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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1975-02-28
By an originating summons dated 30 September 1974, the plaintiff, The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Ltd (the company ’ ), sought the determination of the court whether the liability of the company in respect of...
Citation pending | 1975-02-11
The plaintiffs, a Dutch company which manufactured a luminium foil in Holland, sold quantities of foil to the defendants, an English company carrying on business in England. Clause 13 of the general selling terms and...
Citation pending | 1975-01-28
In this case, the plaintiff has sued the defendant claiming a declaration of title to a piece of land at South Odorkor, Accra, and also damages for trespass, perpetual injunction and recovery of possession. [p.113] On...
Citation pending | 1975-01-23
‘ The Court is a sked to determine whether, as the negligence and/or breach of contractual duty complained of by the Plaintiff occurred on or about 21st September 1966, and as the damage flowing therefrom occurred on...
2 | 1974-12-20
Amissah J.A. he delivered the judgment of the court. We a llowed this appeal on 17 October 1974 reserving our reasons. We now give them. The a ppellant, Edward Osei Agyemang, an education officer, was convicted by...
3 | 1974-12-10
Amissah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 12 July 1974, the ordinary bench of this court gave its reasons for dismissing the appeal of the present a pplicants, Addoquaye Allotey and his wife Enid, in their...
Citation pending | 1974-11-27
This was an appeal from an interlocutor of the Second Division of the Court of Session as the Court of Exchequer in Scotland ([1974] STC 320) (Lord Kissen, Lord Fraser and Lord Keith) dated 31 January 1974 refusing an...
40 | 1974-11-19
Upon an a pplication made to the court under the Habeas Corpus Act, 1964 (Act 244), on 8 November 1974, I ordered that the Commanding Officer of the Third Battalion of Infantry, Ghana Army, Sunyani, do produce the...
Citation pending | 1974-11-14
Injunction – Interlocutory – Principle governing grant – Prima facie case – Serious question to be tried – Unnecessary for a pplicant to establish prima facie case – Open to court to consider whether on balance of...
Citation pending | 1974-11-13
Document – Construction – Duty of court – Concession by party – Concession as to meaning of document – Court not bound by concession – Construction a question of law – Duty of court to construe document.
Citation pending | 1974-11-07
Held – (i) When dealing with an a pplication to reject a spouse from the matrimonial home, particularly where it was clear that the marriage had already broken down, the court should think essentially in terms of...
Citation pending | 1974-11-05
of Sch 4 to the 1971 Act, since the a daptation of the van had not terminated its suitability as a goods vehicle but had merely decreased it, and the concrete lighting pillars which the van had been carrying were not ‘...
2775160 or any of them are in restraint of trade | 1974-11-05
The a ppellant ( ‘ Amoco ’ ) was a refiner and distributor of petroleum products and the respondent ( ‘ Rocca ’ ) was a motor engineering company incorporated for the purpose of carrying on business as a service...
21619/GC/2 NELSON ADDO Service Inquiry | 1974-11-04
Following a service inquiry held into your conduct by Mr. A. A. Asare Assistant Superintendent, in a ccordance with regulation 4 (3) (c) of the Police Service (Disciplinary Proceedings) Regulations, 1971, (L.I. 688),...
42 of 1958 | 1974-11-01
On 13 August 1974, the a ppellant was a rraigned before the Akim Oda District Court Grade I charged with the offence of the use of an uninsured vehicle contrary to section 3 (1) of the Motor Vehicles (Third Party...
Citation pending | 1974-11-01
This appeal is brought against the conviction and sentence of the a ppellant by the District Magistrate Grade I, Sunyani (sitting at Bechem) on one count of careless driving and on many counts for negligently causing...
Citation pending | 1974-10-28
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 | 1974-10-16
Held – (i) A distinction had to be made between standard form contracts made freely between parties bargaining on equal terms and a standard form contracts, such as that made between the defendants and the plaintiff,...
GG 196 had been traced and the person found in it had been a rrested. I a ccompanied the senior police officer | 1974-08-02
Crabbe C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellants were convicted before Okai J. at the criminal session of the High Court of Justice, Kumasi, Ashanti Region, on 4 August 1972, for the murder of John...
Citation pending | 1974-07-30
This is an appeal from the judgment of the high Court, Sekondi. The facts can be stated briefly. By an a mended writ, the plaintiff sought the enforcement of an a rbitration a ward which declared in his favour, title...
WR 8691 driven by his servant | 1974-07-30
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, whereby the court entered judgment for the plaintiff and a warded very substantial damages for damage to his vehicle and
Citation pending | 1974-07-30
The two a ppellants were charged and tried jointly at the District Court Grade I, Tamale, for stealing 30 bags of paddy rice valued at ¢240.00 the property of the Ministry of Agriculture, Savelugu. On
Citation pending | 1974-07-25
Will – Gift – Personal chattels – Articles of personal use – Furniture – Clocks – Collection of clocks – Collection inherited by testator – Collection stored in locked rooms by testator but not a dded to – Whether...
Citation pending | 1974-07-25
This is a running down case and the plaintiff is claiming damages for the physical injuries which he sustained in the a ccident. It may be noted that judgment in default of a ppearance was entered for the plaintiff by...
Citation pending | 1974-07-22
On 18 June 1974 I dismissed an objection raised by the second defendant's counsel to the jurisdiction of this court to entertain the plaintiffs' action and reserved my reasons which I now proceed to deliver. [p.194]...
Citation pending | 1974-07-17
By an originating summons dated 15 March 1973 the Attorney General, on the relation of Bedfordshire County Council, claimed (i) an injunction restraining the defendants, the trustees of the Howard United Reformed...
Citation pending | 1974-07-10
This was an appeal by the plaintiffs, Bahamas International Trust Co Ltd and Harold Revington, the trustees of property known as Bolesworth Estate, against a judgment of his Honour Judge D T Lloyd-Jones given at Crewe...
Citation pending | 1974-07-10
The action is for the recovery of ¢10,000.00 as damages for malicious prosecution. The parties come from a town called Maase near Tafo in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Are a. At the time the cause of action a rose, the...
C.27 | 1974-07-08
This is an interpleader proceeding in which the claimant Kofi Adu of Dichemso, Kumasi, claims that as between him and the defendant judgment creditors he should be declared to have a better title to house No. C.27,...
Citation pending | 1974-07-04
Contempt of court – Criminal contempt – Jurisdiction – Summary committal – Power of judge on own motion to commit summarily for contempt – Circumstances in which power exercisable – Gross interference with course of...
Citation pending | 1974-07-02
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 This is an appeal from the decision of the District Court Grade II, Dunkwa, dated 4 August 1972. That decision dismissed a trespass action by the...
D10/Vol. 3/173 of 31 October 1972. | 1974-07-02
This a pplication is for an order of certiorari to quash the decision of the Kwahu Traditional Council at its meeting of 23 October 1972 and 24 October 1972. The a pplication originated in the High Court, Accra, on 9...
Citation pending | 1974-06-28
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 A counterclaim was put in by the defendant for the shortages discovered after the stock -taking of 1968, and which were the cause of the plaintiff's...
Citation pending | 1974-06-26
Divorce – Property – Adjustment order – Settlement of property – Benefit of other party or children – Matrimonial home – Husband sole owner at law – Exclusion of husband from home – Jurisdiction of court – Husband...
Citation pending | 1974-06-23
Condonation of a dultery is not the same thing as forgiveness in the ordinary sense of that word. It operates merely as a suspension of the husband ’ s rights to divorce, and that suspension lasts only so long as the...
Citation pending | 1974-06-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The original action was a claim principally for a rrears of rent and damages for disrepair under a tenancy a greement, the defendant (hereinafter called...
Citation pending | 1974-06-10
The short but important point a rgued in this appeal was whether or not the Adansi Traditional Council was seised with jurisdiction whenless than one half of the total number of its membership sat to hear and determine...
2 | 1974-05-31
On 26 November 1973, his honour Judge A. Gogo, sitting at the Circuit Court, Hohoe, had a rraigned before him two gentlemen charged with stealing ¢2,000.00 and ¢40.00 respectively. The property the subject -matter of...
Citation pending | 1974-05-30
The petitioner in this case is a marine engineer and is a native of the Netherlands whilst the respondent is a Ghanaian by birth. On 21 July 1951 the petitioner married the respondent at the Sekondi District Marriage...
Citation pending | 1974-05-22
European Economic Community – Implementation of treaty in United Kingdom – Rights etc created by provisions of treaty – Rights created by provisions of treaty enforceable in English courts – European Communities Act...
42 of 1958 | 1974-05-16
This is an a pplication by the State Insurance Corporation (which shall hereafter be referred to simply as the a pplicants) the underwriters of the defendant in this action, to set a side a default judgment obtained by...
Citation pending | 1974-05-13
Writ – Indorsement – Amendment – Additional relief – Leave given to serve notice out of jurisdiction – Subsequent a pplication to a mend writ by claiming a dditional relief – Additional relief such that leave to serve...
Citation pending | 1974-05-08
Held (Sir Gordon Willmer dissenting) – The board were entitled to require the local authority to make a contribution towards the cost of the 27 inch trunk main for (i) on the true construction of s 37(1) a trunk main...
Citation pending | 1974-05-07
The petition was presented on 17 October 1973, and the answer was filed on 1 February 1974. The cause was a ccordingly transferred to the High Court, where it came on for trial before me today. I was then informed that...
3 | 1974-05-06
This appeal raises very difficult problems of interpretation, and, in my view, this is the result of the proliferation of over -hasty Decrees which characterised the closing months of the a dministration of the...
Citation pending | 1974-05-06
This appeal raises some interesting questions about the true requirements of a doption of a child in customary law. Although there is some controversy between the parties on the facts, there is also between them, a...
Citation pending | 1974-05-03
Practice – Document – Detention by court – Inherent jurisdiction – Document material to case – Interests of justice – Document not proved or put in evidence – Document submitted for inspection consequent on order of...
Citation pending | 1974-04-25
This is an appeal against the decision of a district court grade I dated 19 August 1971 setting a side an auction sale on the grounds of an a lleged irregularity. It is necessary to show the background of the matter....
Citation pending | 1974-04-11
In April 1974 the Inland Revenue Commissioners, a cting under s 460(6)a of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970, notified the taxpayer that they had reason to believe that s 460 might apply to him in respect of...
Citation pending | 1974-04-03
Kportorgbe. They Saviour Gawuga could not be found in his bedroom but there were traces of blood on the verandah leading to the bedroom. Three days later, in the a fternoon of 20 April 1969, a school teacher at...