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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1981-02-18
By a summons dated 10 November 1980 the British Airports Authority, the second defendant to an action brought against the authority and the first defendant, the Secretary of State for Trade, by the plaintiffs, Air...
Citation pending | 1981-02-10
In his lifetime Bob Amarteifio (deceased) had seven children, it would a ppear by two different wives, the plaintiff being the son of the one wife, and the defendants the children of another wife called Rosina...
L.88 situated at Kokoso -Sankoa quarters | 1981-02-10
By his writ of summons filed at the registry of this court on 12 June, 1979, the plaintiff claims from the defendant: "(a) The total sum of ¢80,174.26 made up as follows: 1. ¢50,000 general damages for breach of a...
Citation pending | 1981-02-09
By a rticle 114 (1) of the Constitution, 1979 the judicial power of Ghana is vested in the judiciary, and no organ or a gency of the executive or legislature has any final judicial, power. The Stool Lands Boundaries...
Citation pending | 1981-02-06
Injunction – Interlocutory – Danger that defendant may transfer a ssets out of jurisdiction – Discovery or interrogatories in aid of injunction – Power to make order for discovery or interrogatories in aid of Mareva...
Citation pending | 1981-02-05
The defendants a pplied for the variation of a Mareva injunction granted against them in proceedings brought by the plaintiffs, in order to permit them to pay Out of the a ssets which were subject to the injunction...
Citation pending | 1981-01-30
Partnership – Dissolution – Death – Partnership at will – Death of partner – Profits – Estate entitled pending final settlement to receive share of profits or interest on deceased ’ s share of a ssets – Executor...
Citation pending | 1981-01-28
The registered name of a company was ‘ Euroseas Group Finance Company Limited ’ . Two cheques drawn by the company in favour of the plaintiff bore the printed words ‘ per pro Euroseas Group Finance Co Ltd ’ and were...
21094501 | 1981-01-12
Pursuant to leave granted on 11 November 1980 the a pplicant a pplies for an order of certiorari "to quash the ruling of his Honour Judge Owusu -Sekyere in the case Republic v. J. E. K. A. Appiah dated 5 November 1980...
Citation pending | 1981-01-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 GLR 448 and dictum of Francois JSC on Kuenyehia v Archer [1993 -94] 2 GLR 525 at 562, SC January 1981, unreported; and of Lord Haldane in Amodu Tijani v...
Citation pending | 1980-12-19
Nuisance – Statutory nuisance – Abatement notice – Noise – Noise emitted by lift and motor in block of flats – Complaint by tenants of flats a djoining lift shaft – Abatement notice served by local authority on...
Citation pending | 1980-12-03
By the Gulf Oil Refining Act 1965, an oil company ( ‘ Gulf Oil ’ ) were authorised to construct certain works in connection with an oil refinery they intended to establish at Milford Haven. The preamble to the Act...
Citation pending | 1980-11-27
Held – It was not a defence to a charge of a ssault that the a ccused honestly but mistakenly believed that his action was justifed as being reasonable self-defence if there were no reasonable grounds for his belief....
C.920/3 | 1980-11-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 Mr. Randolph failed to pay the purchase price or any part thereof within the stipulated period. And in January 1971 or thereabout he a pproached the...
Citation pending | 1980-11-20
By a writ dated 11 April 1980 the plaintiffs, Allnatt London Properties Ltd ( ‘ the landlords ’ ), sought as against the defendant, Ronald James Newton ( ‘ the tenant ’ ), a declaration that there existed an...
GP. 449. Before she boarded | 1980-11-19
lacerations on the upper part of the right tibia with evulsion of the skin, and compound fracture of the right femur. At the time she gave evidence, [p.628] she was still continuing her treatment at the Korle Bu...
Citation pending | 1980-11-14
Per Curiam. In cases stated under the 1965 Act it is the duty of each party to give the other party notice at the earliest possible moment of any new point which was not taken before the commons commissioner, and if...
Citation pending | 1980-11-14
The plaintiff -company seeks a declaration that it has never been confiscated to the State. It is not challenging the authority which caused the confiscation, but it is saying that the company which was confiscated to...
Citation pending | 1980-11-11
The plaintiffs and the defendants were international traders who entered into a contract whereby in consideration of the plaintiffs introducing to the defendants a buyer for 10,000 tonnes of cement at $49·50 per tonne...
Citation pending | 1980-11-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 deceased under the age of 18 and he quoted a rticle 102, at p.3 of exhibit 4. He a dded that the late Private Hayford Boateng had a wife who is the...
Citation pending | 1980-11-05
from the house, and to decide who should have interim care and control of the children pending determination of the father ’ s summons. The judge ordered, pursuant to s 42(1)a of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, that...
Citation pending | 1980-10-28
The plaintiff -respondents in the above consolidated suits will, for ease of reference, be described hereafter simply as the plaintiffs and the defendant -a ppellants as the defendants. The plaintiffs were the...
42 of 1958 | 1980-10-11
Citation pending | 1980-10-09
Held – The expression ‘ maintenance ’ in note 2 to Group 8 of Sch 4 to the 1972 Act was to be given its ordinary and natural meaning, and what maintenance meant was a question of law for the court to decide. Having...
412/76 Quarcoo v. Allotey. The main issue in that case was whether or not Quarcoo had been removed as joint head of family. It was held that Quarcoo was still a joint head of family. By this judgment | 1980-08-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 was before Abban J. and which was settled and the terms of settlement incorporated into Abban J.'s judgment, dated 23 December 1974. On 18 March 1976,...
C535/3 | 1980-07-31
The plaintiffs are the executors a ppointed under the will of the late Gabriel Quesah Ayayee. The second plaintiff is the daughter of the deceased and the defendant is the brother of the full blood of the second...
15 | 1980-07-31
The issues involved in this suit are in my respectful opinion quite simple and indeed straightforward. Affidavits however have been sworn to by the defendants the effect of which is to give an impression of complexity...
DE 19 Mim | 1980-07-29
By his writ of summons the plaintiff claims against the defendants jointly and severally a declaration that the sale and purchase in execution of certain properties were "illegal, null and void ab initio and of no...
Citation pending | 1980-07-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 for forgiveness. She further told him that this illicit relationship had existed for some time and that she had met the plaintiff at various places...
Citation pending | 1980-07-17
could pass that duty over to Slough as the local authority with whom the families had a local connection. Since both families had resided in Slough for some years, Hillingdon and Ealing ( ‘ the notifying authorities ’...
2 | 1980-07-17
This is an a pplication for summary judgment under the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (LN 140A), Order 14, r.1. The plaintiff is a financial institution established by statute and transacting commercial...
Citation pending | 1980-07-16
Taylor J.S.C. delivered the opinion of the court. This is a chieftaincy suit commenced by a petition headed, "In the Judicial Committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs." The matter came before the chieftaincy...
Citation pending | 1980-07-15
Injunction – Exclusion of party from matrimonial home – County court – Man and woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife – Parties living in small flat – Parties ’ relationship...
Citation pending | 1980-07-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 nevertheless been a dduced without objection, a judge is bound to consider it. Abowaba v. Adeshina (1946) 12 W.A.C.A. 18 and Yartey v. Construction and...
Citation pending | 1980-07-03
Animal – Carriage by sea, air, road or rail – Protection from injury and unnecessary suffering – Jurisdiction of English courts – Carriage of birds from Bombay to London via Kuwait by foreign airline – Delay in Kuwait...
Citation pending | 1980-06-26
of the coins at the time they were concealed being unknown, the coins were treasure trove belonging to the Crown. By order dated 29 November 1978 the action was transferred from the Lincoln District Registry of the...
AF 1291 on 9 October 1974. 5. That Union de Transport Aeriens | 1980-06-23
On or about 12 October 1976 the plaintiff issued out of this court a writ against Pan American World Airways Inc. The indorsement on the writ reads: "The plaintiff claims against the defendants the sum of 6,682.55...
Citation pending | 1980-06-20
Where on an interlocutory a pplication the court intends that one party is to have the costs of that a pplication irrespective of the outcome of the substantive action, the usual form of order is ‘ costs in any event ’...
Citation pending | 1980-06-20
In this a pplication the plaintiffs are a sking for an order of an interim injunction to restrain the second defendants from "(1) making any further releases of the plaintiffs' records, and (2) from making any further...
Citation pending | 1980-06-19
(3) Since the deceased had died interstate the widow ’ s and the son ’ s damages under the 1934 Act were to be determined a ccording to the division of the estate on the intestacy. Under the intestacy the widow was...
15/70 entitled Kobena Amoasi | 1980-06-19
By the indorsement on her writ the plaintiff's claim against the defendants is for: "(a) declaration setting a side the judgment of this honourable court dated 26 August 1975 and confirmed by the judgment of the Court...
Citation pending | 1980-06-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The plaintiff claims against the defendants a declaration of title to a piece of land with a cocoa farm thereon situate at Mpokuampa, Bibiani and...
28 of 1925 | 1980-06-12
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Court – Inferior court – Local valuation court – Defendants proposing to broadcast television programme on issue pending before local valuation court –...
F.9/1 | 1980-06-12
The plaintiff has brought his motion praying the court for an order of interim injunction against the defendants restraining them from entering the top floor of house No. F.9/1, Aboom Road, Cape Coast, and in...
Citation pending | 1980-06-11
love and beauty as opposed to belief in any supernatural power, and (ii) ‘ the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment ’ . Cultivation of that sentiment extended to cultivation among members of the public. The...
2 | 1980-06-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 corporation by ordering the dismissal of the workers. According to the a pplicants, by the terms of its incorporation as contained in NLCD 207, the...
Citation pending | 1980-06-04
Held – The court was entitled, for the purpose of giving effect to a defrauded plaintiff ’ s equitable right to trace his money, to order a bank to disclose the state of, and the documents and correspondence relating...
Citation pending | 1980-05-23
The plaintiff's claim is that she is the proper person to be granted letters of a dministration with will a nnexed in respect of the will of the late Mrs. Mary Dede Obaamra Duncan. The defendant challenges the validity...
Citation pending | 1980-05-20
On 4 March 1977 the defendant declared in a form claiming benefit under the Social Security Act 1975 that he had become unfit to work on Monday, 28 February 1977, and had last worked on Friday, 25 February 1977....
Citation pending | 1980-04-21
The plaintiff and defendant were jointly engaged in the purchase, renovation and resale of a flat. The proceeds of the resale, a mounting to some £3,300, were paid into a bank account in the defendant ’ s name. A...