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[1979] GLR 559 | 1978-12-27
Apaloo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant is a clerk employed in the Circuit Court at Tamale. He owns a leasehold premises there. It is house No. CHE. 41. The lessor is the Government of Ghana and...
[1979] GLR 551 | 1978-12-20
JONATHAN YIRENKYI: CLERK: — For that you on 16 September 1977 at Agona Swedru in the Central Magisterial District and within the jurisdiction of this court with intent to defraud one Nana Opuni the wholesale keeper of...
Citation pending | 1978-12-04
Criminal law – Trial – Retrial – Order for retrial – Power of appeal court – Retrial for murder ordered by Hong Kong Court of Appeal – Whether court required to be satisfied of probability of conviction on retrial –...
Citation pending | 1978-11-30
Contempt of court – Witness – Disclosure of identity – Justices in committal proceedings a llowing witness to conceal his identity – Ruling given for reasons of national security – No formal direction or order by...
[1979] GLR 348 | 1978-11-06
The plaintiff sued the defendant at the District Court Grade I, Cape Coast, and claimed from her house No. A. 156 situated at Kurankyekrom, Saltpond. This house was originally a cquired by the plaintiff's father which...
[1979] GLR 387 | 1978-10-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 February 1973; (b) loss of earnings from 19 February 1973 up to the date of judgment at an a verage rate of ¢20 per day. The defendants denied...
Citation pending | 1978-10-16
The plaintiffs occupied a residential property consisting of a house and garden. In the garden there was a greenhouse some 16 feet long built a longside the boundary with the neighbouring property and which had been...
Citation pending | 1978-10-11
Tribunal – Review of decision – Administrative tribunal – Defence Council – Council refusing to issue certificate that deceased died from wound sustained on active service – Council a pplying wrong construction of...
42 | 1978-10-11
The a pplicant, Emmanuel Oduro, is a solicitor's clerk and he brings this a pplication for an order of habeas corpus for the purpose of liberating General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong whom he a lleges to be illegally...
[1979] GLR 330 | 1978-10-09
The plaintiff who describes herself as a widow and a trader by her writ of summons issued out of this court claims against the defendant: "(a) A declaration of title to the premises at New Abossey Okai (at Sakwei South...
[1979] GLR 378 | 1978-08-01
The a pplicant moves the court for an injunction in the nature of quo warranto to restrain the respondent, Nana Kwame Sagoe II, from exercising the functions of mankrado of Agona Kwaman; a cting as such mankrado or...
ZR 75 | 1978-07-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 and the tenant should later go into a ccounts to a scertain the tenant’s expenditure on repairs; and that upon the taking of a ccounts, the defendant...
Citation pending | 1978-07-21
The defendants, Sterling Mansell Ltd, a ppealed against the decision of Mr District Registrar Gavin on 26 May 1978 whereby he dismissed an a pplication by the defendants for an order that all further proceedings in an...
610/76 | 1978-07-13
On 6 April 1978, Nene Akrofi Kubi III, hereinafter referred to as the informant, laid an information by motion ex parte under section 22 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30), before the District Court Grade I,...
[1979] GLR 213 | 1978-06-19
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 irregularity which has occasioned a substantial miscarriage of justice, thus such conviction, sentence and warrant of imprisonment be declared null and...
Citation pending | 1978-05-24
a ssault causing bodily harm. It followed that on the facts the a ppellant had not committed an offence under s 1(1). The appeal would therefore be a llowed (see p 176 a to e, post).
Citation pending | 1978-05-19
Contempt of court – Witness – Disclosure of identity – Justices in committal proceedings ruling identity of witness not to be disclosed – Ruling given for reasons of national security – Witness permitted to write down...
[1979] GLR 11 | 1978-05-19
Francois J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 25 June 1968, Kwaku Grunshie faced a charge of murder at the Sunyani Criminal Sessions. Before the trial commenced his counsel pleaded that he should be sent for...
[1979] GLR 469 | 1978-05-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 gave evidence for the respondent. No receipt was issued for that payment. The a ppellant's evidence was that only N¢170 was paid by the respondent and...
[1979] GLR 173 | 1978-05-18
This is yet another appeal from the Circuit Court, Ho, wherein the issue of jurisdiction (or the lack of it) of the native tribunal which had tried cases in respect of the same land now in dispute and had given...
[1979] GLR 162 | 1978-05-18
claimed to be eye -witnesses of this quarrel. The first witness, Samuel Quarm, described how the a ppellant and his brother openly a ccused Kofi Takyi and Avor K ojo of theft and then insisted that they produce the...
[1979] GLR 22 | 1978-05-17
The a ppellant was a litigant in a civil case before the District Court Grade II, Duayaw Nkwanta. At the conclusion of the judgment therein, delivered by the presiding magistrate and which went against him, the a...
[1979] GLR1 | 1978-04-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 made an a ward in favour of the claimants. The said section 7 (b) under which he purported to act is in the following terms: "7. (b) if, on such a...
[1979] GLR 53 | 1978-04-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 this action for the court to determine how much is due to him as Kyidomhene and for the payment of the a llowance with effect from April 1969. In...
[1979] GLR 44 | 1978-04-04
This appeal is from the decision of his worship Mr. S. A. Afful, as he then was, sitting as a rent magistrate in an Accra District Court on a case stated to him by a Mr. Yaw Buadu, a rent officer, on the a pplication...
Citation pending | 1978-03-21
The husband had a controlling interest in, and was a director of, a private company ( ‘ the company ’ ) by virtue of his shareholding in another private company, a holding company. Members of his family held the...
[1979] GLR 90 | 1978-03-17
This is a straightforward case and a lthough in the view I take of the law, the facts in detail are not necessary for a decision, a very brief narration or summary of the said facts may be helpful in order to set the...
[1979] GLR 250 | 1978-03-17
[His lordship reviewed the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] One of the a ppellant's main grounds of complaint is that at the close of the case for the prosecution a prima facie case had not been made...
A.22/1 | 1978-03-17
The facts of these consolidated suits are not necessary for the purpose of this decision. This is in fact an a pplication for an order a ttaching five persons, who were strangers to the suit, for contempt of court. The...
[1979] GLR 27 | 1978-03-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 "Following a service inquiry held into your conduct by Mr. A. A. Asare, Assistant Superintendent in a ccordance with regulation 4 (3) (c) of the Police...
[1979] GLR 35 | 1978-03-17
The a ppellant is the proprietor of a beer bar, called Mok, at Zongo Lane, Accra. The case of the respondent in the court below was that on 18 December 1974, he went to the a ppellant's beer bar and purchased two...
[1979] GLR 262 | 1978-03-17
This is a suit for a declaration that the plaintiff, an infant, whose father is dead is the owner of a house at Teianshi in Labadi. In the statement of claim it is pleaded inter a lia that the infant plaintiff "brings...
[1979] GLR 10 | 1978-03-07
The a ppellants were a rraigned before the Circuit Court Cape Coast, on varying charges of defrauding by false pretences under section 131 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29), and a betment of defrauding by false...
2 | 1978-02-28
The a pplicants are detainees incarcerated in Nsawam Medium Security Prisons under the Preventive Custody Decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 2), s. 2, which provides: "2. The National Redemption Council may, by executive...
Citation pending | 1978-02-17
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 –...
[1979] GLR 181 | 1978-02-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 In support of his objection, Mr. Quaye, counsel for the defendants, referred to the case of Ejura Farms (Ghana) Ltd. v. Harlley [1976] 1 G.L.R. 158,...
Citation pending | 1978-02-16
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...
[1979] GLR 246 | 1978-02-16
This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court Grade I D., Accra, constituted by his worship Mr. S. A. Afful. The district court dismissed the claim of the a ppellant for ¢701.20 a rrears of rent and an...
Citation pending | 1978-02-15
para 21(4)a of Sch 6 to the Finance Act 1965; (ii) that in any event the loan was a ‘ debt on a security ’ , whithin para 11(1)b of Sch 7 to the 1965 Act, and a ccordingly the loss on disposal of the loan, incurred by...
[1979] GLR 256 | 1978-01-30
The a ppellant stood trial on a charge of: possessing Indian hemp contrary to sections 47 (1) and 57 (1) of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act, 1961 (Act 64). The particulars of offence read: "Hamidu Moro, Arabic teacher: for...
61/99 | 1978-01-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The plaintiff issued this writ against the Managing Director of New Times Corporation and subsequently sought leave, which the court granted, to a mend...
[1979] GLR 270 | 1978-01-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 7 At the close of the evidence on the voir dire counsel for the Republic, Mr. Agudetse. submitted that the prosecution having. produced witnesses to state...
Citation pending | 1977-11-18
Held – Commitment fees and interest incurred in providing finance by which machinery and plant were to be a cquired was not capital expenditure ‘ on the provision of ’ the plant and machinery, within s 41(1)(a) of the...
ERHC.76/P18/5 entitled Nana Kofi Asiamah II v. Nana Dasebre Akuamoah Boateng II has been a micably settled. Efforts are also being made to settle suit No. JC. ERHC/76/P.18/4 | 1977-11-15
Apaloo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant is the queenmother of Obomeng and the respondent is the Omanhene [p.915] of the Kwahu Traditional Are a. The Obomeng stool is a sub -stool subservient to...
Citation pending | 1977-11-08
Damages – Contract and tort – power of court to enter judgment for damages for breach of contract and tort – Facts giving rise to breach of contract also constituting breach of common law duty of care – Sale of house...
Citation pending | 1977-10-13
Injunction – Exclusion of party from matrimonial home – County court – Respondent having proprietary interest in home – Applicant having no proprietary interest – Man and woman living together as husband and wife – Man...
Citation pending | 1977-07-28
Income tax – Case stated – Jurisdiction of court to hear and determine questions of law and make a ppropriate order – Assessment under wrong case – Discretion of court to deal with a ssessment on basis of case under...
2 Account at the Bank of England not later than Wednesday next | 1977-07-13
This was an appeal by the Agriculatural Mortgage Corporation Ltd ( ‘ the company ’ ) against an order of Walton J ([1975] 2 AllER 155, [1975] 2 WLR 1027, [1975] STC 287), made on 28 February 1975, whereby it was...
Citation pending | 1977-05-12
by swelling and shrinking of the subsoil. In February 1962 the council a pproved building plans for the erection of a two storey block of maisonettes which were deposited under the byelaws. The a pproved plans showed,...
Citation pending | 1977-04-28
The defendants, an American company, were part insurers of the plaintiffs ’ fleet of vessels under a contract of insurance which had been negotiated and issued in America and under which all premiums and claims were...