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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1983-03-01
TWUMASI J. The a ppellant and his wife and one other now at large, were jointly charged with conspiracy to defraud and defrauding by false pretences contrary to sections 20 and 131 respectively, of the Criminal Code,...
202 | 1983-02-28
whenever he travelled from Tema to Adiembra on a visit he stayed with the defendant in the said house. When the plaintiff was pensioned he gave notice to the defendant to quit the premises but the latter gave various...
ER 3969 belonging to the second defendant to be impounded in execution of the judgment debt. It was at this point that the | 1983-02-25
High Court in Volta Region for damages for negligence — Whether action properly commenced — High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 1954 (LN 140A), Order, 5, r. 1 (6) — High Court (Civil Procedure) (Amendment) Rules, 1977...
R.3 | 1983-02-23
Mensa Boison J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal by the defendant is against the judgment of the Circuit Court, Kumasi (G. P. K Twumasi, Esq., presiding) given on 17 November 1980. By that judgment...
2 | 1983-02-22
By two separate a ctions the next friend herein, first in his capacity as principal tenant and subsequently in his capacity as caretaker to Kingsley Anyimadu Acheampong, sued the defendants to set a side the sale of...
Citation pending | 1983-02-21
Time – Persons entitled to bring action – Fatal a ccident – Action – Dependant of deceased entitled to sue if no action commenced by executor within six months of death – Executors a ppointed by will – Action commenced...
Citation pending | 1983-02-18
Held – (1) It was well established that in a claim under the 1934 Act the deceased ’ s estate was entitled to damages on account of his a nticipated earnings in the lost years, but that loss was not to be a warded in...
2 | 1983-02-07
This is an a pplication for an order prohibiting the respondents from hearing and determining the suit entitled: (1) Asamoah Ebbah (2) John Mokye v. Aduku Mframra and Others Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the a pplicants' a...
Citation pending | 1983-01-31
The plaintiff claims against the defendants jointly and severally ¢10,000 damages for unlawful a rrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The facts of the case were that on 21 November 1979, the plaintiff...
2 | 1983-01-26
The appeal is from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 7 August 1981. It was the result of the outcome of proceedings brought under section 20(1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1971 (Act 367), by the...
AB 18 | 1983-01-24
Abban J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The appeal is from the judgment of the High Court, Sunyani, delivered on 24 February 1981. The judgment a llowed an appeal from the judgment of the District Court, Dormaa...
Citation pending | 1982-12-20
Trust – Constructive trust – Participation in dishonest design – Knowingly a ssisting in fraudulent design on part of trustee – Knowledge – Stranger – Bank – Knowledge required of stranger to trust to make him a...
Citation pending | 1982-12-16
In 1976 the respondent entered Hong Kong illegally. He remained there without being detected and became part owner of a factory which employed several workers. On 28 October 1980 a change in immigration policy was a...
Citation pending | 1982-12-15
The dispute in this case is about title to a piece of land described by the name Adjancote. This land was a cquired some time ago by the Government of Ghana for the purpose of building a television station for the...
Citation pending | 1982-12-14
Jiagge J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is from the ruling of the circuit court dismissing an a pplication to set a side its judgment for a liquidated demand in default of a ppearance. The...
Citation pending | 1982-12-09
In pursuance of the Provisional National Defence Council (Establishment) Proclamation, 1981, a law was promulgated entitled Forfeiture of Assets and Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Subin Timbers...
1153/1952. It was tendered at the t rial as exhibit A. It should be observed that sometime after the sale Dwenin died. That is | 1982-11-25
The land in dispute is situated at Tantri Road, Cape Coast. It formed part of a larger are a bought by one Kwamina Prah (deceased). Kwamina Prah built a house on a portion of the said land. It is the undeveloped...
Citation pending | 1982-11-24
By a writ issued on 21 February 1980 the plaintiffs, American Express Co, American Express International Corp and Standard Bank of Swaziland, claimed against the defendants, the British Airways Board, inter a lia,...
Citation pending | 1982-11-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 dismissed all of them. He also suspended two others on the same day for flouting his orders. Later, Mr. Benneh went to town and recruited labourers to...
Citation pending | 1982-11-15
Contempt of court – Court – Commission of inquiry – Inquiry into a llegations of fraud and corruption by a ppellant – Supreme Court judge a ppointed as sole commissioner to conduct inquiry – Abusive and scurrilous...
350403/166724 of 27 May 1981 | 1982-11-12
(a) Unbleached Kraft Liner (b) First Class Semi -Chemical Real Width -64" Fluting Specifications — Diameter -50" same as in (a) CORE -4" Substance -200 & 150 gm² . . . delivery dates will be highly a ppreciated. Yours...
Citation pending | 1982-10-28
Held – On the true construction of s 38(1) of the 1954 Act, an a greement purported to preclude a tenant from making an a pplication or request for a new tenancy if the effect of the a greement was in fact to preclude...
Citation pending | 1982-10-22
The plaintiff on 14 June 1982 issued his writ claiming to be a lawful son and the person entitled to the estate of James Tetteh Odonkor (deceased) and as such to have a grant of a dministration of the estate of the...
NK. 72 | 1982-09-16
In this case the plaintiff who is an executor of the will of the late J. B. O. Sackitey, claims against the defendants herein for an order for recovery of possession of: "(a) two -storey building No. NK. 72, Koforidua...
Citation pending | 1982-08-24
Delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the decision of the chieftaincy tribunal of the National House of Chiefs. The petitioners in this matter instituted chieftaincy proceedings against the...
Citation pending | 1982-07-22
In 1971 the plaintiffs, a land development company, employed a firm of a rchitects to design, and a firm of builders to build, a block of flats. The a rchitects ’ specifications required the foundations to be built to...
Citation pending | 1982-07-21
The plaintiffs, Banque de l ’ Indochine et de Suez SA, brought an action against the defendants, J H Rayner (Mincing Lane) Ltd, claiming, inter a lia, the return of $US1,010,000 which they had paid to the defendants...
Citation pending | 1982-07-08
The a pplicant obtained an entry certificate in Sri Lanka to enter the United Kingdom as a student but on her a rrival in England the certificate was found to be invalid. The a pplicant therefore a pplied to the...
Citation pending | 1982-06-28
Husband and wife – Summary proceedings – Financial provision – Magistrates ’ court – Application for financial provision order – Grounds of a pplication – Respondent ’ s behaviour such that a pplicant cannot reasonably...
Citation pending | 1982-06-28
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 The plaintiff is a timber merchant trading under the name and style of Temaco Supply Co., Ltd., and under a trade mark TSC. The defendants are also a...
Citation pending | 1982-06-24
(a) it had not been obtained by economic duress on the part of the defendants, ie by commercial pressure which had coerced the plaintiffs ’ will and vitiated their consent to the transaction, since the plaintiffs had...
1 | 1982-06-23
The appeal is from the judgment of the Circuit Court, Koforidua. In the said judgment dated 24 November 1980, the learned circuit judge dismissed the claim of the a ppellants (hereinafter referred to as the...
Citation pending | 1982-06-11
"the plaintiff sues the defendant to show cause why the defendant should instruct Kweku Amoah who is a tenant on the plaintiff's farm land to pay ¢40 to the defendant being a nnual fee on the plaintiff's farm and being...
Citation pending | 1982-06-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 of the town committee, and therefore he had every authority to grant a licence to the defendant to tap and uproot palm trees, perhaps in the better...
Citation pending | 1982-05-21
John Bennett, the director of trading standards for West Yorkshire, a ppealed by way of case stated by F D L Loy Esq, stipendiary magistrate a cting in and for the petty sessional division of Leeds in the county of...
GL 3067 | 1982-05-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 [p.1146] It also claims recovery of possession of the said farm tractors and equipment; ¢330,000 damages for loss of use; ¢70,000 as general damages and...
17/62 empowers the Commission to check and copy all correspondence and other business papers of a firm or a ssociation of firms | 1982-05-18
was privileged. The a pplicant a pplied to the Court of Justice of the European Communities for (i) a review of art 1(b) of the Commission ’ s decision and (ii) a declaration that it was void or, a lternatively, a...
Citation pending | 1982-05-18
Wiredu J.A. delivered the ruling of the court. On 5 November 1975, the plaintiff -respondents to this appeal (hereafter referred to simply as the plaintiffs) took out a writ of summons in the High Court, Accra [p.207]...
1883/1975. The defendant | 1982-05-17
This is an appeal from the judgment of his Honour the Circuit Judge, Mr. Dove, as he then was, when he granted to the [p.211] plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) a declaration of title to a...
SNT. 75 after | 1982-05-11
On 22 September 1962, a house at Sunyani, numbered SNT. 75, previously owned by the second a ppellant was offered for salt at a public auction to satisfy the judgment debt and costs incurred by her in a land suit. The...
1197/1968 in the Lands Registry | 1982-05-11
This dispute relates to the common boundary of two Teshie families. It is a contest essentially to determine the true boundary between the quarter lands of the Agbawe and Kle Musum families of Teshie. The suit...
D.16 | 1982-05-11
The parties to this appeal are members of the Adaati family of Takyiman in the Brong -Ahafo Region. The family owns a stool the occupant of which is the linguist to the Takyimanhene. The respondent to this appeal is...
Citation pending | 1982-05-11
This appeal is from the decision of the Circuit Court, Wa, dated 2 April 1980. The decision upheld a claim by the plaintiff -respondent (hereafter referred to simply as the plaintiff) for the custody of a child he...
20 of 1958 | 1982-05-11
This is an appeal from the ruling of the High Court, Sunyani. The main ground a rgued by the a ppellant was that "on the a ffidavits filed by the parties it is clear that Tanoso is not within the Techiman Traditional...
Citation pending | 1982-04-24
Mensa Boison J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant, Simon Adjei Berko, a ppeals against his conviction on 3 April 1981 for the manslaughter of Kwame Avodzivi before Amua -Sekyi J: at the High Court,...
27 dated Friday 20 June 1975 for the purpose of quashing the same. | 1982-04-23
He By his a mended a pplication filed on 12 August 1977, Nana Anka Akyeamfour II (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellant), sought "an order of certiorari to remove the name of the third respondent), Nana Sefa...
Not necessarily. The NAC is an institution provided under the rules and the rules express its function. | 1982-04-05
The employer, a large company, was divided into two sub-groups, each of which was divided into divisions which operated at various sites in the United Kingdom. An independent trade union had members in both sub-groups...
130/3 | 1982-03-19
By an originating summons the plaintiff claims from the defendant herein, the following reliefs: "1. Redemption of house No. 130/3, Kwesimintsim Zongo, near Takoradi. 2. Re -conveyance of house No. 130/3, Kwesimintsim...
Citation pending | 1982-03-09
Twumasi J. The claim by the plaintiffs is for: (a) a declaration that the defendant is not a chief, that is to say, he has never been nominated, elected and installed as a chief a ccording to Egyambra custom and usage...
Citation pending | 1982-03-05
Judicial review – Declaration – Circumvention of procedure for a pplication for judicial review – Action for declaration circumventing procedure for judicial review – PlaintIffs found guilty of disciplinary offences...