discharged from the a rmed forces when they became pregnant. They claimed compensation and in each case the Ministry of Defence a dmitted liability, the...
Citation pending | 1997-10-16
Practice – Dismissal of action for want of prosecution – Delay – Prejudice to defendant – Inquiry as to damages under cross-undertaking – Delay in presenting inquiry – Application to strike out – Principles to be a...
Citation pending | 1997-10-16
16 October 1997 Criminal law and procedure -Alibi -Failure to give statutory notice -Effect of failure by a ccused to give statutory notice -Alibi notice filed after closure of case by prosecution -No sufficient...
1 | 1997-08-07
Statutory instrument – Rules of court – Power of Rule Committees – Power to make rules giving Act retrospective effect – Supreme Court Rule Committee making rules purporting to apply Civil Evidence Act 1995 to...