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F.9/1 | 1980-06-12
The plaintiff has brought his motion praying the court for an order of interim injunction against the defendants restraining them from entering the top floor of house No. F.9/1, Aboom Road, Cape Coast, and in...
Citation pending | 1980-06-11
love and beauty as opposed to belief in any supernatural power, and (ii) ‘ the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment ’ . Cultivation of that sentiment extended to cultivation among members of the public. The...
2 | 1980-06-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 corporation by ordering the dismissal of the workers. According to the a pplicants, by the terms of its incorporation as contained in NLCD 207, the...
Citation pending | 1980-06-04
Held – The court was entitled, for the purpose of giving effect to a defrauded plaintiff ’ s equitable right to trace his money, to order a bank to disclose the state of, and the documents and correspondence relating...
Citation pending | 1980-05-23
The plaintiff's claim is that she is the proper person to be granted letters of a dministration with will a nnexed in respect of the will of the late Mrs. Mary Dede Obaamra Duncan. The defendant challenges the validity...
Citation pending | 1980-05-20
On 4 March 1977 the defendant declared in a form claiming benefit under the Social Security Act 1975 that he had become unfit to work on Monday, 28 February 1977, and had last worked on Friday, 25 February 1977....
Citation pending | 1980-04-21
The plaintiff and defendant were jointly engaged in the purchase, renovation and resale of a flat. The proceeds of the resale, a mounting to some £3,300, were paid into a bank account in the defendant ’ s name. A...
SG 400 which he had converted to a taxi. After the a ccident | 1980-03-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 was) and judgment was delivered on 15 January 1969. He dismissed the plaintiff's claim and the plaintiff a ppealed against the judgment. I am informed...
Citation pending | 1980-03-18
Injunction – Interlocutory – Danger that defendant may transfer a ssets out of jurisdiction – Discovery or interrogatory in aid of injunction – Discovery of a mounts standing in defendant ’ s bank account – Inspection...
Citation pending | 1980-03-18
The plaintiff, Philip Ashton, by a statement of claim dated 13 September 1978 brought an action seeking damages against the first defendant, Kevin Turner, and the second defendant, Peter McLune, for injuries sustained...
Citation pending | 1980-03-17
within s 108, para 1(a)(iii)a of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970. The Special Commissioners, having made the finding that the taxpayer did ratify the a greement purported to have been made on her behalf by...
Citation pending | 1980-03-10
Abban J. delivered the judgment of the court. The appeal is from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, dated 27 July 1977. In 1974 the respondents through their managing director, one Mr. Carlo, consulted the a...
Citation pending | 1980-03-07
By a deed of covenant dated 1 October 1974 the taxpayer and his wife covenanted to pay £1,000 per a nnum in favour of the wife ’ s parents. By another deed of covenant dated 1 December 1974 the taxpayer and his wife...
Citation pending | 1980-03-05
capsid damage and rehabilitation of damaged crops could best be done by the a griculturists. You are a ccordingly a dvised to refer this part of the case to them." It became necessary therefore to call further...
Citation pending | 1980-03-04
Company – Receiver – Appointment by debenture holder – Liability for costs of action – Action commenced by company and continued by receiver after compulsory winding up – Receiver providing security for defendant ’ s...
Citation pending | 1980-02-28
Charity – Receiver and manager – Appointment by court – Powers – Educational charity – School belonging to charity governed under instrument and a rticles made under statutory authority – Instrument vesting power to...
Citation pending | 1980-02-27
Children and young persons – Care proceedings in juvenile court – Care order – Appeal – Who may appeal – Whether right of appeal given only to child itself – Whether parents can appeal on behalf of child – Children and...
Citation pending | 1980-02-22
By a writ issued on 27 July 1979 the plaintiffs, Armour Hick Northern Ltd, Armour Hick Parker Ltd and Armour Hick & Partners Ltd, claimed against the defendants, David Stuart Whitehouse, Robert Michael Hick, Armour...
Citation pending | 1980-02-01
This was an appeal by way of case stated by the justices for the county of North Yorkshire in respect of their a djudication as a magistrates ’ court sitting at York. On 20 April 1979, the respondent, Det Con Michael...
K.39 | 1980-01-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 estate. Attached to the a pplication was the usual inventory of the deceased's properties including an estate house No. K.39, South Suntreso. A caveat...
1. | 1980-01-15
(4) In the absence of special circumstances the proper rate of interest to be a warded to compensate beneficiaries of a trust fund for non-receipt from a trustee of money that ought to have been received was that a...
Citation pending | 1979-12-19
(2) On the question of estoppel, the doctrine of equitable estoppel was not confined to certain defined categories, and where the estoppel a lleged a rose out of a situation where both parties proceeded on the same...
Citation pending | 1979-12-19
Three men where charged with a ttempting to smuggle 1,500 gold Krugerrand coins into England thereby a ttempting to import prohibited or restricted ‘ goods ’ contrary to s 304 of the Customs and Excise Act 1952. They...
Citation pending | 1979-12-14
Contempt of court – Publication concerning legal proceedings – Disclosure of jury room secrets – Whether mere disclosure punishable as contempt – Whether necessary to show tendency to imperil finality of verdict or to...
Citation pending | 1979-12-11
out within s 209(1). In a scertaining if any development on the line of the highway remained to be carried out, it had to be borne in mind that development began to be carried out as soon as any work was done, even if...
6 of 28 March 1980. | 1979-11-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 of the National Union of Seamen which the defendants [p.945] withdrew on or about 3 June 1978 pending the hearing and determination of this suit; AND...
Citation pending | 1979-11-08
In 1964 A, the leasehold owner of premises comprising a flat and garage, let the premises to the defendant company under a written a greement. The a greement contained a covenant by the defendants to use the garage ‘...
Citation pending | 1979-10-15
A foreign airline loaded 2,120 birds in Bombay for carriage to London via Kuwait. The aircraft developed engine trouble in Kuwait and had to remain there longer than was intended. During that period the birds suffered...
Citation pending | 1979-10-13
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Ambler & Sons Ltd v Bradford Corporation [1902] 2 Ch 585 at 594, CA; and of Scott LJ and Goddard LJ in the long title. (3) On the authorities, if the...
Citation pending | 1979-10-10
(a) (Per Lord Denning MR) The court would not enforce a transaction entered into without independent a dvice where the terms of the transaction were very unfair and where there had been an inequality of bargaining...
7 of 1893 | 1979-09-24
Apaloo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. This matter commenced as an ordinary land suit between two subjects from the Ajumako Traditional Are a in the Central Region. The parties are subjects of two stools...
Citation pending | 1979-07-31
The first defendant (a company known as ‘ Williams ’ ) owned all the shares in the second defendant (a company known as ‘ City ’ ) which in turn owned all the shares in the plaintiff company ( ‘ Belmont ’ ). The...
Citation pending | 1979-07-31
By a writ dated 19 August 1977 and a subsequent statement of claim the plaintiffs, Sir Basil Bartlett Bt, Irene Theodora Bartlett, Henry David Hardington Bartlett, Sheila Bartlett, Norman Alaric Bartlett, Hazel Leslie...
Citation pending | 1979-07-30
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Republic v High Court, Accra and another ex parte Darke XII and [1992 – 1993] 3 G B R 1138 – 1251 Courts – High Court – Jurisdiction – Whether High...
515 in the neighbourhood of the Military Hospital to dismantle a prefabricated structure which had been erected and used f or offices. The plaintiff was detailed to dismantle the structure with another carpenter | 1979-07-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 pelvis, concussion, crush injuries of both legs, both shoulders and neck and both a rms, damage to the tissues of both nostrils; and sexual weakness....
Citation pending | 1979-07-15
There is only one issue of importance in this matter and that is whether the a ppellant is entitled to the disputed house No 24, Block B, Asokwa, Kumasi under the beneficial dispensation of samansiw. Two other matters...
[1979] GLR 223 | 1979-06-22
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 purchased a house subject to a mortgage at No. 3 South Kweikuma Estates, Sekondi, where he and his family have lived ever since. Again the husband was...
MA/AHL/78/HL/0004 issued by the National Corporation of Nigeria of 118 Broad Street | 1979-06-20
For the principles on which the court a cts in granting injunctions, see 24 Halsbury ’ s Laws (4th Edn) paras 953 – 957, for injunctions restraining disposition of property, see ibid para 1018, and for cases on those...
Citation pending | 1979-06-05
This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal [see sub. nom. National Savings and Credit Bank v. Mensah [1989 -90] 1 G.L.R 611 C.A. a nte setting a side a judgment of Ampiah J. (as he then was) sitting in...
Citation pending | 1979-05-23
On 20 November 1972 the defendants entered into an a greement with the plaintiff to purchase a property for him and a rrange for the modernisation and conversion of the property into flats. Pursuant to the a greement...
26 on Friday | 1979-04-30
Consequent upon an industrial dispute which erupted between the Maritime and Dockworkers' Union of the T.U.C. (Black Star Line branch) and the management of the State Shipping Corporation (Black Star Line,) the...
Citation pending | 1979-04-24
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd v William H Price Ltd [1934] AC 455, [1934] AllER Rep 352, 103 LJPC 115, 151 LT 309, 40 Com Cas 132, 49 Ll L Rep 55, PC, 29 Digest (Repl) 349, 2683.
Citation pending | 1979-04-11
Contempt of court – Publications concerning legal proceedings – Court – Inferior court – Local valuation court – Defendants proposing to broadcast television programme on issue pending before local valuation court –...
Citation pending | 1979-04-05
Appeal – Review of exercise of discretion – Duty of a ppellate court – Infant – Wardship proceedings – Judge hearing a pplicant and taking all relevant factors into consideration – Court of Appeal taking hostile a...
Citation pending | 1979-03-16
Tribunal – Appeal on point of law – Tribunal giving incomplete or unsatisfactory definition of ordinary English word in a pplying statute – Value a dded tax tribunal basing decision on inadequate definition of word ‘...
Citation pending | 1979-02-23
For the purpose of investigating into a lleged offences against the Exchange Control Act 1947 Customs and Excise officers, in March 1978, seized documents belonging to several companies. A and B were directors of some...
Citation pending | 1979-02-02
[1979] GLR 566 | 1979-02-01
On 7 November 1978, this court dismissed the defendants' motion which sought for an order from the court to strike out the plaintiff 's action in limine. By the endorsement on her writ the plaintiff's claim against the...
Citation pending | 1979-01-22
By an inter vivos deed of settlement dated 31 January 1958, the settlor directed the trustees of the settlement to apply, during the lives of his children and the life of the survivor of those children ( ‘ the trust...
Citation pending | 1979-01-15
In 1962 the taxpayer company, which carried on a restaurant business, a cquired a ship for £2,449 for the purpose of converting it into a floating restaurant. In carrying out the conversion, the taxpayer company spent...