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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1965-06-24
The a ppellant was the proprietor of a club known as the Postal Bingo Club whose principal a ctivity was the playing of postal bingo each week. There were about 300,000 members of the club. An a pplicant for...
Citation pending | 1965-06-16
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of Buckley J dated 1 February 1965, dismissing the plaintiff ’ s action commenced by writ issued on 16 July 1964, against the first defendant who was at all material...
Citation pending | 1965-06-15
Per Curiam: all legal proceedings a ffecting status, not least those a ffecting legitimacy, should be the subject-matter of open and public trial; the fact that a court, when dealing with infants in a parental or a...
[1966] GLR 442 | 1965-05-07
The plaintiffs' claim is for a declaration of title to land, recovery of possession, and perpetual injunction. The action was taken against seven defendants. In their statement of claim, the plaintiffs a verred that...
[1966] GLR 572 | 1965-04-20
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. gave the reasons for the judgment of the court. [His lordship stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] In a rguing the appeal before us, each a ppellant, who had not the benefit of...
Citation pending | 1965-04-14
Contractors to do work on the exterior of a factory building sub-contracted part of the work, including the re-painting of the roof members and trusses. The re-painting had to be done from scaffolding, and the...
Citation pending | 1965-04-08
Income Tax – Foreign possessions – Income a rising from possessions out of the United Kingdom – Capital or income – Will of testatrix domiciled in the United States – Beneficiary in England entitled to a nnual...
I thought that we had good | 1965-04-02
The plaintiffs, who were a limited company whose principal a ctivity was brewing, owned a fleet of ships for the a ncillary purpose of transporting their wares. The ships were controlled by the plaintiffs ’ traffic...
3052 | 1965-03-25
Coast protection works were needed to protect a strip of land a long the sea shore from erosion. The land a long the sea shore had been developed, houses having been built whose gardens ran down to the shore. The strip...
Citation pending | 1965-03-10
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Social insurance contributions – Ship registered under Italian flag sold in England and proceeds of sale in Admiralty court – Interveners as mortgagees obtained judgment in...
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
Citation pending | 1965-01-22
In 1905, the deceased married his first wife; there was no child of the marriage until, in 1921, twins were born, of whom the defendant was one. The deceased a lways refused to acknowledge the defendant as his child....
Citation pending | 1965-01-20
Highway – Street – Private street works – Resolution of local authority to execute street works – Discharge of onus of proof on local authority that the road is a private street – Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will 4 c 50),...
Citation pending | 1965-01-19
The commissioners held that the test of charge and care was satisfied for the year 1957 – 58, towards the end of which the younger child began to go to school, and that it was not a condition of an a llowance being...
[1964] GLR 715 | 1964-12-28
This is an appeal wherein the a ppellant who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing before the District Court, Accra, on 25 November 1964, and was duly convicted and sentenced to a fine of £G25 or three months'...
[1964] GLR 712 | 1964-12-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 relative in one of his children's room. When he protested to the respondent she thereupon raised a stool above his head and said "I will kill you."...
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
The defendant insurer, Dudley Franklin Hepburn, a Lloyd ’ s underwriter, a ppealed against the judgment of Roskill J dated 29 April 1964, for £136 5s 10d with interest and costs in favour of the plaintiff carriers, A...
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
Held – (i) where, as in the present case, there was direct evidence by the execution of a deed of mutual covenant that the vendor and the purchasers from him intended a building scheme, the court was not precluded from...
[1964] GLR 695 | 1964-12-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 defendants are farmers and made cocoa farms on various portions of the land at varying periods. The defendants do not all derive their title from one...
[1964] GLR 681 | 1964-12-18
Mills Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellants were convicted by Apaloo J. (as he then was), sitting with a ssessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court at Kumasi on 12 December 1963, for...
[1964] GLR 671 | 1964-12-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (d) That the plaintiff and those on whose behalf the plaintiff instituted this action are not the lawful children of the late L. T. C. Davies. (e) That...
Citation pending | 1964-12-15
In 1933 the respondent husband, who at all material times was domiciled and resident in Ceylon, married W., the marriage being a Christian marriage. In 1957 W left the respondent. In 1959 the respondent and P were...
[1964] GLR 663 | 1964-12-15
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against the conviction of the a ppellant by the High Court, Ho, for rape. The trial was conducted with a ssessors. Most of the facts in the case are...
Citation pending | 1964-12-11
Pursuant to leave granted by the court, the a pplicants, Nana Kwabena Buadee and Nana Kwamina Faibill III, a sked for an order of prohibition directed to the judicial committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs...
Citation pending | 1964-12-09
This was an action by the plaintiff, Michael Beiscak, against the defendants, the National Coal Board, for damages for personal injuries which he suffered on 7 November 1959, as a result of a fall of a portion of the...
[1964] GLR 661 | 1964-12-09
This is an a pplication by the defendants herein praying this court, (a) to stay these proceedings for a period of one month until [p.662] previous costs a warded against the plaintiff in a similar action in favour of...
Citation pending | 1964-12-04
On 11 December 1964 the respondent was a ppointed a grade 1 class 1 teacher at a government school in British Guiana at a salary of $251 a month. Having failed to comply with requests to send her birth and a cademic...
[1964] GLR 656 | 1964-12-04
OF MILLS – ODOI J.S.C. Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted for the murder of his wife, Ekua Ntabeley, at the village of Aiyim in the Western Region, on 24 September...
[1964] GLR 653 | 1964-12-04
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was found guilty by a jury of the murder of his wife one Amma Dagarti; he was a ccordingly convicted, and the only sentence a llowed by law was passed...
Citation pending | 1964-12-01
Two power-driven vessels, the Auspicity and the Dayspring, were a pproaching each other off the Point of Ayre in the Isle of Man on courses which at first involved no risk of collision. The Dayspring a ltered course to...
[1964] GLR 643 | 1964-11-27
This is an appeal from the decision of the Local Court of Sefwi -Wiawso which was delivered on 20 March 1964. The facts of the case are simple. The plaintiff is the chief of Enwhia, representing the stool of Enwhia and...
[1964] GLR 649 | 1964-11-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 there is no possible ground for supposing that the corporation will authorise their driver who would in turn authorise an unlicensed person to drive the...
Citation pending | 1964-11-26
The commissioners found that the ledger account was drawn up on the basis that the taxpayer company made a nnual payments out of capital receipts, and, in the circumstances of the case and in the absence of evidence to...
[1964] GLR 637 | 1964-11-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 been in his possession. Secondly, he a dmits that he did not deposit these a mounts. And as was said before, his brother was not even called to say if...
[1964] GLR 616 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the conviction of the a ppellant for murder by the High Court, Tamale. The unfortunate incident resulted from an a ltercation between the...
[1964] GLR 612 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant gave evidence for the prosecution on 21 November 1963, in a case entitled State v. Fynn and Another,1 (hereinafter referred to as the substantive...
[1964] GLR 598 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 10 November 1964 we a llowed the appeal in this case, quashed the conviction and the sentence passed upon the a ppellant, and a cquitted and discharged him. The...
[1964] GLR 602 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 13 October 1964, we a llowed the appeal in this case and reserved our reasons for so doing; the following are the reasons for our decision. The a ppellant was...
[1964] GLR 622 | 1964-11-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (c) Whether or not the defendant has any claim or any right at all over properties bought by him, to the plaintiff during their stay together. (d)...
Citation pending | 1964-11-16
Divorce – Estoppel – Paternity of child – Order in divorce suit for custody of child – Child subsequently petitioning for declaration of legitimacy – Husband in divorce suit denying paternity – Order for custody not a...
Citation pending | 1964-11-13
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial home – Discretion of court – Wife sole owner – Improvements by husband – Wife leaving husband and petitioning for divorce on grounds of cruelty – Husband seeking restitution of...
[1964] GLR 593 | 1964-11-10
Lassey J. [stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] With respect to the liability of the respondents to the a ppellant the evidence led at the trial was that after the settlement of the dispute...
[1964] GLR 569 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was tried for, and convicted of the offence of manslaughter by the High Court, Cape Coast, sitting with a jury. When the appeal came up for hearing on...
[1964] GLR 573 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against conviction of the a ppellant for murder upon a verdict of a jury. It raised some very important points of law. These have been forcefully a...
[1964] GLR 551 | 1964-11-06
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was charged with the murder of one Salifu Dagarti and was convicted of this crime on 7 April 1964, at the Criminal Session of the High Court,...
[1964] GLR 580 | 1964-11-06
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was tried by Sowah J. sitting with a ssessors. The indictment charged him with three counts, namely (1) forgery, (2) uttering a forged document and (3)...
[1964] GLR 558 | 1964-11-06
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Djabanor J. sitting with a ssessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court, Kumasi, delivered on 28 June 1963. The a...
[1964] GLR 588 | 1964-11-06
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Siriboe J. (as he then was) sitting in the High Court, Ho, and dismissing an appeal from the convictions by the district...
[1964] GLR 548 | 1964-11-04
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The respondent disputed the a verment in the petition and herself cross -petitioned for the dissolution of the marriage on the grounds of cruelty and a...