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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1970-05-28
On 6 December 1968, the plaintiffs, who carried on business as hirers and sellers of gaming machines, and had recently sought to acquire a controlling interest in Butlin ’ s Ltd, a big entertainment company, brought a...
Citation pending | 1970-05-28
On 12 February 1971 I a llowed the appeal against the conviction of the a ppellant by the District Court Grade II, Nkawkaw, on a charge of stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29)....
Citation pending | 1970-05-27
Trust and trustee – Trust for sale – Realty – Express trust – Trust in will to sell and divide proceeds among beneficiaries – Nature of beneficiaries ’ interests – Tenants in common of proceeds of sale – No interest in...
Citation pending | 1970-04-22
This was an action by Andrew Charles Baker, claiming damages against his employers, F Rendell & Sons Ltd, for injuries sustained on 30 March 1966, while he was employed as an a pprentice bricklayer. The facts are set...
Citation pending | 1970-04-17
This a pplication seeks an order of certiorari to quash the proceedings in a suit instituted before the judicial committee of the Ahanta Traditional Council. The a pplicant is the chief of Takoradi [p.234] and it would...
91 | 1970-03-23
defendant is for: "(a) A declaration that he be declared elected member of Parliament for Chiana -Paga constituency. (b) An injunction against the defendant, from holding an election in the Chiana -Paga Constituency...
Citation pending | 1970-03-12
(i) as to the s 42 charges, there was no lottery because the participants had not made any payment or contribution, either towards the prizes themselves, or towards funds, ie profits, out of which prizes were provided...
Citation pending | 1970-03-06
Income tax – Appeal – Appeal against a dditional a ssessment under Sch E – Adjournment of appeal – Assessment made in respect of unexplained increase in taxpayer ’ s wealth – Increase a lleged by Crown to represent...
Citation pending | 1970-03-03
This was an appeal by B S Brown & Son Ltd against an interlocutor of the First Division of the Court of Session (the Lord President (Lord Clyde), Lord Guthrie and Lord Migdale) dated 10 July 1969 and reported [1969]...
Citation pending | 1970-02-16
This was a transferred suit from the Anlo State A and Native Appeal Court, Keta, to the Lands Court, Accra. Pleadings were ordered and filed, but upon the establishment of a High Court at Ho, the case was further...
Citation pending | 1970-01-28
Injunction – Ex parte injunction – Jurisdiction to make – Court ’ s inability to hear full a pplication – No fault of plaintiff or defendant – Prima facie case showing irreparable damage likely to plaintiff.
2 | 1970-01-27
Amua -Sekyi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the majority. On 4 May 1988, the High Court, Cape Coast gave judgment for the plaintiff, Kojo Mensah, for: (a) declaration that Accra Standfast Football Club (Standfast) are...
6 Block P | 1970-01-22
The a ppellants are rogues. They were found by the learned trial judge, Koranteng -Addow. J., to have fabricated a case and to have suborned witnesses to put that case to the court. They do not complain about that....
C 1 | 1970-01-19
On 20 December 1969 I gave a decision dismissing the motion filed on behalf of the a pplicant and I reserved the reasons for the said decision. I now proceed to give the reasons for my so dismissing the motion. On 12...
2 | 1970-01-13
The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) brought this action in the High Court for the following reliefs: "(1) Declaration of title, and recovery of possession of all that piece and parcel...
Citation pending | 1970-01-12
Per Dunn J. Only if the words are a mbiguous does it become necessary for me to consider whether s 6 is penal in its effect or designed for the protection of the subject, in which case s 6(4) falls to be construed...
Citation pending | 1969-12-19
Shipping – General a verage expenditure – Vessel and cargo in position of peril – Towage contract on UK Standard Towage Conditions giving wide indemnity to tug owners – Contract a general a verage act – Expenditure...
Citation pending | 1969-12-17
In the first appeal, a Dutch company, resident in the Netherlands, carried on the business of reinsurance with overseas subsidiaries and had a permanent branch in London. Under its constitution it could be and was...
Citation pending | 1969-12-15
MILMO J read the following judgment. In this case the plaintiffs are claiming from the defendants £3,094 7s 9d as holders in due course of five cheques, four for £500 each and one for £850, dated 17 November 1964,...
27 of 1943 | 1969-12-02
Archer J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Accra, which refused to grant leave for the issue of an order of certiorari to quash an a ssessment made by the...
Citation pending | 1969-12-01
In June 1968, the husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s a dultery, a sked for custody of the child of the marriage and for damages and ‘ that the co-respondent be ordered to pay the costs of this...
Citation pending | 1969-11-17
The Minister has been given by Parliament a complete discretion under s 43(4); he is a cting, during the exercise of that discretion, a dministratively as between the local authority and himself, and there are no...
Citation pending | 1969-10-13
This was an action brought by a husband and wife, Jehangir Hormusji Bativala and Dhum Bativala, against Mrs J L West (trading under the name Westways Riding Academy) to recover damages in negligence for injuries...
Citation pending | 1969-10-08
This was an appeal by Sandra Lesley Barnes (an infant suing by Leslie Frederick Barnes her next friend) from an order of the Court of Appeal (Diplock LJ and Goff J; Lord Denning MR dissenting) dated 5 July 1968 and...
Citation pending | 1969-09-11
of £500 in respect of every aircraft of a particular type sold by Handley Page. The type of aircraft in question was one particularly suitable for the a viation executive market and was known as the ‘ Jetstream ’ ....
Citation pending | 1969-07-28
The a rbitrator in a dispute between the claimants, who were building contractors, and the respondent (for whom they had built a house) made an a ward in which he itemised 43 matters which had been referred to him and...
Citation pending | 1969-07-11
By his will, the testator, who died in February 1954, devised a cottage to his trustees on trust for his widow for life so long as she remained unmarried, thereafter to his sister for life (she predeceased the testator...
Citation pending | 1969-06-05
Settlement – Tenant for life – Joint tenants – Power of sale – Disagreement as to exercise of power – No evidence of mala fides in refusing to concur in sale – Whether court could order sale – Whether court should do...
Citation pending | 1969-05-23
This was an appeal to the judge in chambers by the plaintiff in an action for personal injuries, Albert John Atwell, from the decision of Master Diamond given on 7 May 1968, refusing to order on a summons for...
Citation pending | 1969-05-22
The court, having the widest possible powers under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965, s 31, to vary orders for maintenance, is not precluded from entertaining a husband ’ s a pplication to vary maintenance orders made by...
Citation pending | 1969-05-19
By his policy of insurance it was obligatory on the defendant to inform his insurers, the third party, at the risk of forfeiture, of any claim made against him within five days of the claim. The defendant drove his...
Citation pending | 1969-05-09
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Beecham Foods Ltd by writ issued on 17 October 1963, against the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for: (i) a declaration that the plaintiffs ’ product “Ribena” was not...
3 | 1969-03-28
This is a hotly contested a pplication for an order of certiorari in respect of certain steps taken by various bodies in the proceedings concerning the destoolment of Nana Pim Owusu Ansah, one - time Wiamoasehene, in...
2 | 1969-03-21
Pursuant to a Baltime charterparty between the owners of a vessel and time charterers, the vessel was ordered by the charterers to proceed to Duluth, Minnesota, and there load a cargo of grain. It was the duty of the...
Citation pending | 1969-03-21
On 15 June 1967 the Minister gave the a ppellant notice in writing of her determination in respect of his a pplication of 31 January 1967. On 5 October 1967 the Minister furnished a written statement of the grounds of...
22 | 1969-03-16
Charles Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiff -a ppellant (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellant) claimed before the judicial committee of the Kwahu Traditional Council (KTC) at Mpraeso:...
Citation pending | 1969-03-13
A tenant of premises which comprised a shop and living a ccommodation closed the shop but continued to live on the premises with his family and to carry on a Sunday school for one hour each Sunday in the loft or...
35 | 1969-03-12
This was an appeal by Margaret Agbor, the plaintiff, from the refusal of Mars-Jones J on 7 March 1969 to grant ex parte an order that the plaintiff be restored to possession of the ground floor of No 35, Woodstock...
Citation pending | 1969-03-12
DONALDSON J. This action is concerned with three motor cars of which both parties to the action claim to be the owners. When I add that the plaintiff is a hire-purchase company the story is a familiar one, a lthough...
Citation pending | 1969-02-26
This was a Case Stated by the justices of the peace for the West Riding of the county of York a cting in and for the petty sessional division of Saddleworth in respect of their a djudication as a magistrates ’ court...
11294 in favour of | 1969-02-12
This was an action by Alicia Hosiery Ltd the purchasers, against Brown Shipley & Co Ltd the bank, for damages for breach of contract, detinue, or negligent mis-statement. The facts are set out in the judgment.
Citation pending | 1969-02-05
This was an appeal by the plaintiffs, Austin Securities Ltd from an order of Milmo J made on 27 November 1968. The plaintiffs had issued a writ against the defendants, Northgate and English Stores Ltd in February 1966....
Citation pending | 1969-01-31
As to how far members of a company can impose their will on directors in regard to the exercise of powers under a rticles, see 6 Halsbury ’ s Laws (3rd Edn) 298, para 602; and for cases on the subject, see 9 Digest...
21/63. Agyeman for the defendants in suit No. 21/33. Amposah -Dadzie for the plaintiffs in suit No. 10/66. James Mercer for the defendant in suit No. 10/66. | 1969-01-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 In 1958 the first defendant, as the head of the stool family of Ewumaso in the Breman Asikuma Traditional Are a and as the representative of the stool...
[1968] GLR 1150 | 1968-12-23
This action a rose out of the negligent driving of an Austin omnibus No. WR 3646 by the first defendant on the Apowa — Takoradi motor road on or about 9 March 1965. The plaintiff's brother, Mark Kweku Bosumtwe, was...
[1968] GLR 1137 | 1968-12-23
Amissah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This is a tragedy of errors. The real a ppellants in this case are the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd. who shall henceforth be referred to simply as the...
[1968] GLR 1120 | 1968-12-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 defendant a dmits that his family sued the plaintiff for the recovery of the house and the setting a side of the sale, he denies however that he a cted...
5 of 1st November 1956 or is the successor in title of such owner | 1968-12-17
The a ppellants were a British company which owned a mining property in Egypt worth more than £4,000,000. In 1956, after the Israel-Egypt hostilities, the property, together with other properties owned by British...
Citation pending | 1968-12-17
This was an appeal by Mohammed Avais, against the judgment of the Court of Appeal (Lord Denning MR, and Diplock LJ; Lord Upjohn dissenting), dated 13 October 1967, and reported [1967] 3 AllER 987, reversing the...
Citation pending | 1968-12-10
Negligence – Contributory negligence – Appeal – Apportionment of liability – Principle on which a ppellate court will intervene – Apportionment by trial judge not interfered with save for error in principle or where...