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Case Law
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[2022] GHACA 166 | 2022-01-07
This judgment concerns an appeal by two companies against a High Court decision that denied their request for an extension of time to file a motion enforcing their fundamental human rights. The companies sought to sue...
[2021] GHASC 197 | 2021-12-08
This Supreme Court judgment hears an appeal where the defendant disputes lower court rulings that granted the plaintiff full ownership and possession of land. The defendant argues that the plaintiff's seller only had...
[2021] GHASC 202 | 2021-12-08
The Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's dismissal of an appeal concerning land title, finding that the appeal was filed out of time. However, the Court clarified that a person not originally party to a case can...
[2021] GHASC 123 | 2021-12-08
This document outlines an appeal before the Supreme Court regarding a land dispute where a defendant challenges lower court decisions granting the plaintiff ownership and possession. The defendant argues that the...
[2021] GHASC 129 | 2021-12-08
The Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of an appeal as being out of time, but corrected a legal error made by the lower court. The Court clarified that a person not originally a party to a case can still appeal a...
[2021] GHASC 97 | 2021-12-08
This court judgment outlines a civil appeal concerning a land ownership dispute between Adwoa Bokor (Plaintiff) and Madam Agbo Oddoye (Defendant). The Plaintiff claims ownership of 28.76 acres of land through ancestral...
[2021] GHASC 191 | 2021-12-08
This Supreme Court judgment concerns a land dispute where the Plaintiff claims ancestral ownership of 28.76 acres near Nsawam, alleging the Defendant's family were tenant farmers. The Defendant, conversely, claims she...
[2021] GHASC 117 | 2021-12-08
This Supreme Court judgment concerns a civil appeal regarding a land ownership dispute between Adwoa Bokor (Plaintiff) and Madam Agbo Oddoye (Defendant). The Plaintiff claims ownership of a 28.76-acre parcel of land...
[2021] GHASC 121 | 2021-12-08
This document outlines an appeal to the Supreme Court by Francis Arthur against his conviction and 10-year sentence for stealing from Ecobank, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal. Arthur, a former customer service...
[2021] GHASC 100 | 2021-12-08
Francis Arthur appealed to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction and 10-year sentence for stealing over GHS 1.3 million from his employer. The Court of Appeal had previously overturned a...
[2021] ACHPR 519 | 2021-12-03
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
This ruling concerns an application by Laurent Munyandilikirwa, a Rwandan human rights lawyer, against the Republic of Rwanda. Munyandilikirwa alleges he was unlawfully removed from his leadership role in a human...
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
Mohamed Selemani Marwa, a Tanzanian national, filed an application against the United Republic of Tanzania challenging his conviction and 30-year prison sentence for armed robbery. He alleged violations of his rights...
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered a judgment on reparations, ordering the United Republic of Tanzania to provide compensation to Thobias Mang’ara Mango and Shukurani Masegenya Mango. The Court...
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
This is a ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights regarding an application filed by Layford Makene against the United Republic of Tanzania. The Court addressed preliminary objections raised by Tanzania...
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
This ruling addresses an application by Glory C. Hossou and Landry A. Adelakoun challenging the Republic of Benin's withdrawal of a declaration that allowed individuals to bring cases before the African Court on Human...
Citation pending | 2021-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued a judgment in the case of Anudo Ochieng Anudo v. United Republic of Tanzania, detailing the monetary and other forms of compensation the State must pay as...
[2021] GHASC 185 | 2021-11-30
This document details the background of a legal dispute between estate executors and an individual concerning property. The parties previously reached an out-of-court settlement, resulting in a consent judgment that...
[2021] GHACA 49 | 2021-11-25
Elite Minerals Ghana Ltd sued Mantrac Ghana Ltd, alleging that Mantrac breached their agreement by supplying defective CAT excavator machinery that was unfit for its intended purpose. Elite Minerals claimed this breach...
[2021] GHACA 47 | 2021-11-25
[2021] GHACA 48 | 2021-11-25
An employee challenged his termination from the Minerals Commission, claiming the dismissal for unsatisfactory conduct was unfair due to a lack of proper disciplinary procedures. The Labour Commission found that the...
[2021] GHASC 96 | 2021-11-24
This judgment aims to definitively resolve a recurring dispute between two factions of the Saviour Church of Ghana over which group is the rightful successor to the original church. Previous High Court and Court of...
[2021] GHASC 186 | 2021-11-24
This Supreme Court judgment concerns a long-running dispute between two factions of the Saviour Church of Ghana over which is the rightful successor to the original church. Previous lower court judgments determined...
Citation pending | 2021-11-22
This is a ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights concerning provisional measures requested by Houngue Éric Noudehouenou against the Republic of Benin. Noudehouenou asked the Court to stop the...
Citation pending | 2021-11-22
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued a ruling on provisional measures in the case of Houngue Eric Noudehouenou against the Republic of Benin. The applicant sought renewed protective orders, claiming...
[2021] GHACA 11 | 2021-11-04
[2021] GHACA 53 | 2021-10-28
This judgment concerns a land dispute where Jeleel Company Ghana Ltd sued Zion Energy Ltd for a declaration of title, recovery of possession, and an injunction over a parcel of land. The High Court granted an...
[2021] GHACA 51 | 2021-10-28
This is a civil appeal initiated by the defendants, an architectural consulting firm, challenging a High Court judgment that found them liable to the plaintiff, a structural engineer. The plaintiff sued for wrongful...
[2021] GHACA 50 | 2021-10-28
Albert Adaare, a lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, sued the Attorney-General and other defendants, seeking an order to be paid the same salary as a circuit court judge and all associated arrears since January 2009....
[2021] GHACA 52 | 2021-10-28
This document details the complex procedural history of a dispute over the estate of Robert Habib Hitti, who died in 2001. The case arose when a will emerged years after the estate was initially administered without...
[2021] ECOWASCJ 18 | 2021-10-27
This judgment from the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice addresses a dispute between Komlan Raymond Koudo and the ECOWAS Parliament. Koudo alleged that the Parliament failed to pay him three months' salary and other...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/38/21 | 2021-10-27
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice heard a case brought by Kenneth Roberts and four others against the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The applicants alleged that the high cost of nomination forms for political office...
ECWICCJIJUD/37/21 | 2021-10-27
This judgment concerns an application by Daniel Makolo Esq. against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, alleging a violation of his right to a fair hearing due to the Nigerian Court of Appeal's failure to hear and...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/36/2021 | 2021-10-26
This judgment from the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice addresses the Federal Republic of Nigeria's request to annul parts of a previous court decision. The previous decision had ordered Nigeria to pay 10 million...
[2021] GHASC 204 | 2021-10-26
This judgment concerns an application to review a previous Supreme Court decision regarding a criminal trial. The original Supreme Court case involved a challenge by Stephen Kwabena Opuni against a High Court judge,...
[2021] GHASC 187 | 2021-10-26
This court judgment outlines the background to an application seeking a review of a Supreme Court decision. The original application challenged a High Court judge's rulings in a criminal trial, particularly the...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/36/2021 | 2021-10-26
This judgment concerns the Federal Republic of Nigeria's request to annul parts of a previous ECOWAS Court ruling. The previous ruling had ordered Nigeria to pay reparations of 10,000,000 Naira to two applicants, which...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/33/21 | 2021-10-21
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice heard a case brought by Lawrence H. Jothan and 13 others against the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The applicants alleged that Nigeria violated their human rights by failing to...
[2021] ACHPR 522 | 2021-10-20
Gabriel Shumba and other Zimbabwean citizens living abroad filed a complaint alleging that Zimbabwe's residency-based voting laws unlawfully denied them the right to vote in a constitutional referendum. They argued...
Communication 344/07 | 2021-10-20
Interights and Ashraf Ruxi filed a complaint against Egypt on behalf of George Iyanyori and others. They allege that on December 29, 2005, Egyptian authorities surrounded a three-month sit-in demonstration by Sudanese...
Communication 396/11 | 2021-10-20
Human rights organizations filed a complaint against Egypt on behalf of Mohammed Abderrahim El Sharkawi, alleging he was arbitrarily detained for 16 years without charge or trial. The complaint states that Egyptian...
Citation pending | 2021-09-30
This judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights determines the compensation owed by Tanzania to Kennedy Owino Onyachi and Charles John Mwanini Njoka. The Court awarded them monetary compensation for...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/30/21 | 2021-09-29
This judgment concerns a supplementary application requesting the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice to add to its previous ruling. The applicant sought to supplement an earlier judgment that found his employment with...
Citation pending | 2021-09-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights considered an application from Romaric Jesukpego Zinsou and two others against the Republic of Benin, requesting provisional measures. The applicants sought an independent...
[2021] GHASC 143 | 2021-07-29
This Supreme Court judgment details an appeal against lower court rulings that favored the plaintiffs, declaring their joint ownership of a market extension project and granting them possession and partitioning rights....
[2021] GHASC 92 | 2021-07-29
This Supreme Court judgment concerns an appeal regarding a dispute over the joint ownership and management of the Madina Market Extension Project. Lower courts had previously ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, granting...
[2021] GHACA 36 | 2021-07-29
This judgment from the Court of Appeal addresses whether a lower court, after determining that disputed land belonged to the Nungua Stool and not the plaintiff's family, could nonetheless grant a perpetual injunction...
[2021] GHACA 34 | 2021-07-29
Gordon Lotsu sued the Attorney General, alleging his privacy was invaded and his human rights violated when a court document with his undisclosed address mysteriously appeared in his bedroom. The trial court dismissed...
[2021] GHASC 91 | 2021-07-29
This Supreme Court judgment details an appeal concerning a land ownership dispute where lower courts ruled that a plot developed by Nana Obiri Boahen was not covered by his prior judgment, instead affirming Golden Age...
[2021] GHASC 142 | 2021-07-29
Nana Obiri Boahen appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against him in a land dispute with Golden Age Company. Both the High Court and Court of Appeal found that Obiri Boahen had trespassed on property...