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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
[1964] GLR 546 | 1964-10-29
The a ppellant was charged with stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code, 19601, and was convicted by the District Magistrate, Accra on 21 August 1964 and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard...
[1964] GLR 538 | 1964-10-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 [p.541] The respondent in her cross -petition and in her evidence denied that she was a woman of uncontrollable temper. She maintained that it was...
[1964] GLR 531 | 1964-10-14
The plaintiff by his writ of summons issued on 9 December 1960 claims an order of this court declaring his title to a house at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Are a, an order for recovery of possession of the...
[1964] GLR 527 | 1964-10-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff's claim is for damages for breach of promise of marriage. In her statement of claim she a verred as follows: "(2) On a date in 1951 the...
[1964] GLR 521 | 1964-09-28
On 10 August 1964 I dismissed an a pplication by the judgment -debtor in this case for a review of decision of 13 July 1964 disallowing the judgment -debtor's a pplication for stay of execution. The a pplication for...
[1964] GLR 513 | 1964-08-27
The plaintiffs claim from the defendants recovery of possession of all those ground floor stores situated at the corner of Club Road and Cow Lane, Accra; and also claim double rent under section 18 of the Distress for...
[1964] GLR 510 | 1964-08-14
This is an a pplication by the defendant for further and better particulars under Order 19, rule 7 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954.1 It seems strange that a lthough Order 19, r. 8 provides...
Citation pending | 1964-07-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 hence textbook writers and judges a ware of this impossibility, have consistently refrained from placing any precise meaning on the word in view of the...
Citation pending | 1964-07-22
Section 240 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1954, empowered the corporation of Lower Hutt in New Zealand to construct waterworks for the supply of “pure water” for the inhabitants of the district. Under the Act the...
Citation pending | 1964-07-13
The defendant a rchitects, the firm of Stevens Scanlan & Co pleaded the Limitation Act, 1939, in their defence to an action for negligence brought against them by Oliver Robin Bagot, who had employed them to supervise...
[1964] GLR 452 | 1964-06-30
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was charred before the District Court, Kumasi, jointly with one Kwame Dapaa, with two counts of stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code,...
[1964] GLR 468 | 1964-06-30
This is a motion supported by an a ffidavit brought under Order 70, rr. 1 and 2 of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 19541 on behalf of the plaintiff in the above -named suit, a sking this court for an...
[1964] GLR 475 | 1964-06-30
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by the Circuit Court, Kumasi, of the offence of fraud by false pretences, contrary to section 131 of the Criminal Code, 1960.1 He was...
[1966] GLR 151 | 1964-06-30
This is an a pplication under rule 33 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1962,1 for a review of a judgment of this court delivered on 30 June 1964 (unreported). Rule 33 provides as follows: "The Court shall not review any...
[1964] GLR 458 | 1964-06-30
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, delivered by Apaloo J. (as he then was) on 27 May 1963, a llowing the respondent's claim for...
C 44/2 | 1964-06-29
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, Akainyah J. (as he then was) delivered on 9 July 1963. That judgment, a warded in favour of the plaintiff (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) sums...
[1964] GLR 437 | 1964-06-29
On the basis of an oral a greement, the a ppellant performed managerial duties for the respondents as their representative in Kumasi. Upon being summarily dismissed he brought an action in the High Court, Kumasi, in...
[1964] GLR 443 | 1964-06-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi (Djabanor J.)1 delivered on 10 January 1962. That judgment reversed the decision of the...
[1964] GLR 423 | 1964-06-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of Bruce - Lyle J. delivered at Sunyani on 24 January 1963 which reversed a judgment of the Brong/Ahafo Central Local Court Division...
Citation pending | 1964-06-25
The upper floors of the premises, a large terrace house going to seed, were let off in single room a partments, though not structurally converted for the purpose. Each occupant had a right of exclusive occupation of...
Citation pending | 1964-06-23
Declaration – Jurisdiction – Hypothetical question – Dividend stripping operation – Question how, a ssuming that taxpayer company was a dealer in securities, its a ccounts should be made up – Decision of House of Lords...
[1964] GLR 410 | 1964-06-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Adumua -Bossman J. (as he then was), given in the High Court, Accra, on 26 June 1961, which reversed a decision of the Accra...
[1964] GLR 399 | 1964-06-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant, hereinafter called the plaintiff, father of one Herman Wilhelm Hesse, Jnr., deceased, sued on behalf of himself and other dependants of his said...
[1964] GLR 381 | 1964-06-22
This appeal is in respect of a piece or parcel of land known and called Amanta. The respondent as the plaintiff in this case by his statement of claim pleaded thus: [His lordship here read the statement of claim, the...
[1964] GLR 405 | 1964-06-22
This is an appeal from a judgment of Bannerman J. delivered at Kumasi on 23 February 1963, in favour of the plaintiff -respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff. The proceedings began with a claim for...
Citation pending | 1964-06-17
to schedule and the traffic department knew that he was a ddicted to speed and inclined to take risks to keep to schedule; further, the transgressions of some masters of ships fitted with radar by proceeding at...
[1964] GLR 1 | 1964-06-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 and was a llowed to drive the plaintiff in plaintiff's own car to Tamale under a police escort who was also lodged in the car. Upon a rrival in Tamale...
[1964] GLR 377 | 1964-06-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff on 9 January 1963 filled in a proposal form for the insurance of his goods in his wholesale warehouse on plot 7, South Zongo, Kumasi. The...
[1964] GLR 365 | 1964-05-25
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The respondent, commenced these proceedings at Kumasi, in the Land Division of the then Supreme Court, claiming (i) an order to set a side the sale of a farm made...
[1964] GLR 361 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 1 May 1964, we a llowed the appeal of the a ppellant against his conviction, quashed his conviction and the sentences passed upon him, and ordered him to be a...
[1964] GLR 354 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a revision order made by Sarkodee -Adoo C.J., on 27 February 1964, under section 60 of the Courts Act, 1960.1 The a ppellant was charged before...
[1964] GLR 344 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a ppellant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of a ssault under section 84 of the Criminal Code, 1960,1 and...
[1964] GLR 332 | 1964-05-18
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The material facts of this case are not in dispute and can be stated briefly. Some time in 1956, the respondent and Edward Ramia entered into a partnership for the...
[1964] GLR 322 | 1964-05-18
This is an appeal from the judgment of Acolatse J., as he then was, dated 10 December 1962, in an interpleader suit in which certain moveable properties were seized in execution by the deputy sheriff 's officer for...
Citation pending | 1964-05-15
Rule 4(1)(o)a of the Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, which was a dded by SI 1963 No 1990, is not ultra vires, being within the general rule-making power contained in s 99(1)(a) of the Supreme Court of Judicature...
[1964] GLR 317 | 1964-05-14
The main points a rgued in this appeal are points of law. Counsel however submitted that in the case of the third a ppellant there was no evidence upon which she could be found liable for uttering the slanderous words...
[1964] GLR 299 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. In or about 1958 the a ppellant raised a loan from the second respondent, £G60 being the a ggregate amount to be repaid. No details or particulars were given as to...
[1964] GLR 288 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from an order for certiorari, made by the High Court, Kumasi, quashing a writ of fi. fa. issued by the Local Court, Teppa, and declaring null and...
[1964] GLR 311 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. These proceedings commenced with a petition under sections 91, 89 (4) and (5) and 90 (2) and (3) of the Companies Ordinance,1 brought for and on behalf of Messrs....
[1964] GLR 3 | 1964-05-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The plaintiff's evidence is that she knew nothing about the existence of any mortgage on this house (to Ollivant) and that it was when she went to the...
Citation pending | 1964-05-04
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The facts of the case are, in the main, not in dispute and can be stated briefly. The a ppellants (who I shall hereafter call the plaintiffs) are the customary...
[1964] GLR 256 | 1964-05-01
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. We a llowed the appeal in this case on 3 April 1964 after hearing the submissions of counsel, and now proceed to give our reasons. The a ppellant was convicted by the...
[1964] GLR 267 | 1964-05-01
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a ppellant -a pplicant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of a ssault under section 84 of the Criminal Code,...
[1964] GLR 262 | 1964-05-01
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. Both a ppellants were on 19 March 1963 convicted before the circuit court of stealing and the first a ppellant a lone was convicted on eleven counts of falsification...
[1964] GLR 253 | 1964-04-21
The plaintiff, trading under the name and style of Jimoh Aremu and Brothers, sued the defendants for: (1) an injunction to restrain the defendants, their a gents and servants from infringing the plaintiff's said trade...
[1964] GLR 248 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 negligent driving of the said driver Yaw Appiah, and that Sussana Adu died as a result of the injuries she suffered from the a ccident. The defendants...
[1964] GLR 242 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 Then the bottles go to the brush section of the washing machine. A brush is introduced into the bottles and washed out and sprayed with water. Then the...
[1964] GLR 239 | 1964-04-03
This small appeal has brought into focus the difficult question of the punishment or sentence of co -defendants; the fact that co -defendants [p.240] have been punished at the same time draws a ttention to any...
[1964] GLR 234 | 1964-03-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 On or about the 29 June 1961, the plaintiff was involved in a motor a ccident while travelling in vehicle No. AN. 293 driven by one Kofi Fofie. The a...
Citation pending | 1964-03-17
This was an action by the plaintiff, Alexander Baxter, against his employers, the first defendants, Central Electricity Generating Board, and the second defendants, International Combustion Co Ltd for damages for...