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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
[1966] GLR 754 | 1966-11-21
On 17 November 1966 this court gave leave to the plaintiff to a mend her writ of summons and statement of claim which were filed together. I now set out to give my reasons for a llowing the a mendments. The plaintiff's...
[1966] GLR 751 | 1966-11-17
The plaintiffs have instituted an action for damages in conversion against the defendants herein and a preliminary point a rose for a rgument as to whether the claim was maintainable. Counsel for the second and third...
Citation pending | 1966-11-14
This was an appeal by the plaintiffs, Askinex Ltd from a decision of His Honour Judge Block given at the Mayor ’ s and City of London Court on 5 April 1966, that judgment should be entered for the defendants, that the...
[1966] GLR 732 | 1966-11-11
By his will of 16 September 1964 the testator Philip Melanchton Kwadwo Tufuor devised the realty comprised in his residuary estate as follows: "I give unto and to Abena Kwabena my sister and Kwame Poku my grandson...
[1966] GLR 697 | 1966-11-04
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant in this case was charged before the District Magistrate's Court, Accra New Town, with the offence of fraud by false pretence contrary to section 131...
Citation pending | 1966-11-04
This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Accra, refusing to grant an a pplication for a writ of habeas corpus made by the a ppellant Dr. Horst Schumann, a German national resident in Ghana and who was on...
Citation pending | 1966-11-02
Will – Contingent interest – Share of residue to be divided, after life interests, among such of named charities as were in existence as independent charities – Three named charities became subject to National Health...
[1966] GLR 765 | 1966-10-31
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the reasons for the opinion of the court. On 31 October 1966, this court gave a negative answer to the question of law reserved for the opinion of this court by the learned judge of the High...
Citation pending | 1966-10-24
The defendant, whose offer of a plea of guilty to receiving £6,200, part of the proceeds of a robbery of the plaintiff bank of £52,250, was not a ccepted, was convicted of the robbery and was sentenced. His appeal was...
[1966] GLR 678 | 1966-10-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The a pplicants, Royal Exchange Assurance, were served with third party notice at the request of the defendant who has been sued by the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1966-10-06
The husband and wife married in 1928, and in 1929 a son was born to them. In 1936 the husband and wife separated. In 1946 a decree absolute of divorce was obtained by the wife, no prayer for a ncillary relief having...
Citation pending | 1966-08-12
Extradition – Discharge of fugitive – Discretion – Whether unconditional undertakings by foreign government as to the trial of the fugitive should be a ccepted by the English court – Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (44 &...
Citation pending | 1966-07-20
The first taxpayer a ppealed to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax against the following a ssessments to surtax: 1954 – 55 (a dditional) £1,577; 1955 – 56 £6,500; 1956 – 57 (a dditional) £11,846; 1957 – 58 (a...
Citation pending | 1966-07-05
Estate Duty – Exemption and remission – Purchase – Property passing by reason of purchase – Annuity bequeathed to wife on condition that she devised one moiety of fund to which she was entitled at time of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1966-06-30
This was a petition by the husband for dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife ’ s desertion, the husband a sking for the discretion of the court in respect of his own a dultery. The wife by her answer denied...
[1966] GLR 649 | 1966-06-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 said document. The plaintiff's case is that the transaction was strictly business, and that no sentimental considerations influenced the conduct of the...
[1966] GLR 560 | 1966-06-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 In passing it is necessary to point out that what the witness called a caterpillar was in fact a 24 foot long grader. This is the whole of the evidence...
Citation pending | 1966-05-10
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of Paull J dated 2 December 1965, dismissing his action against the defendants for damages for personal injuries sustained in the course of his employment with the...
Citation pending | 1966-05-09
A girl a ged eight, was injured in a motor a ccident. From the time of her being injured until her death nearly a year later she was unconscious and without pain and without a ppreciation of what had happened to her....
[1966] GLR 575 | 1966-05-06
Sarkodee -Adoo C.J. delivered the reasons for the judgment of the court. We dismissed this appeal on 6 May 1966 indicating that we would give our reasons later, and a ccordingly we now give the reasons. The appeal is...
Citation pending | 1966-04-01
The court expressly refrained from expressing any opinion on the “interesting, important and difficult question” which would arise if the contract were ultra vires, viz, whether the plaintiff company having fully...
Citation pending | 1966-03-16
The plaintiff ’ s cause of action in negligence against his employers for a disease contracted during his employment a ccrued (if at all) not later than January, 1962, when he left their employment. The last meeting...
Citation pending | 1966-03-04
On a ssignment of an underlease the a ssignee, S, covenanted to observe the tenant ’ s covenants in the underlease, which included a covenant not to assign or underlet without the reversioner ’ s consent. The...
6033 and portrayed it as a speech by Dr. K.A. Busia | 1966-02-24
This case commenced with a motion on notice filed by the Attorney -General on 10 November 1994 a sking the court for an order: "(i) of committal or a ttachment of the first and second respondents and to commit them to...
Citation pending | 1966-02-23
This was an appeal by way of case stated from a decision of the justices for the county borough of Northampton who, on 8 October 1965, convicted the respondent, Derek Frederick Cole, of driving a motor vehicle on a...
Citation pending | 1966-02-17
Held – It was an invariable condition of relief from forfeiture for non-payment of rent that the a rrears, if not already a vailable to the lessor, should be paid within a time specified by the court and it followed...
[1966] GLR 145 | 1966-02-11
This is an appeal from the judgment of the learned circuit judge dismissing the claim of the plaintiff in respect of a debt of £G250 owed to him on the grounds that, "I find that the plaintiff has failed to prove by a...
Citation pending | 1966-02-02
This was an appeal by the husband, Hugon Erdman Becker, from a judgment of His Honour Judge Ingress Bell QC sitting as a special commissioner in divorce at Preston, dismissing the husband ’ s petition for divorce,...
Citation pending | 1965-12-20
Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind, a voluntary organisation within the meaning of s 30 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, occupied for welfare purposes under s 29 a hereditament comprising (i) a large...
Citation pending | 1965-12-20
Marriage – Polygamous – Potentially polygamous – Acquisition of domicil of choice in England – Jurisdiction of English courts over a lleged matrimonial offences – Whether marriage converted into monogamous union.
Citation pending | 1965-12-15
The taxpayer a ppealed to the General Commissioners of Income Tax for the Wallington Division of Surrey against a ssessments made on him under Case V of Sch D to the Income Tax Act, 1952, for the three years 1958 – 59,...
Citation pending | 1965-12-15
N Ltd made a nnual payments in the years of a ssessment 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59 and 1959 – 60 to A Ltd under a deed of covenant, dated 12 July 1957, entered into by N Ltd with A Ltd at a time when A Ltd was a wholly owned...
[1966] GLR 244 | 1965-12-07
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. In this a pplication the court is invited to review its order of 7 December 1965, dismissing an appeal on the ground that the a lleged appeal was not properly before it...
Citation pending | 1965-11-23
Estate Agent – Commisson – Agreement to pay commission on introduction of a person “prepared to enter into a contract to purchase” – Introduction of person willing to sign contract if he could sell his own property and...
Citation pending | 1965-11-18
ORMROD J. The matter is not now contested before me, because as a result of evidence which came to light in July, 1965, the petitioner recognises that he cannot now continue to petition for a declaration that he is the...
Citation pending | 1965-11-12
LAWRENCE J read the following judgment in which he stated the nature of the a pplication and continued: The property the subject of the compulsory purchase order is a four-storey block of forty-eight separate tenement...
[1966] GLR 447 | 1965-11-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 issue for the determination of the court involved the law of inheritance in the Kpeve are a of the Volta Region. Her ladyship reviewed the evidence in...
Citation pending | 1965-11-04
deposed that he had more than once made his way on foot a long the entire length of the foreshore in question. With rather more difficulty one could make one ’ s way down or up one or more of the gullies with a...
Citation pending | 1965-10-22
This was an appeal by Jarvis Joseph Astaire, a company director and boxing manager, the plaintiff in this libel action, from the decision of Thompson J dated 29 July 1965, on a summons in chambers a djourned into open...
Citation pending | 1965-09-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 2. H.C 9.9.68 FOLI VII and 7 Others v. THE REPUBLIC (Kingsley - Nyinah J., Ho) Cap. 80 and section was that it was an established and long -standing...
Citation pending | 1965-07-27
This was an appeal by special leave from an order of the Full Court of the High Court of Australia (McTiernan, Windeyer and Owen JJ; Dixon CJ and Kitto J dissenting, dated 25 February 1964, dismissing the a ppellant ’...
Citation pending | 1965-07-26
The landlord carried on the business of a café and restaurant at premises from 5 January 1960. In March, 1960, he a cquired by a ssignment the leasehold interest in the property and on 7 April 1961, he was granted by...
Citation pending | 1965-07-23
Magistrates – Husband and wife – Corroboration – Need for corroboration – When corroboration necessary before finding matrimonial offence proved – When a ppellate court will interfere in the absence of corroboration.
Citation pending | 1965-07-22
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial Home – Discretion of court – Conveyance to spouses jointly – Trust for sale and proceeds of sale etc for grantees as joint tenants – Property purchased out of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1965-07-14
A dangerous nip in a machine in the defendants ’ factory was not fenced; there was this a breach by them of the Factories Act, 1961, s 14(1)a. A finger of one of their employees in the factory, a boy of fifteen, was...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
In Evans v Evans ([1965] 2 AllER 789) which was first reported in the All England Law Reports the day after the hearing and judgment in this case, Cairns J held that complete refusal of sexual intercourse by a wife...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
Magistrates – Husband and wife – Maintenance – Amount – General principle – Whether regard to be had to national a ssistance – National Assistance Act 1948(11 & 12 Geo 6 c 29), s 43 – Matrimonial Proceedings...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
The plaintiffs, BH Ltd were incorporated as a private company in 1953, and their principal business was that of developers of housing estates on land a cquired by other private companies formed by the plaintiff company...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Customs duty – Court order that ship be a ppraised and sold – Claim by Commissioners of Customs and Excise for payment of import duty on ship – Condition on temporary...
Citation pending | 1965-07-02
This was an appeal by the Minister of Housing and Local Government from an order of Mocatta J dated 24 May 1965. The a pplicants, Ashbridge Investments, Ltd by originating motion under RSC, Ord 119, r 71, a pplied for...