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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1976-02-24
The dispute in this case relates to a piece of land at Jukwa measuring 200 ft. by 150 ft. and a butting the Cape Coast -Jukwa road. It contains what was described in the site plan as a "residence" and two zinc sheds....
1 represented by Komfo Dadzie | 1976-02-24
In an action in the High Court, Cape Coast, the a ppellant sued for trespass to his family land described as "Okuntan -Osubun situate at Gomoa Hwida . . . bounded on the north by Obofu - Annan, in another direction by...
Citation pending | 1976-02-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 [p.492] The plaintiffs, counsel also replied thus: “The question objected to is a question put under cross -examination and I have been under the...
Citation pending | 1976-02-16
Appeal – Review of exercise of discretion – Circumstances in which a ppellate court will interfere – Pleading – Amendment – Appeal against refusal of leave to a mend writ – Judge not shown to have erred in principle –...
Citation pending | 1976-02-11
The a ppellant was a rraigned before the Circuit Court, Sunyani, on a charge of defilement of a female under ten years of age contrary to section 101 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). The particulars of the offence...
Citation pending | 1976-02-09
Apaloo J. delivered the judgment of the court. The respondents (hereafter called the plaintiffs) are all qualified lawyers and were enrolled under the Legal Profession Act, 1960 (Act 32), to practise their profession....
Citation pending | 1976-02-09
This appeal is by the a ppellant against a sentence of two years’ imprisonment with hard labour passed on him on 28 October 1975, on his conviction on his own plea of guilty to a charge of possessing Indian hemp...
Citation pending | 1976-01-29
The a ccused has been in custody since his a rrest on 27 June 1975. He is 68 years old and now complains of ill -health as a result of his detention in custody. So he a pplies for bail pending the determination of this...
Citation pending | 1976-01-28
The plaintiff in this a pplication is seeking an order of this court "restraining the defendant by itself, its a gents, servants and privies from publishing or causing to be published for distribution, sale or use in...
Citation pending | 1976-01-22
The a ppellant in this case and one other as the first a ccused were a rraigned before the district court grade I charged on two counts with the offences of conspiracy to steal contrary to section 23 of the Criminal...
NT 5 Akim Swedru that is to say whether the widow has exclusive right to the house. | 1976-01-14
By his originating summons issued out of this court on 25 August 1975 the plaintiff as successor of the late J. O. Appiah of Akim Swedru calls for determination the following: "By a judgment of this honourable court...
B.211/2 | 1975-12-19
This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court, Accra. The a ppellants were employed by the Chamber of Mines, hereinafter referred to simply as the Chamber, and they were based in
Citation pending | 1975-12-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 property should pass, just as in similar circumstances the property would pass by actual delivery of the goods. The holder of the bill of lading is...
Citation pending | 1975-12-16
The a ppellant was a rraigned before the district court grade II on 1 August 1975 on a charge of stealing a shirt valued at ¢6.00, the property of one John Kwaku Nsiah. He pleaded guilty to the charge and he was...
Citation pending | 1975-12-15
The a ppellant in this case was a rraigned before the circuit court on two counts. The first count is "possessing Indian hemp contrary to sections 47 (1) and 57 of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act, 1961 (Act 64)," and the...
Citation pending | 1975-12-08
Practice – Preservation of subject-matter of cause of action – Inspection – Interlocutory motion – Ex parte a pplication – Documents on premises controlled by respondents – Orders requiring respondents to permit a...
Citation pending | 1975-12-08
The vendor was the tenant of a flat held under a lease for a term expiring on 24 December 1976. The a nnual rent of the flat was £850 and the vendor was a protected tenant within the Rent Act 1968. By a contract dated...
Citation pending | 1975-12-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (11) That while they were at Tafo, it became the habit of the petitioner to try to prevent the respondent from going out or going on his hunting...
2 | 1975-12-05
ANIN J.A. delivered the ruling of the court. This is an a pplication by the a pplicant company for the grant of an order staying proceedings of the respondent committee pending the hearing and determination of the...
Citation pending | 1975-12-01
Jamaica – Constitutional law – Judicature – Higher judiciary – Jurisdiction – Constitution impliedly prohibiting transfer of jurisdiction to courts consisting of members of lower judiciary – Constitution containing...
Citation pending | 1975-12-01
On 1 December 1975 this court entered judgment for the plaintiffs against the defendant under Order 14, r. 1 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A). On the same day a motion to set a side the...
Citation pending | 1975-11-28
Francois J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The parties herein were married some 46 years ago and have five children who have all a ttained the age of maturity. Towards the twilight of their lives they [p.124]...
Citation pending | 1975-11-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 This is an appeal by the first defendants from the ruling of the Accra High Court dated 27 June 1974 dismissing a motion filed by them under Order 25,...
719/73 and the particulars of offence contained in the charge sheet are as follows | 1975-11-24
I must preface this judgment with an expression of a deep concern which has built up gradually over the years as to the a pparent difficulty of our courts to dispense justice to our people particularly the poor class....
6 o f 1944 | 1975-11-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 it without obtaining a permit to do so from its engineer. It says that the house being an unauthorised structure, it was entitled, after complying with...
Citation pending | 1975-11-11
In 1964 the plaintiff was taken into his uncle ’ s business, which was then a private company. The plaintiff ’ s uncle gave the plaintiff a parcel of shares in the company. By a written a greement it was provided that...
Citation pending | 1975-11-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Republic v High Court, Accra and another ex parte Darke XII and another (No 2) [1992 – 1993] 3 G B Practice and procedure – Certiorari – Consequential...
When he brought the receipt it was without | 1975-11-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Zanyo v Fofie [1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 1353 – 1437 S C below if court a pplied wrong principles or considered irrelevant matters or excluded crucial...
Citation pending | 1975-11-03
The a ppellant, a Malian, was found to have bought a quantity of maize of about 22 cocoa sackfuls besides a sizeable quantity of drying mats, at Abesim, a village six miles from Sunyani. There was evidence that the...
Citation pending | 1975-10-22
The respondent was injured while driving his car and taken to hospital. Later two police officers went to the hospital and spoke to the doctor in charge of the respondent ’ s case. The doctor confirmed that it was in...
Citation pending | 1975-10-17
On 21 May 1974, the a ppellant Kwame Santuoh was convicted of dishonestly receiving by a Kumasi circuit court and sentenced to four years' imprisonment with hard labour. The facts leading to the trial and conviction of...
Citation pending | 1975-10-01
Constitutional law – Cabinet – Proceedings – Disclosure of documents or information – Confidential information – Public interest in non-disclosure – Disclosure of information by cabinet minister – Injunction – Power of...
Citation pending | 1975-07-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Crayem v Consolidated African Trust Ltd (1949) 12 W ACA 443 and Amuzu v Oklikah [1997 -98] 1 GLR, SC (9) Dellenty v Pellow [1951] 2 KB 858; [1951] 2...
Citation pending | 1975-07-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 a ccused is at large therefore the charge against him having been withdrawn the trial proceeded against the second a ccused in the circuit court which...
Citation pending | 1975-07-09
Until 1965 the a ppellants, A and W, carried on a partnership business in New Zealand as public a ccountants. At all material times W was secretary of four finance companies which were concerned with the provision of...
Citation pending | 1975-07-04
The a ffidavit in support of the motion for bail brought on behalf of the a pplicant discloses that the a pplicant who stood his trial before the circuit court on charges of threatening was initially
Citation pending | 1975-07-01
Under a trust disposition and settlement and relative codicil in Scottish form ( ‘ the trust deed ’ ) of the deceased, trustees held certain investments and property for a limentary liferent use of W, who was the...
Citation pending | 1975-06-25
The a ppellants were jointly charged under sections 47 (1) and 57 of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act, 1961 (Act 64) (as a mended by the Pharmacy and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1963 (Act 222)), for possessing 41.00 grammes of...
Citation pending | 1975-06-24
Frank Charles Astley and Jack Fred Johnson, the trustees of the estate of Dorothy Astley deceased ( ‘ the deceased ’ ), a ppealed against the order of Megarry J ([1974] STC 367) dated 22 May 1974 whereby, on an...
Citation pending | 1975-06-12
By writ issued on 19 March 1971 the plaintiffs, (1) Matthew Anderson, (2) John Samuel Learoyd and (3) Constance Learoyd, claimed a declaration that exclusive grazing rights over Eavestone Moor in the West Riding of...
J. 4171 -CI -1 towards Bolgatanga direction | 1975-06-11
The writ of summons a ccompanied by a statement of claim in this action was by leave of the court served on 26 September 1974 on the defendant. The action is founded in negligence and has been brought for the benefit...
127 of 1961 and No. 15 of 1963 but not including Law No. 150 of 1964. | 1975-06-05
Egypt. The a greement was intended to dispose of all outstanding matters concerning British property in Egypt including property which had been sequestrated. Under the a greement a fund was made a vailable by the...
Citation pending | 1975-05-22
Industrial tribunal – Procedure – Advocate – Witnesses – Right of a dvocate to call witnesses in order chosen by him – Tribunal interfering with right – Duty of a ppellate court – Advocate instructed by tribunal to...
Citation pending | 1975-05-21
C & K (Construction) Ltd ( ‘ the taxpayer company ’ ) was a private company with an issued share capital of £100 divided into 100 £1 shares. Ninety-nine of those shares were registered in the name of another company,...
Citation pending | 1975-05-19
Judgment – Judicial decision as authority – Ratio decidendi – Proposition of law forming part of ratio decidendi – Proposition a ssumed to be correct for purpose of disposing of case – Point of law not a rgued – Privy...
Citation pending | 1975-05-19
The plaintiff, a limited company, was the publisher of a newspaper in Antigua called the ‘ Antigua Times ’ . The plaintiff commenced proceedings in the High Court under s 15(1)a of the Constitution of Antiguab seeking...
Citation pending | 1975-05-07
A Congregational church was built between 1773 and 1777 and remained continuously in use for public religious worship until 1971. The building, as enlarged in 1849, comprised the church, a church hall and schoolrooms....
Citation pending | 1975-05-05
Execution – Charging order – Charge for securing payment of moneys due or to become due under judgment or order – Unascertained sum – Costs – Taxation of costs not completed at date of a pplication for charging order –...
Citation pending | 1975-04-18
By an ordinary writ of summons filed on 3 July 1973, the plaintiff claimed against the defendant: "(1) The refund of ¢7,814.00 being the a ggregate sum expended by her as the customary agent of necessity of the...
Citation pending | 1975-04-16
The pursuers, a company registered in Hong Kong, had a claim against the defenders, a Korean company, for over £160,000. The pursuer company had no directors and did not hold any general meetings in 1968 or 1969. In...