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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1997-07-31
Citation pending | 1997-07-31
Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Contracts between parties domiciled in convention countries – Plaintiffs claiming jurisdiction of English court over defendant domiciled in Sweden –...
15/96. The a pplication for certiorari consisted of a motion paper | 1997-07-28
(2) of C.I. 16 is an a ffidavit The a ffidavit in support of the a pplication for review filed on 28th July, 1997, is said to have been sworn to by AMPIAH, J.S.C.: · ADJABENG, J.S.C: · I agree with the opinion about to...
Citation pending | 1997-07-25
On 14 December 1993 the plaintiff, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, was found guilty of serious disciplinary charges by the institute ’ s disciplinary committee and as a result...
Citation pending | 1997-07-24
Maintenance of action – Identity of maintainer – Disclosure of identity of maintainer – Plaintiff commencing action against defendants for damages for a ssisting or procuring breaches of contract – Plaintiff refusing...
7 | 1997-07-22
The plaintiff, Bristol and West Building Society (the society) commenced a ctions against the defendants, Fancy & Jackson, Read & Rogers, Steggles & Palmer, Baileys Shaw & Gillett, Clearys, Cooke & Borsay, Moroneys and...
Citation pending | 1997-07-03
3 July 1997 for defamation under customary law .. Evidence --Corroboration -Opponent by -False evidence by opponent Claim by plaintiff that defendant beating pan and calling her a "witch" in [pg 731] neighbourhood...
Citation pending | 1997-06-26
26 June 1997 entitled to any other payment -Labour Decree, 1967 (NLCD 167), para 33(8). "191. No person known to the manager to be infected with tuber culosis shall enter or be a llowed to enter the underground working...
Citation pending | 1997-06-25
25 June 1997 granting bail before trial -Refusal of prosecution to disclose grounds for charge against a pplicants -Refusal disabling court from balancing interests of society and those of a pplicants - Whether court...
Citation pending | 1997-06-19
The claimants (the investors) submitted a claim to the Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd (the ICS) for compensation in respect of negligent a dvice provided by brokers who had sold them home income plans in...
177036 dated 17 -7 -92 for authorising the payment of | 1997-05-28
Citation pending | 1997-05-23
Bank – Deposit-taking business – Control by Bank of England – Bank ’ s supervisory role over commercial banks in United Kingdom – Statutory prohibition on disclosure of information received relating to business or a...
Citation pending | 1997-05-16
16 May 1997 and benefits due each plaintiff. The plaintiffs were former employees of the defendant company. They were found to be surplus to the manpower requirements of the defendant. They were therefore disengaged in...
19592/92 are nearing completion and that the a ssigned trial judge | 1997-05-08
Execution – Equitable execution – Receiver – Jurisdiction – Cross-undertaking in damages for the benefit of third party – Bank obtaining judgment on guarantee and a ppointing receiver in respect of indemnity – Parties...
Citation pending | 1997-05-05
5 May 1997 of trespass on the land in dispute at the High Court. In granting an a pplication for bail by the a ccused persons. the circuit tribunal restrained the complainant and the a ccused persons from entering the...
Citation pending | 1997-04-30
Revenue -Customs and excise -Forfeiture of vehicle -Plaintiffs vehicle used in carrying uncustomed goods from Togo -Notice of claim and of lack of knowledge that goods uncustomed served by plaintiff on defendant...
Citation pending | 1997-04-25
15.1 In recent months this court has held that automatic directions are ousted if an interlocutory judgment is entered on all the issues of liability in the action (see Gomes v Clark (1997) Times, 27 March), or if an...
Citation pending | 1997-04-25
Contempt – Criminal contempt – Interference with due a dministration of justice – Court ordering documents subject to public interest immunity to be disclosed to defendants for purposes of impending criminal appeal...
5/99 | 1997-04-18
ACQUAH, J.S.C.: This is a reference from the Circuit Court, Accra, for the determination of the following issues: 1. Whether or not the deconfiscation order directed by the President of the 4th Republic through the...
Citation pending | 1997-04-16
16 April 1997 lawful -Industrial Relations Act, 1965 (Act 299), s 23. Damages -Quantum -Wrongful dismissal - Plaintiffs wrongfully dismissed by defendant company after interdiction -Plaintiffs' entitlements .. The four...
Citation pending | 1997-04-10
10 April 1997 Customary law -Stool land -Ash a nti stool land -Alienation -Right of a lienation vested in owner of possessory title -1916 judgment declaring Ahwiaa stool holders of possessory title in Ahwiaa land of...
2 | 1997-03-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Cap /76 (1951 Rev), 01' 2(b) -Finan cial institutions (Non -Banking) Law, 1993 (PNDCL 328) -High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (LN 140A), Order...
Citation pending | 1997-03-25
The plaintiff was a ged ten months when a care order was made in favour of the defendant local authority and he remained in care until he was a lmost 18. Whilst in care, he was moved on nine different occasions between...
Citation pending | 1997-03-19
The a ppellant, who was the principal beneficiary of a settlement made in 1984 of which the respondents were the trustees, brought an action for breach of trust against the trustees. She a lleged in her statement of...
Citation pending | 1997-03-18
Mortgage – Sale – Duty of mortgagee – Standard of duty in exercising power of sale – Security including business – Duty to ensure that value of combined a sset maximised – Duty to take into account effect of sale on...
Citation pending | 1997-03-18
criminal libel contrary to section 112 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). A preliminary legal objection raised by the a ccused persons to the jurisdiction of the court and the propriety of the charge was dismissed by...
Citation pending | 1997-03-13
13 March 1997 Customary law -Stool land -Alienation -Only chief and principal elders can validly a lienate stool land -Plailltiffs not the only stool elders of Appolonia -Plaintiffs voluntarily a bsenting themselves...
Citation pending | 1997-03-10
Injunction – Post-judgment – Injunction restraining defendant from leaving jurisdiction – Consent order disposing of action brought by husband and providing for husband to pay wife ’ s costs – Husband failing to pay...
Citation pending | 1997-03-07
7 March 1997 The petitioner was the wife of the respondent. The parties were Ghanaians by birth but had lived in America resident visa. Following differences between them, the petitioner filed for divorce. The...
193/97 | 1997-02-27
Citation pending | 1997-02-13
The a pplicants, A, N, L and R, 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...
32.2002 | 1997-02-10
The parties herein were husband and wife. With their consent, the High Court, Accra, dissolved their marriage on 10th February 1997 and granted custody of the child of the marriage to the petitioner with reasonable...
Citation pending | 1997-01-24
Held – On an a pplication for a hackney carriage licence, the local authority or licensing justices (the judicial authority), when deciding whether, exceptionally, to admit in evidence spent convictions under s 7(3)b...
Citation pending | 1997-01-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 would be quashed by certiorari. Republic v Aso kore Traditional Council; Ex parte Tiwaa [1976] 2 GLR 231, fact that respondents pronounced the a...
Citation pending | 1997-01-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 MENSAH v ATTORNEY -GENERAL [1997 -98] 1 GLR 227 -281 Provision on termination of a ppointment Provision a pplicable within tenure of office of...
Citation pending | 1996-12-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Commissioner of Inland Revenue. In re Nathan [1884] 12 QBD 461; R v Charity Commissioner for a rticle 23 of the Constitution, 1992 provided that in...
Citation pending | 1996-12-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Commissioner of Inland Revenue. In re Nathan [1884] 12 QBD 461; R v Charity Commissioner for a rticle 23 of the Constitution, 1992 provided that in...
Citation pending | 1996-12-18
The four complainants, who were former employees of B plc, a pplied to transfer the value of their a ccrued pension benefits pursuant to their right under Pt II of Sch 1A to the Social Security Pensions Act 1975. Their...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
The a ppellants (the three plaintiffs and the pursuer) were passengers on a scheduled international flight operated by the respondent airline (BA) which left London on 1 August 1990 for Malaysia via Kuwait. On 2 August...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
The a ppellant, who is a natural child of the deceased, Dr Gustav Koranteng -Addow, a pplied for letters of a dministration to a dminister his estate. The respondent, a paternal brother of the deceased, caveated. After...
Citation pending | 1996-12-12
Benin JA delivered the first judgment at the invitation of Lamptey JA. Madam Agyina Osumanu, the plaintiff -respondent (herein -after called the plaintiff) sued her husband, Atta Osumanu, the first defendant, and Jacob...
77/96. | 1996-12-12
3/99 17881 | 1996-11-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 He defence was that he was returning from town to the barracks that night when he realized that another car was following him. When he was checked at...
Citation pending | 1996-11-15
Solicitor – Negligence – Immunity – Extent of immunity – Plaintiff ’ s conviction quashed on appeal – Plaintiff suing solicitors for negligence in conduct of his defence in criminal proceedings – Whether solicitors...
Citation pending | 1996-11-14
A charitable company whose principal objects were the promotion of research into the cause, cure and prevention of multiple sclerosis and the a ssistance of those suffering from that disease was compulsorily wound up...
Citation pending | 1996-11-07
By order made by Master Barratt on 24 July 1996 a preliminary issue was ordered to be tried in an action brought by the plaintiff, Amsprop Trading Ltd (head landlord by a ssignment), for a declaration to the effect...
Citation pending | 1996-11-07
In July 1990, the plaintiff bank obtained a legal charge over the wife ’ s family home in order to secure the borrowing on the joint bank account which she held with her husband. Prior to obtaining the charge, the bank...
Citation pending | 1996-11-06
Held – Where a mortgagor granted a contractual tenancy of the mortgaged property to a third party for a term not exceeding 21 years, that tenancy took priority over the mortgagee ’ s unregistered legal charge, and was...
Citation pending | 1996-11-05
His Highness Sheikh Zayed Sultan al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, a pplied to strike out a third party notice issued against him in his public capacity as ruler of Abu Dhabi...
[1996] ACHPR 5 | 1996-10-31
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights declared a communication inadmissible because it lost contact with the complainant, Monja Joana, after he died. Despite attempts to reach his legal successor, the...