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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
[1960] GLR 132 | 1960-05-30
The proceedings in the trial court before Adumua -Bossman, J. from whose decision this appeal was brought were instituted by originating summons pursuant to the provisions of Order 54, rule 4 of the Rules of the High...
[1960] GLR 129 | 1960-05-27
The claim in this case is for injunction and damages for trespass; and the subject matter is an island called Dormellam Kewu, in the River Volta, in the Klepa Division of Osudoku. The plaintiff pleaded that he is owner...
[1960] GLR 126 | 1960-05-27
(His Lordship referred to the issues raised and continued): I observe from the pleadings of both parties that they each rely upon the same root of title, namely the Odoi Kwao family of Osu, that is to say, both parties...
Citation pending | 1960-05-25
Proceedings before the disciplinary committee constituted under s 46 of the Solicitors Act, 1957, are judicial in character, and the proceedings (including the committee ’ s findings and order) have the benefit of the...
Citation pending | 1960-05-19
(i) (per Viscount Simonds, Lord Reid and Lord Radcliffe) the respondent bank having become liable by virtue of Act No 2292 on the guarantee, the proper law of which was English law, could not be discharged, for the...
Citation pending | 1960-05-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 completion of making good defects which shall a ppear within the defects liability period whichever is the later. The evidence shows that the defects...
[1960] GLR 115 | 1960-05-09
By his writ of summons issued on the 29th of January, 1959, the plaintiff claimed against the defendant an order for recovery of possession of a piece of land situate at Link Road, Accra. He pleaded that he obtained a...
Citation pending | 1960-04-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: The British West African Insurance Services Ltd., the a ppellants, sued one Joseph Jacob Abdilmasih...
[1960] GLR 91 | 1960-04-14
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: This is another case in which we have, with regret, to review and comment upon the summing -up and judgment of a judge of Assize sitting with a ssessors. The a...
Citation pending | 1960-04-13
BUCKLEY J read the following judgment. In this action the plaintiff originally claimed, in effect, that she had effectually exercised an option for renewal contained in a lease dated 21 May 1938, of property known as...
Citation pending | 1960-04-13
Education – School – Reverter – Land conveyed for school site in 1840 – Scheme under Endowed Schools Act, 1869, in 1949 – School closed in 1956 – Whether land held on resulting trust for grantor – Schools Sites Act,...
Citation pending | 1960-04-12
This was an appeal by the plaintiffs from an order of Winn J dated 24 April 1959, reported [1959] 2 AllER 370, whereby he dismissed the plaintiffs ’ claim for £404 7s 6d being the amount of commission due under the...
35 of 1957. The section is as follows | 1960-04-11
Granville Sharp, J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court: This is an a pplication by way of motion to the court to restore to the list for hearing an appeal to the Court of Appeal which was on the 11th April, 1960...
Citation pending | 1960-04-05
Practice – Payment into court – Acceptance – Effect – Counterclaim and set-off – Acceptance by plaintiff of sum paid in by defendant as “enough to satisfy plaintiff ’ s claim” – Whether defendant free to pursue...
[1960] GLR 75 | 1960-04-01
Granville Sharp, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. (His lordship stated the facts and continued.) For the purpose of this appeal we regard this minute of the judge in chambers as a decision dismissing the...
[1960] GLR 73 | 1960-03-31
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 plus the profits lost under the charterparty. In his judgment Sir Francis Jeune enunciated the following principle: “The general principle which governs...
[1960] GLR 68 | 1960-03-29
The a ppellant sued in the Manya Krobo Native Court “A”, claiming damages for trespass to, and injunction in respect of, a piece of land measuring one rope and situate at Akatawia in the Manya Krobo State. The...
Citation pending | 1960-03-28
Arbitration – Case stated – Facts found in Special Case – Frustration – Sale of goods – Normal shipping route via Suez – Finding in Case that shipping by route via Cape of Good Hope would not render contract...
[1960] GLR 53 | 1960-03-25
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. (After dealing with the a ppeals of the first and second a ppellants he continued). The sixth a ccused (that is the third a ppellant) was sentenced without any clear...
[1960] GLR 45 | 1960-03-25
Granville Sharp, J.A. read the judgment of the court. (After referring the facts he continued). The a ppellant in evidence began by denying that he was ever at Badu on the day of the incident, or that he was in any way...
[1960] GLR 56 | 1960-03-25
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: On the 26th February, 1960, we dismissed this appeal; we now proceed to give reasons for our judgment. [His Lordship referred to the facts, and continued]: There can...
Citation pending | 1960-03-10
Appeal by Bellshill & Mossend Co-operative Society Ltd against an interlocutor of the First Division of the Court of Session (Lord Clyde (Lord President), Lord Carmont and Lord Russell), dated 13 February 1959,...
Citation pending | 1960-03-09
Appeal by special leave by the Attorney General for the State of South Australia from an order of the Full Court of the High Court of Australia (Sir Owen Dixon CJ McTiernan, Fullagar, Kitto and Taylor JJ), dated 20 May...
[1960] GLR 31 | 1960-03-08
(Who delivered the judgment of the court referred to the facts and continued): It will be observed that the only issue joined between the parties was whether the transaction between the predecessors of the parties was...
[1960] GLR 34 | 1960-03-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 had to the a llegations so clearly set out in paragraph 2 of the reply (a mplifying and explaining the writ of summons), and to the a llegations equally...
[1960] GLR 29 | 1960-02-29
This is an action for £500 damages for slander. The slanderous words which the plaintiff a lleges that the defendant used were "slave and beast." I have no hesitation in a ccepting the evidence of the plaintiff's...
[1960] GLR 23 | 1960-02-26
(His lordship referred to the facts and continued). The matter first came before me on January 12, 1960. In my own experience much depends (in matters such as this) on the relationship of the a lleged offending member...
Citation pending | 1960-02-25
Discovery – Production of documents – Privilege – Production contrary to the public interest – Police officer ’ s diaries – Director of Public Prosecution ’ s memoranda – Right of Attorney General to claim privilege in...
Citation pending | 1960-02-22
The first a ssignee of the lease of certain premises a ppealed against a judgment of McNair J given on 10 December 1958, on the trial of preliminary issues in an action for the recovery of rent and for damages for...
Citation pending | 1960-02-18
Appeal by the ratepayers, Arbuckle Smith & Co Ltd against an interlocutor of the Second Division of the Court of Session (Lord Patrick, Lord Mackintosh, Lord Thomson (Lord Justice-Clerk) and Lord Strachan), pronounced...
Citation pending | 1960-02-17
H joined an employees ’ pension and life a ssurance scheme on its inauguration by his employers, a company, in 1939. The pension scheme was a contributory scheme, but the company paid the whole cost of the life a...
[1960] GLR 4 | 1960-01-18
Van Lare, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court: The plaintiff in this case in effect claims to be indemnified by the defendant company under the terms of the insurance policy by which the defendant company were the...
[1960] GLR 3 | 1960-01-15
Korsah, C.J., delivered the judgment of the court: With reference to the appeal of Armah against sentence, we are unable to understand why he was given a more severe sentence than Kojo Sisala, who was convicted of both...
[1959] GLR 452 | 1959-12-22
(His lordship referred to the pleadings, and continued: —) None of the plaintiffs can succeed in his action unless he is a ble to satisfy the Court, by preponderance of evidence as in all civil cases, that he is a...
57/1959 | 1959-12-21
Granville Sharp J.A. delivered the judgment of the Court: The plaintiffs' claim is for money lent by plaintiffs to defendant at his request, together with interest thereon and a ttendant expenses specified in the...
Citation pending | 1959-12-18
By cl 1 of the a greement the defendants agree to let and the plaintiff a grees to take four offices and one wareroom on the third floor and one wareroom on the second floor. Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of cl 2 are not...
Citation pending | 1959-12-16
Appeal by Sir Edward Betham Beetham KCM. G, CVO, OBE, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, and Bernard Benjamin Gillis QC from an order of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and...
Citation pending | 1959-12-14
Appeal by special leave by Belfast Corporation from an order of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland (Lord MacDermott CJ and Black LJ), dated 26 March 1959, a llowing an appeal by the respondents, OD Cars Ltd from...
[1959] GLR 436 | 1959-12-11
Korsah C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. (After stating the facts his lordship proceeded: -) It will be observed that apart from the statement of the a ppellant to the effect that deceased followed him to his...
[1959] GLR 442 | 1959-12-11
(His lordship stated the facts and proceeded: —) The a ppellant's a llegations were not supported by the evidence, and there are reasons to suppose that they are figments of imagination and insane delusion. There was...
[1959] GLR 434 | 1959-12-04
of insanity. The case for the prosecution was pointedly put by learned Counsel to the a ppellant in a question as follows: -“You were a nnoyed because your mother did not provide you with the money you a sked for?" In...
3J of 1953 | 1959-12-02
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others." In October 1983 the first and second plaintiffs and others withdrew their membership of the...
Citation pending | 1959-12-01
Appeal by Aberfoyle Plantations Ltd from an order of the Court of Appeal of Malaya (Thomson CJ Sir John Whyatt CJ (Singapore), and Barakbah J), dated 2 June 1958, reversing an order of the High Court of the Federation...
1 has been complied with. | 1959-12-01
a voided; and claiming a lternatively, if the stipulation in para 1 of the special conditions were a covenant and not a condition, a declaration of forfeiture of the lease under s 83b of the Crown Lands Ordinance,...
[1959] GLR 410 | 1959-11-26
(His lordship set forth the history of the proceedings, and continued: —) I shall deal firstly with the issue whether or not there has been a valid a rbitration upon the dispute between the plaintiff and the Caesar...
[1959] GLR 390 | 1959-11-23
Van Lare J. A. delivered the judgment of the Court: This is a judgment of the Court in the preparation of which we all participated. The proceedings in this case commenced with an a pplication filed by the plaintiff in...
It must | 1959-11-20
Though an indefinite bequest of income to an individual shows, as a matter of interpretation and in the absence of words indicating the contrary, an intention that the donee shall be entitled to call for the capital,...
[1959] GLR 387 | 1959-11-20
(His lordship reviewed the history of the matter, and continued: — The Native Court gave judgment on the 11th March, 1958, in the first action (Atakpla v. Kano) in the following terms: — "In this case Atakpla sued Kano...
[1959] GLR 383 | 1959-11-20
This appeal was the third case of its kind to come before this Court within a period of two weeks. In each case the record disclosed a failure on the part of a Commissioner of Assize sitting with the aid of a ssessors...
[1959] GLR 377 | 1959-11-17
joint effort of a man and his wife and/or children, and any property which the man a cquires with such proceeds, are by customary law the individual property of the man. It is not the joint property of the man and the...