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Citation pending | 2002-07-22
Divorce – Property – Adjustment order – Matrimonial home – Confiscation proceedings – Whether court precluded from granting wife property a djustment order in relation to property that was subject to proceedings to...
Citation pending | 2002-07-17
Contempt of court – Appeal – Appeal against committal order or other order made in exercise of jurisdiction to punish for contempt – Routes of appeal from such orders – Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13 – Access...
166/2000 THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA | 2002-07-11
BROBBEY, J.A.: Six people, suing for themselves and 764 others, originally instituted an action in the High Court. All the plaintiffs were pensioners of the Ghana Commercial Bank Limited. Their initial claims were for...
52/2002 HADMORIS CO. LTD. | 2002-07-04
GBADEGBE, JA: The question my lords which confronts us in this appeal is whether the learned trial judge was right in a warding interest on the sum of twenty nine million cedis only and not on the entire amount of...
Citation pending | 2002-07-03
Claim form – Service – Deemed day of service – Rule of procedure establishing deemed day of service of documents – Whether irrebuttability of deemed day of service incompatible with right of access to court – Whether...
14/2001 | 2002-07-03
MRS. JUSTICE J. BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the Judgment of the Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement Commission Appeal Tribunal delivered at Accra on the 21st day of May 1992. The said Judgment stemmed...
Citation pending | 2002-06-27
Contempt of court – Refusal to disclose source of information – Journalist – Disclosure necessary in interests of justice – Circumstances in which court can order journalist to disclose source – Contempt of Court Act...
61/2001 | 2002-06-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 (6) The plaintiff and his elders orally a greed with the defendant that the defendant was to finance the plaintiff Anamankohene to build a (4) four...
83/2000 EMELIA MORKOR COMMODORE QUAYE | 2002-06-27
TWUMASI, J.A: In this appeal I intend to refer to the respondent as the plaintiff and the a ppellant as the defendant as they represented themselves at the trial High Court, Tema. The indorsement on the writ of summons...
145/2002 | 2002-06-27
11/2002 | 2002-06-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 54 I find it difficult to understand why or how a document intended to instruct and set standards for Court Clerks, Ushers, Machine Operators and to a...
156/2000 | 2002-06-20
TWUMASI, J.A.: The a ppellants representing the stool of Gomoa Akyemfo instituted an action before the High Court, Cape Coast against the respondents, the first in his capacity as the chief of a town called Dwema...
173/2001. | 2002-06-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 BERNARD KOJO MENSAH | 2002-05-30
WOOD, JA: The plaintiff/Respondents were working as night duty watchmen at Chujah crossing on the defendant/a ppellant company’s gold concession, when one of the company’s truck and a hired mini bus were involved in a...
137/2000 1. ADJETEY AGBOSU | 2002-05-30
8/2001 | 2002-05-29
T. K. ADZOE, J.S.C.: reversed the trial High Court's judgment in favour of the plaintiff/respondent/a ppellant whom we shall hereafter refer to simply as the a ppellant. The defendants/a ppellants/respondents will...
45/2001 | 2002-05-23
ANSAH, JA : This is an appeal against the judgment of an Accra High Court delivered on 15th December 1999. As per their writ of summons, the plaintiffs claimed the following reliefs against the defendants, namely: (a)...
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 AUGUSTINE ACKERSON | 2002-05-23
ANSAH, JA: This is appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, given on 13th January 1992. The plaintiffs has sued the defendant for a. "Declaration that the plaintiffs’ dismissal from the defendant's...
Citation pending | 2002-05-20
Receiver – Appointed by court – Remuneration – Receiver a ppointed to preserve a ssets of defendant who might become subject to confiscation order – Whether receiver entitled to use a ssets of unconvicted or a cquitted...
6/2002 | 2002-05-18
AMPIAH, J.S.C.: On 11th February, 2002, this Court by a majority of 5 to 4 gave judgment for the plaintiff herein in a suit entitled, "Tsatsu Tsikata VRS. Attorney -General" — Writ No. 2/2002. Whereupon the Attorney -...
16/2000. | 2002-05-16
HRC 27/09 | 2002-05-13
On 28 -07 -2009, the plaintiff, Mrs. Betty Kyei Asante, issued a writ in this court against the Kenya Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (the 1st and 2nd Defendants respectively) claiming the following reliefs: 1....
44/2001 | 2002-05-09
TWUMASI, J.A.: This appeal raises the vexed question as to the proper approach which a court is required to adopt in determining an issue in a case where the parties have stated their respective versions of the issue...
123/2000 MADAM ELIZABETH A. MOMO | 2002-05-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 deny all the material a verments on which the claim was founded, but contended that it was rather the a ppellant, who by erecting a one bed roomed house...
49/98. | 2002-05-09
AKOTO -BAMFO: Madam Afua Tema, the plaintiff -respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff is the landlady of the property the subject -matter of the appeal, whereas the defendants/a ppellants now simply...
E32 | 2002-04-25
ARYEETEY, J.A.: A brief background to this appeal is as follows: The late Mr. Harold Smith Boatin, the testator herein was married to Mrs. Rebecca Boatin in 1939 and had children by her, one of whom is the...
37/2001 WASSEM ATTIEH ... PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
3/2000 | 2002-04-24
37/2001. | 2002-04-24
JOYCE BAMFORD -ADDO, J.S.C.: This is an a pplication for the Review of the Judgment of the Supreme Court dated 9th May 2001 brought by Defendants/Applicants under Rule particularly 54(a) of the Supreme Court Rules...
15/2001. | 2002-04-02
3/2001 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL ACCRA -GHANA CA/NO. 3/2001 G.K. AFORDI | 2002-03-28
ADINYIRA (MRS) J.A.: The plaintiffs/a ppellants (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellants) who were former employees of Ghana Publishing Corporation, began an action in the High Court against the 1st...
196/2000 | 2002-03-28
MRS. AKOTO -BAMFO, J.A.: This is an appeal and a cross appeal filed against the decision of the Circuit Court dated the 8th of November 1999. In order to a ppreciate the issues raised, I find it necessary to give a...
Citation pending | 2002-03-27
Contempt of court – Committal – Jurisdiction – Execution of warrant for possession – Whether warrant for possession a nullity if issued before date on which possession to be given up – Whether penal notice having to be...
2/2002. | 2002-03-13
R.C. OWUSU, JA: This is an appeal against the Judgment of His Lordship Nana Barfour Adjei (Chairman) sitting with Messrs Eric Wood and George Amissah, Miss Cobbah -Yalley and Florence Dadzie as panel members delivered...
Citation pending | 2002-03-11
The claimant, a Premier League footballer with a responsible position at his club, was a married man with children. He had transient a dulterous relationships with the second defendant, C, and another woman, D, who...
Citation pending | 2002-03-01
The complainant brought a complaint to an employment tribunal of unfair dismissal and race discrimination against her former employer. Shortly a fterwards, she wrote to the tribunal to withdraw her a pplication. The...
Citation pending | 2002-02-26
In 1872, C, the owner of an estate in Somerset, conveyed, under s 2a of the School Sites Act 1841, part of the estate to the rector of a local parish to be used for the purposes of that Act, ie as the site for a...
195/2000 | 2002-02-07
WOOD, JA.: I agree with my learned brother that the appeal should succeed. The Respondent endorsed his writ for a number of reliefs including "an order for plaintiff's reinstatement or in lien ¢20 million compensation...
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 MARTIN ALAMISI AMIDU v. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER AND ANO. | 2002-01-30
SOPHIA A. B. AKUFFO, J.S.C.: On 7th December 2000, the 1st defendant conducted Parliamentary elections throughout the country. Subsequent to these elections, the results were formally published in Ghana Gazette Number...
Citation pending | 2002-01-17
GBADEGBE, JA: This is an interlocutory appeal from the ruling of an Accra High Court whereby the learned trial judge refused an a pplication at the behest of the a ppellant (to whom I shall for convenience in these...
Citation pending | 2001-12-21
In three separate multi-party a ctions, cost-sharing orders were made under CPR 48.6A, a provision which related to costs where group litigation orders had been made. Each order, inter a lia, defined ‘ individual costs...
Citation pending | 2001-12-20
In the course of an a pplication by the claimant for summary judgment, the master saw certain ‘ without prejudice ’ correspondence in which the defendant stated that it would accept judgment being given for a...
Citation pending | 2001-12-20
The claimant was the trustee of a centralised ‘ industry-wide ’ pension scheme for non-a ssociated employers in the construction industry. The scheme was divided into different sections, with each section representing...
Citation pending | 2001-12-18
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Freezing order – Worldwide freezing order – Pre-trial order – Extra-territorial effect of order – Protection of third parties – Freezing order in standard form – Proviso...
Citation pending | 2001-12-14
Housing – Homeless person – Duty of housing authority to provide a ccommodation – Appeals procedure – Local authority reviewing officer not an independent and impartial tribunal – Applicant having right of appeal on...
Citation pending | 2001-12-14
Housing – Homeless person – Duty of housing authority to provide a ccommodation – Appeals procedure – Local authority reviewing officer not an independent and impartial tribunal – Applicant having right of appeal on...
Citation pending | 2001-12-13
The defendants, M and G, formed a business partnership to acquire and develop properties. In order to pursue that enterprise, they jointly borrowed money from companies in the claimant banking group (the bank). M also...
6/2000 YAW TAWIAH ... PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT/RESPONDENT VRS. 1. OPANIN KWADWO BAAH 2. OSEI YAW | 2001-12-12
T.K. ADZOE, J.S.C.: Isaac Ottie a lias Agya Atta died on 10th August, 1982. He hailed from Kenkase, Kwabre No. 3 in Ashanti. He left behind a Will dated 26th January, 1982. In the Will he devised houses and farms to...
Citation pending | 2001-11-26
The claimant was an Australian national of Lebanese origin and owned a house in Australia. In February 2000 the claimant, who was then resident in Athens and had no connections with the United Kingdom, brought...
Citation pending | 2001-11-23
The a ppellants, Syed Badshah Nawab Husain and Iqbal Zafar, former employees of the respondent, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in liquidation) (BCCI), a ppealed with permission of the Court of Appeal...