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Citation pending | 1988-08-05
The plaintiff -judgment creditor -respondent (hereinafter called the plaintiff) took an action on 23 August 1984 against the defendant -judgment debtor -a pplicant (hereinafter called the defendant) claiming the...
2 | 1988-08-04
Osei -Hwere J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. House No. D 40, West Patasi Estate, Kumasi was a cquired by the defendant, Kwaku Wih, in February 1974 from the State Housing Corporation on a hire -purchase lease....
Citation pending | 1988-08-03
The plaintiff, Barclays Bank of Swaziland Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of Swaziland, a ppealed against the order made by Sir Neil Lawson sitting as a judge of the High Court in the Queen ’ s Bench...
Citation pending | 1988-07-28
Sale of land – Contract – Completion – Notice to complete – Validity – Material misdescription of are a in conditions of sale – Whether vendors ready and willing to fulfil own outstanding obligations – Whether notice...
We can see no justification for holding that Mr Dungate | 1988-07-28
(1) Since the common feature of a contract of the utmost good faith was that by the very nature of the contract one party was likely to have command of means of knowledge not a vailable to the other, the obligation to...
I do not think | 1988-07-26
Conflict of laws – Foreign debt – Action in England to recover foreign debt – Debt created by judgment in personam of foreign court of competent jurisdiction – Presence in foreign jurisdiction – Corporate defendant –...
Citation pending | 1988-07-21
In the first case the taxpayers owned a family company, Q Ltd, which in 1973 they decided to sell. Their initial a ttempts to dispose of the company were not successful but in 1976 they entered into negotiations, first...
Citation pending | 1988-07-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 down by virtue of those provisions for the taking of confession statements made by a ccused persons was not complied with when the a ccused'sstatement...
Citation pending | 1988-07-18
These are two a pplications before the court both of which are seeking to a mend portions of the pleadings. The first one was put in by the co -defendants, and the second by the plaintiff. The brief facts of this part...
5/84 and recovered judgment for the entire amount owed together with interest and costs on 30 July 1984. In an effort to go into execution the defendants a ttached on sale the combine harvester they paid for on behalf of | 1988-07-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 The a greement also enjoined the customer to pay all the licence and registration fees and deposit all such documents with the bank. Simply put, this a...
ADB 4/5 602115 drawn on account No. 00448 together with the statement of account which you presented to this department as a result of the public auction held on 30 July 1984. This is as a result of a representation made for and on behalf of the Pantang Hospital by the Ministry of Health to rehabilitate this tank to solve the water problem at the above hospital. Since this request is a national a ffair | 1988-07-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 take delivery of the tank, he was driven a way by the managing director with a threat to spill out his blood if he would not get a way. Upon the...
Citation pending | 1988-07-07
F. and M. Khoury, the defendant -a pplicants (hereinafter called the a pplicants) lost an action in the High Court, Sekondi on 15 May 1987. They a ppealed to the Court of Appeal, and a gain lost on 7 July 1988 (see...
4/12 also known as house No. 1 | 1988-07-07
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 for and representing the plaintiffs together with two other a dult beneficiaries, namely Adjuah Inframa and Effua Kobinaba, as lessors, executed a...
Q. The deduction is that he did not resign | 1988-07-04
second plaintiff is a member of the a ssociation or a member of the executive; (2) that Mr. Poku had ever resigned from the a ssociation; and (3) all charges of il legality, and elections were not valid. The issues...
Citation pending | 1988-07-01
By a summons dated 1 October 1987 the defendant, National Westminster Bank plc (the landlords), a pplied to strike out para 20 of the statement of claim in proceedings commenced by the plaintiffs, Michael John Arnold,...
Citation pending | 1988-06-29
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Worldwide Mareva injunction – Post-judgment injunction – Extra-territorial effect of injunction – Protection of third parties – Foreign defendant...
Citation pending | 1988-06-28
of the Republic of Togo live the ethnic group of people called Bimoba or Bima. They have Bimoba or Muor as their language. The town of Bunkpurugu is their a dmini strative, [p.328] traditional and commercial capital....
Citation pending | 1988-06-28
The plaintiffs took this action claiming damages from the defendants as owners of a vehicle driven by their employee which got involved in an a ccident resulting in injuries to the plaintiffs and damage to the second...
Citation pending | 1988-06-22
Held – An obligation on a landlord to repair the outside of premises could be implied into a tenancy a greement where it was necessary to do so to give business efficacy to the a greement. Accordingly, where a tenancy...
0861 dated | 1988-06-10
plaintiff’s bankers through the court. The first leg of the claim was therefore a bandoned. The suit was set down for hearing on 7 June 1988. The defendants failed t o a ppear in court a lthough duly served with the...
Citation pending | 1988-06-09
I have had the a dvantage of reading beforehand the opinions of my brothers Amua -Sekyi JSC and Ofori -Boateng JA. Both have sketched the facts of this case in great detail, and I do not need to repeat them here. It is...
Citation pending | 1988-05-31
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 APPIAH v THE REPUBLIC [1997 -98] 1 GLR 219 -226 proved by prosecution -Whether conviction of a ppellant to be set a side on account of defect in charge...
Citation pending | 1988-05-13
This is an appeal against a judgment of the district magistrate sitting at Tema. The undisputed facts of the case are that two houses originally owned by the Tema Development Corporation and numbered as AP10 and AP12...
Citation pending | 1988-05-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 AMUZU v OKLIKAH [1997 – 98] GLR 89 -143 Rules, 1954 (LN I40A), Order 19, rr 6 and 16. Land registration -Instruments a ffecting land - Registration...
GT 2056 by the first defendant | 1988-05-06
By an a mended writ and statement of claim filed on 31 January 1986 the plaintiff's claim, as a dministrator of the estate of the late Mohamadu Yortuhor Anane, against the defendants jointly and severally, is for...
Citation pending | 1988-05-05
In June 1978 the respondent landlords entered into an a greement with the a ppellants ’ predecessors in title as tenants for the grant of a 99 – year lease of land and the development to be erected thereon. Although no...
424A. Dated in Atlanta/Georgia December 15 1987. | 1988-05-05
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 against presentation of our duly endorsed original Kingwood Container Lines bill of lading K.C.L. 424B. Dated in Atlanta, Georgia, December 15 1987." It...
I have no personal knowledge of the proceeds. | 1988-04-21
This is an a pplication for an order to recall and revoke letters of a dministration granted in respect of the estate of the late Mary Afi Teiko Hervie. The grant was made to Kofi Boye and Bishop Dawutey, the...
Citation pending | 1988-04-13
Per curiam. A contract will be void ab initio for common mistake if a mistake by both parties to the contract renders the subject matter of the contract essentially and radically different from that which both parties...
Citation pending | 1988-03-30
On 10 February 1988 I gave judgment in this case and made certain orders. This a pplication is brought by the plaintiff -judgment creditor, referred to in this a pplication as the plaintiff, for a review of the said...
Citation pending | 1988-03-23
Held – There was no obligation in law on the bank to ensure that the defendants received entirely independent legal a dvice before they executed the legal charge on the property. The bank was entitled to assume that S...
Citation pending | 1988-03-23
The plaintiff -a ppellant herein issued out a writ of summons at the District Court Grade 1, Tamale. By the particulars of claim, the a ppellant claimed against the defendant -respondent damages for false imprisonment...
Citation pending | 1988-03-22
By the writ of summons, the plaintiff -company claims from the defendant -bank: “(a) Damages for breach of contract based on the heads of a greement signed between the parties (the plaintiff and the defendant) and a...
Citation pending | 1988-03-22
The a ppellant was a rraigned before the District Court Grade I, Tamale on 8 March 1988 charged with the offence of threat of death under section 75 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). The record of proceedings shows...
Citation pending | 1988-03-17
In February 1985 the landlord let a flat to a young unmarried couple under separate but identical a greements termed ‘ licences ’ which stipulated with reiterated emphasis that the occupants were not to have exclusive...
2525 | 1988-03-16
The a ppellant was the lessee of commercial premises. The respondents were the underlessees of the premises and claimed that, following negotiations, an oral a greement had been reached for the grant of a new...
Citation pending | 1988-03-10
The first four defendants were partners who beneficially owned a group of companies which traded together as a single entity. Over a number of years the plaintiff bank a fforded loan facilities to five companies in the...
59/87 Republic v. Abudulai Darkurugu | 1988-03-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) which enacts that "A plea of guilty, when recorded, shall constitute a conviction." Provisions similar to those...
Citation pending | 1988-03-02
By an originating summons dated 25 September 1986 Avon County Council a pplied, pursuant to RSC Ord 113, for an order for possession of land to the rear of 10 – 16 Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath, Avon, owned by the...
Citation pending | 1988-02-26
Solicitor – Negligence – Undertaking – Breach of undertaking – Duty owed to third party – Husband ’ s solicitors giving implied undertaking to wife ’ s solicitors not to release husband ’ s passport – Husband obtaining...
Citation pending | 1988-02-26
a lthough the making of the tape recordings was an act done by the a ppellant ‘ by reference to ’ the 1976 Act in relation to the organisation within the meaning of s 2(1)(c), the a ppellant had failed to show that he...
90353701. And debit this amount to Quincecare Ltd. A/c No. 10727210. | 1988-02-24
Accordingly, it was an implied term of the contract between the bank and the customer that the bank would observe reasonable skill and care in and about executing the customer ’ s orders but generally that duty was...
D 940/3 | 1988-02-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 b. an injunction restraining the defendant, her a gents or a ssigns and privies from further harassing the plaintiff.” The defendant filed a...
Citation pending | 1988-01-28
In this action the plaintiff, Nii Ashitey Armah, claimed against the defendant, Asare Baffour, "the sum of ¢50,000 damages for breach of an a greement and the recovery of ¢200,000 or the return of the Bedford vehicle...
GX 5709 | 1988-01-27
By his writ of summons, the plaintiff claims against the defendants jointly and severally general and special damages for: "(a) breach of contract to repair the plaintiff's motor car Peugeot 504 Estate No. GX 5709; (b)...
Citation pending | 1988-01-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 "9. Some time in 1982, the first defendant for humanitarian reasons a greed to allow the plaintiffs, whom he had known as Niger nationals trading in...
Citation pending | 1987-12-31
Adade J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 25 April 1990 we a llowed this appeal and made some consequential orders. But we reserved our reasons which we now give. By a debenture (exhibit MBA) and a deed of...
Citation pending | 1987-12-21
Held (Sir George Waller dissenting) – The a greements made between the plaintiffs and the defendants had the effect of granting the defendants exclusive possession of residential a ccommodation at a rent for a term and...
Citation pending | 1987-12-21
judge further held that the Sunday Times had been in breach of its duty of confidence when it published the first extract of its intended serialisation and was therefore a ccountable for the profits resulting from that...
Citation pending | 1987-12-21
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 evidence it would seem to accord more with the price that would prevail during the fishing boom. Thus I would take it that the price per crate within...