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20 of 1958 | 1982-05-11
This is an appeal from the ruling of the High Court, Sunyani. The main ground a rgued by the a ppellant was that "on the a ffidavits filed by the parties it is clear that Tanoso is not within the Techiman Traditional...
Citation pending | 1982-04-24
Mensa Boison J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant, Simon Adjei Berko, a ppeals against his conviction on 3 April 1981 for the manslaughter of Kwame Avodzivi before Amua -Sekyi J: at the High Court,...
27 dated Friday 20 June 1975 for the purpose of quashing the same. | 1982-04-23
He By his a mended a pplication filed on 12 August 1977, Nana Anka Akyeamfour II (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellant), sought "an order of certiorari to remove the name of the third respondent), Nana Sefa...
Not necessarily. The NAC is an institution provided under the rules and the rules express its function. | 1982-04-05
The employer, a large company, was divided into two sub-groups, each of which was divided into divisions which operated at various sites in the United Kingdom. An independent trade union had members in both sub-groups...
130/3 | 1982-03-19
By an originating summons the plaintiff claims from the defendant herein, the following reliefs: "1. Redemption of house No. 130/3, Kwesimintsim Zongo, near Takoradi. 2. Re -conveyance of house No. 130/3, Kwesimintsim...
Citation pending | 1982-03-09
Twumasi J. The claim by the plaintiffs is for: (a) a declaration that the defendant is not a chief, that is to say, he has never been nominated, elected and installed as a chief a ccording to Egyambra custom and usage...
Citation pending | 1982-03-05
Judicial review – Declaration – Circumvention of procedure for a pplication for judicial review – Action for declaration circumventing procedure for judicial review – PlaintIffs found guilty of disciplinary offences...
Citation pending | 1982-03-01
OF SARPONG Ag. J. The plaintiff sued the defendant at the Wenchi District Court, Grade 1, for a declaration of title and recovery of possession of land described in the writ and also an order for injunction. Judgment...
Citation pending | 1982-02-26
that he was handcuffed and severely beaten by the police and forced to make a confession by thumb -printing a written statement and that he did not even know th e contents of the statement. He showed to the court, scar...
Citation pending | 1982-02-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 On further interrogation, the first and second a ppellants told the police that when the deceased died they left him in the bush, but later in the...
15 | 1982-02-18
Mensa Boison J.A. This is an appeal from the judgment of a Kumasi Circuit Court dated 20 August 1979, and presided over by P. K. Twumasi, Esq. (then a circuit court judge) whereby he found for the plaintiff for...
GZA 8470 was one of the cars. O as consignee | 1982-01-27
controversy between the parties herein. The order for preservation was obtained on an ex parte a pplication at the time the co -defendant, a pparently not being a ware of the pendency of the suit, was not a party...
Citation pending | 1982-01-25
This is an appeal from the judgment of his Honour. K. K. Okyere, Circuit Judge, sitting at Cape Coast. The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) in his capacity as head of the Abokyi family...
Citation pending | 1982-01-25
Counsel for the a pplicant says the respondent was granted bail by this court to a ppear on a certain date. Two persons, Paul Sika Bentuo and Cosmos Asubonteng stood as the respondent's sureties. On the a djourned date...
Citation pending | 1982-01-19
This is an appeal by the defendant against the judgment of the District Court, Grade 1, Goaso. By his writ of summons issued on 28 July 1980, the plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the respondent),...
Citation pending | 1981-12-21
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Pending proceedings – Publication of matter calculated to prejudice fair trial – Defence – Newspaper a rticle on matter of public interest – Whether words...
22499 CC/1 stationed at Tarkwa in the Western Region. Some time in October 1981 | 1981-12-21
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 [p.533] Mr. Owoo a rgued that the police authorities had power to revoke the a ppointment of Mr. Senti in favour of Mr. Dokyi. Miss Sutherland's...
2 | 1981-12-15
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 favour of the first defendant who was then declared owner of the land, the subject -matter of the suit. An unpleasant repercussion of the plaintiffs'...
Citation pending | 1981-12-03
The a ppellant caused a disturbance in a bus queue while a ttempting to board a bus. He was restrained by an off-duty police officer who was in plain clothes. A struggle ensued between the a ppellant and the officer,...
Citation pending | 1981-12-03
A construction company carried out work on the foundations of a number of buildings which had been damaged by subsidence. The original foundations did not comply with modern building regulations and the work of...
167/72 heard by the District Court | 1981-12-01
This a pplication is for leave to a dduce fresh evidence at the hearing of an appeal now pending before this court by tendering pages 20 -22 and 27 -29 of the record of proceedings in suit No.167/72 heard by the...
Citation pending | 1981-11-30
The taxpayer and his wife separated in 1970, and in 1975 the taxpayer commenced divorce proceedings. Since 1964 the taxpayer and his wife had been the joint legal and beneficial owners of a property which had not at...
Citation pending | 1981-11-26
The a ppellants were the owners of a fishing boat which sank on 31 December 1971 while berthed in Aberdeen harbour. The vessel was a complete loss. At the time the respondents, a security company, were required by a...
Citation pending | 1981-11-18
Held – The Crown ’ s right to treasure trove was limited to objects of gold and silver, and for an a rticle to be so described it had to contain a substantial amount of precious metal. Whether an object in fact...
82/79 | 1981-10-28
The litigation between the parties started in 1971 when one Kobina Awotwi, also called Frederick Swanzy, issued a writ in the High Court, Cape Coast against the nine children of the late Kwamena Nuamah, also called...
Citation pending | 1981-10-15
By a time charterparty in the New York Produce Exchange form, the charterers hired the owners ’ vessel to carry a cargo of coal from Baltimore to Tokyo. Clause 8 of the charterparty provided that the captain was to be...
156/81. AND for such further order or orders as to this court may a ppear just in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction under a rticle 119 of the Constitution | 1981-10-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 On 12 October 1981, the High Court of Justice presided over by Sarkodee J. gave a ruling. He said: "Throughout criminal trials there is a golden thread...
Citation pending | 1981-09-09
Edward Wiredu J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a conviction of the a ppellant on 28 July 1980 on a charge of murder of one Amadu Fulani at a farm situate on the Afienya Dawhenya road by...
Citation pending | 1981-09-07
Pursuant to leave granted by this court on 7 September 1981, this court was moved on 9 November 1981 by Mercer, counsel for the a pplicants, for the orders of certiorari and prohibition to issue against a certain...
113/81. Before his interdiction on 23 March 1981 | 1981-08-21
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 8 that the commission does not have to be a ppointed to conduct an inquiry into any a spect of a corporation's business. It is already there, set up for...
Citation pending | 1981-07-31
Kendall (Henry) & Sons (a firm) v William Lillico & Sons Ltd [1968] 2 AllER 444, [1969] 2 AC 31, [1968] 3 WLR 110, sub nom Hardwick Game Farm v Suffolk Agricultural & Poultry Producers Association Ltd [1968] 1 Lloyd ’...
Citation pending | 1981-07-27
By a writ issued on 31 May 1979 the plaintiff, Peter Bacon, claimed against the defendants, Cooper (Metals) Ltd, damages for breach of contract on the sale of goods by the defendants to the plaintiff or a lternatively...
Citation pending | 1981-07-14
Per curiam. Where a court a ssumes a proposition of law to be correct without a ddressing its mind to it the decision of that court is not binding authority for that proposition (see p 116 g h, post).
2 | 1981-07-13
He delivered the ruling of the majority court. We think this is not a proper case in which we should review our own judgment pronounced on 24 November 1988 (see Ababio v. Mensah [1989 -90] 1 G.L.R. 561, S.C. a nte). We...
Citation pending | 1981-07-13
He delivered the ruling of the majority of the court. The first a pplicant, Nana Prako Ababio (hereafter called the a pplicants), was at one time the undisputed chief of Techimantia. In December 1977 he a bdicated from...
Citation pending | 1981-07-10
This is an a pplication by the a ppellant herein, Ya Na Yakubu Andani II, Paramount Chief of the Dagomba Traditional Are a, a sking the court to restore to the list an appeal which was deemed to have been struck out,...
BA 147 | 1981-07-06
The a ppellant, by an ex parte motion, a pplied to the High Court, Kumasi, for letters of a dministration in respect of the estate of [p.258] her late husband and on the orders of the court the usual notices were...
Citation pending | 1981-07-01
The plaintiffs, Alan Estates Ltd ( ‘ the landlords ’ ), a ppealed against the judgment of his Honour Judge Rubin sitting as a judge of the High Court, given on 1 February 1980 in favour of the first defendants, WG...
Citation pending | 1981-07-01
Conflict of laws – Foreign law – Enforcement – New Zealand statute providing for forfeiture of historic a rticles unlawfully removed from New Zealand – Claim by New Zealand Attorney General in England for return of a...
Citation pending | 1981-06-22
In 1959 the taxpayer built a dwelling house for himself and his family on 1·1 a cres of land which he had a cquired in Wiltshire. From 1961, because of the demands of his work, the taxpayer and his family lived in a...
Citation pending | 1981-06-16
Julius Bessah Hormeku was an employee of the Ghana Prisons Service. His conditions of employment included a provision that in cases of misconduct or unsatisfactory service, disciplinary proceedings shall be conducted...
70/8 | 1981-06-08
Kwamina Essuman (deceased). House No. 70/8, Third Street, Sekondi a nd five others were built on lands not family property by the plaintiffs' said father and by his own exertions, unaided by the members of his family....
Citation pending | 1981-06-05
Commonwealth immigrant – Appeal – Appeal against refusal to issue special voucher a dmitting United Kingdom passport holder to United Kingdom – Whether right of appeal from entry clearance officer ’ s decision –...
Citation pending | 1981-05-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 It would a ppear that the spectators did not like the referee's handling of the match. They protested against his performance and his decisions during...
Citation pending | 1981-05-20
Child – Care – Local authority – Wardship proceedings – Jurisdiction of court to review decisions of local authority – Wardship proceedings by natural parent – Decision of local authority to limit mother ’ s access to...
Citation pending | 1981-05-12
Interest – Debt – Jurisdiction to include interest in default judgment – Judgment in default of a ppearance – Whether proceedings ending with entry of judgment in default ‘ tried ’ in court – Whether court having...
1980/1. The tender was resisted and this led to a legal wrangle proceeding from the circuit court | 1981-05-06
This appeal from the refusal of Anterkyi J. to quash by certiorari, a ruling of an Accra Circuit Court, raises very narrow but important issues on the Evidence Decree, 1975 (NRCD 323). [p.135] The special prosecutor of...
Citation pending | 1981-04-07
The a pplicants brought an action in the High Court, Cape Coast a sking for certain reliefs. The court dismissed the suit and they a ppealed unsuccessfully to the Court of Appeal. If they desired to appeal further to...
79 of 1959 | 1981-04-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The preliminary question that erupted in this proceeding is whether the plaintiff, who is the divisional chief of Gwira Banso in the Gwira Traditional...
Citation pending | 1981-04-01
Where a point of law is not taken in the court of first instance because that court is bound by authority to overrule it, that is not by itself a ground for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council refusing to allow...