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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1972-02-08
This was an appeal by the defendants, Shonleigh Nominees Ltd, against the judgment of Goulding J, delivered on 28 April 1971 and reported at [1971] 3 AllER 473, whereby he made a declaration in favour of the plaintiff,...
Citation pending | 1972-01-27
The defendants denied, inter a lia, that the words complained of or any of them were capable of bearing or bore any meaning defamatory of the plaintiff and further or a lternatively a lleged that the words were fair...
Citation pending | 1971-12-21
Divorce – Separation – Two year separation – Consent to decree by respondent – Petitioner legally aided – Consent on terms that there be no order as to costs – Omission of prayer for costs from the petition – Whether...
Citation pending | 1971-11-26
Divorce – Behaviour of respondent – Behaviour such that petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with respondent – Reasonableness – Necessity for court to consider characteristics and behaviour of petitioner as...
Citation pending | 1971-11-22
The testator by his will gave his son, S, a power of a ppointment over one-quarter of his residuary estate. The power of a ppointment was limited to ‘ all or such one or more exclusively of the … children or remoter...
Citation pending | 1971-11-18
By notice of motion dated 25 October 1971 Anthony Brian Baldry, the plaintiff in an action commenced against David Feintuck, Christopher Bosley, Robert Gordon (sued on their own behalf and on behalf of all members of...
Citation pending | 1971-10-13
Income tax – Appeal – Appeal against a dditional a ssessment – Hearing – Adjournment – Unjustified refusal of a djournment – Effect – Whether ground for rehearing or for discharge of a ssessment – Assessment under Sch...
It is only in very exceptional cases that bail is a llo wed by this Court. | 1971-09-27
This is an a pplication for bail pending appeal. In my opinion it is a matter of great moment and of the utmost importance and calls for very a nxious and serious consideration. This is because it
3/12 | 1971-07-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 repaired and painted together with all fixtures belonging thereto to the lessor. Provided a lways that if and whenever the said rent hereby reserved or...
Citation pending | 1971-07-29
This was an appeal by the defendant, Robert Reed, from the judgment of Master Elton, on 8 March 1971, given on an a ssessment of damages pursuant to RSC Ord 37, r 1. The damages were claimed by the plaintiffs, Anglia...
59 of 1941 and No. 3 of 1948 | 1971-07-28
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 all probability to water having been dropping on the mechanical brakes. He did notice at the time a leakage from the roof of the engine room. Even so...
The learned trial judge gave him protection by relying on an exemption clause in the mortgage deed protecting a purchaser for value without notice of non -compliance with certain requi rements in the mortgage | 1971-07-19
Archer J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant obtained a loan of £G800 from the first respondent, a moneylender, and as security for the loan, he executed a deed of mortgage encumbrancing his house, a...
D 893/3 | 1971-07-19
This is an appeal from the concurrent judgments of the District Magistrate's Court and the High Court, Accra, both upholding the validity of a notice to quit given by the respondents to the a ppellants under section 17...
Citation pending | 1971-07-16
This a pplication was brought under Order 59, r. 21 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A), calling upon the respondents to show cause why they should not be a ttached for contempt. The...
Citation pending | 1971-07-15
Discovery – Production of documents – Privilege – Confidential documents – Documents obtained in confidence from third parties for purposes of litigation – Party to litigation not obliged to produce documents or copies...
05/3 situated at Berekum | 1971-07-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 9 Ordinance (supra), the power of sale exercised by the first defendant was null and void and of no effect. The first defendant denied the plaintiff 's a...
Citation pending | 1971-07-13
On an appeal against conviction on indictment, the court may ‘ apply the proviso ’ a notwithstanding that there has been a misdirection in the judge ’ s summing-up, if the jury, having been properly directed, would...
Citation pending | 1971-07-12
with s 5(1)a of the 1970 Act, it is not a lways possible for the court to treat matrimonial conduct like contributory negligence, and make a deduction from the full maintenance in proportion to the wife ’ s...
Citation pending | 1971-07-12
This is an appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court, Sekondi, dismissing the plaintiff - a ppellant’s (hereafter referred to as the a ppellant) claim for goods sold and delivered and a llowing the counterclaim of...
Citation pending | 1971-07-12
Will — Probate — Proof in common form — Proof in solemn form — Distinction between the two forms of proof — Whether a will which has been proved in common form can subsequently be proved in solemn form. Will — Codicil...
Citation pending | 1971-07-07
Injunction – Jurisdiction – Statute – Breach of statute – Statutory remedy in magistrates ’ court for breach – Defendants a llegedly in breach of statutory requirement not to occupy premises until fire certificate...
8 Block 12 | 1971-07-07
By his writ of summons of 17 September 1968 the plaintiff -respondent hereinafter to be referred to in this judgment as the respondent claimed against the defendant -a ppellants hereinafter referred to as the [p.370] a...
Citation pending | 1971-07-05
This is an appeal from the decision of the late Owusu J. whereby he declared that the respondent, as the customary successor, was a lone entitled to the grant of letters of a dministration in respect of the estate of...
Citation pending | 1971-06-23
certiorari to quash the order of the District Magistrate, Keta, dated 25 May 1970 decreeing penalties on the failure to pay a judgment debt due to the respondents. The facts seem to me uncomplicated. The a pplicant and...
Citation pending | 1971-06-18
The petitioner herein seeks divorce on the sole ground that his marriage with the respondent has broken down irretrievably and there is no possibility of a reconciliation and that the petitioner and the respondent have...
2463/70 | 1971-06-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 a pplicant. Was the a pplicant expected to stop his business as a citizen and to keep running up and down to the respondent to find out whether the deed...
3 | 1971-06-10
(ii) Although the damages for loss of earnings were on the high side, there was nothing in the judge ’ s findings to justify the court in interfering with his a ward (see p 827 j and p 828 b, h and j, post).
Citation pending | 1971-06-09
Costs – Security for costs – Plaintiff ordinarily resident out of the jurisdiction – Action for damages for breach of contract – Stipulation in contract that litigation to be conducted in English courts – Discretion of...
Citation pending | 1971-06-08
Divorce – Custody – Access – Welfare of child – Custody granted to mother on divorce – Access by father having possible detrimental effect on child – Child unwilling to have access – Father not shown to be other than...
Citation pending | 1971-06-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 learned state a ttorney to satisfy me whether I could call on the a ccused to answer for a higher offence where he had been charged with a lesser...
Citation pending | 1971-05-28
Anin J.S.C. delivered the judgment of himself and Apaloo J.S.C. At the Ashanti Criminal Session held at the Kumasi High Court on 2 August 1969 before Annan J. (as he then was) sitting with the aid of a ssessors, the a...
Citation pending | 1971-05-26
Vexatious proceedings – Instituting or continuing vexatious legal proceedings – Leave to institute or continue proceedings – Discretion – Exercise of discretion – Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, s...
Citation pending | 1971-05-19
B, the chairman and managing director of a company, settled by deed a trust fund for the benefit of officers, employees, etc, of the company. Clause 9 of the deed, so far as material, provided: ‘ The Trustees shall...
17 of 1936 | 1971-05-17
Anin J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiffs, members of a land syndicate, instituted this action in the Accra High Court for a declaration of title to a tract of land known as Akwamu Kotoku land...
Citation pending | 1971-05-12
(ii) Although the court had power to stay an injured plaintiff ’ s action pending his submission to a medical examination reasonably requested by the defendant when the plaintiff ’ s refusal to submit was unreasonable,...
Citation pending | 1971-05-04
Azu Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 9 November 1970 when the above appeal came on for hearing, neither the claimant -a ppellant (the a pplicant herein) nor his counsel a ttended the court, and the...
Citation pending | 1971-05-03
Archer J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 17 June 1970, Levandowsky & B.A.S.E. Group filed a specially endorsed writ, for service on the Attorney -General for and on behalf of the
Citation pending | 1971-04-30
The a ppellant pleaded guilty to a count of a ssault and of causing damage to property contrary to sections 84 and 172 respectively of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29), before the District Court Grade II, Bekwai. He...
Citation pending | 1971-04-28
By a summons dated 16 April 1969, a mended by an order of Plowman J on 2 April 1970 whereby the Attorney General was substituted for the former plaintiff, the Hampshire County Council, the plaintiff sought a...
Citation pending | 1971-04-28
This is an appeal from the decision of the District Court Grade II, Agona, presided over by Mr. Eric Piesare. By his decision dated 13 January 1971, the magistrate purported to have convicted the a ppellant for...
Citation pending | 1971-04-27
This was an appeal by the defendant, Servansingh, from a decision of his Honour Judge McLellan sitting at Lambeth County Court dated 8 September 1970, whereby it was held that the plaintiffs, Arlesford Trading Co Ltd,...
Citation pending | 1971-04-23
The plaintiffs claimed ownership of the United Kingdom copyright in two operas by an Italian composer under a number of Italian a greements. The composer was dead and the plaintiffs ’ claim was contested by the...
Citation pending | 1971-04-08
This motion for relistment and for directions has been necessitated by an order made in chambers by the full bench of the Court of Appeal on or about 12 May 1977 and a subsequent letter dated 19 August 1980 received by...
F.Y 301/68 -69 by inserting the name of one E. K. Adu whom you knew was not in existence for an amount of N | 1971-04-07
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 amount remaining, that is to say, the part of the salary of the so -called Mr. E. K. Adu that was not used. The salary of the Mr. E. K. Adu was to be...
Citation pending | 1971-04-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (4) (a), provides as follows: "(4) (a) Your engagement may be terminated at any time by one party giving to the other notless than a month's notice in...
Citation pending | 1971-04-05
This is an appeal from the judgment of Sowah J. (as he then was) whereby he reversed the decision of the magistrate sitting in the Dzodze Local Court, and entered judgment, together with costs, for the respondents. The...
Citation pending | 1971-04-02
Held – (Bridge J dissenting) The appeal would be dismissed because the a ppellants ’ a ctivities had caused the entry of the polluting matter into the river; whether or not the a ppellants could show that they had...
5 | 1971-04-02
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 2 May 1969, at the Criminal Session of the High Court, Accra, before Edward Wiredu J., sitting with the aid of a jury, the two a ppellants and four others, were a...
AS 5117. On 7 January 1962 -during the currency of the said hire - purchase a greement -the said lorry was being driven by the first def endant | 1971-03-29
The a ppellants (who were the third defendants at the trial) were the owners of a timber log production unit at Awaso. They let their entire production unit and business to the second defendant (who did not appeal)...
2 | 1971-03-29
It is not disputed that the plaintiff's family, the Nikoi Olai stool family (hereafter called the "Nikoi Olai family" for short) are the owners of a tract of land called Mukose lands. It is also not disputed that a...