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21/63. Agyeman for the defendants in suit No. 21/33. Amposah -Dadzie for the plaintiffs in suit No. 10/66. James Mercer for the defendant in suit No. 10/66. | 1969-01-14
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 In 1958 the first defendant, as the head of the stool family of Ewumaso in the Breman Asikuma Traditional Are a and as the representative of the stool...
[1968] GLR 1150 | 1968-12-23
This action a rose out of the negligent driving of an Austin omnibus No. WR 3646 by the first defendant on the Apowa — Takoradi motor road on or about 9 March 1965. The plaintiff's brother, Mark Kweku Bosumtwe, was...
[1968] GLR 1137 | 1968-12-23
Amissah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. This is a tragedy of errors. The real a ppellants in this case are the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd. who shall henceforth be referred to simply as the...
[1968] GLR 1120 | 1968-12-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 defendant a dmits that his family sued the plaintiff for the recovery of the house and the setting a side of the sale, he denies however that he a cted...
5 of 1st November 1956 or is the successor in title of such owner | 1968-12-17
The a ppellants were a British company which owned a mining property in Egypt worth more than £4,000,000. In 1956, after the Israel-Egypt hostilities, the property, together with other properties owned by British...
Citation pending | 1968-12-17
This was an appeal by Mohammed Avais, against the judgment of the Court of Appeal (Lord Denning MR, and Diplock LJ; Lord Upjohn dissenting), dated 13 October 1967, and reported [1967] 3 AllER 987, reversing the...
Citation pending | 1968-12-10
Negligence – Contributory negligence – Appeal – Apportionment of liability – Principle on which a ppellate court will intervene – Apportionment by trial judge not interfered with save for error in principle or where...
Citation pending | 1968-12-05
Magistrates – Custody – Breach by father of custody order in favour of mother – Committal of father to prison for fixed term – Sentence suspended – Refusal to grant stay of execution – Power of Divisional Court to...
[1968] GLR 1083 | 1968-12-03
On 21 September 1968, the a ppellant herein was put before the Circuit Court, Takoradi, and he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to steal contrary to sections 23 (1) and 124 (1) of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act...
[1968] GLR 1058 | 1968-11-28
This is an a pplication for leave to appeal against the ruling of his worship J.F.S. Hansen, Esquire, delivered in these extradition proceedings on Thursday, 5 September 1968. In that ruling, the learned magistrate...
Citation pending | 1968-11-21
Income Tax – Income – Copyright – Royalties – Death of author – Assignment by beneficiary under will – Liability of a ssignee to tax – Income Tax Act 1952(15 & 16 Geo 6 & 1 Eliz 2 c 10), Sch, D.
[1968] GLR 1032 | 1968-11-19
When this appeal came on for hearing before me on 11 November 1968 counsel for the plaintiff - respondent raised the preliminary point that there was no appeal in existence for this court to entertain. Counsel relied...
[1968] GLR 1027 | 1968-11-18
The a ppellant was charged with a ccepting a bribe after doing an act contrary to section 244 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). The particulars of offence read as follows: "On 16 July 1967 at Kankang in the Anyinam...
Citation pending | 1968-11-15
Practice – Rules of court – Setting down for trial – Speedy trial – Pleadings not closed – Application under inherent jurisdiction – Order that action be set down for trial in Part 1 of list, fixing date, and...
2 | 1968-11-15
Adade J.S.C. (read the first judgment at the invitation of Sowah C.J.). The defendant a ppellant is the owner of a large tract of forest land which he a cquired by purchase from the Andow stool, in the Central Region....
[1968] GLR 1016 | 1968-11-15
Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant in this case was convicted on 14 March 1967, before Sowah J. sitting with a jury, of the murder of one Wihemani Moshie a lias Osumanu Moshie, and was...
[1968] GLR 1009 | 1968-11-13
This a pplication is for an order staying execution of the judgment debt and costs ordered by the District Court Grade I, Kumasi, in the above -mentioned suit pending the hearing and determination of the appeal of the...
Citation pending | 1968-11-11
(ii) in respect of events occurring between 26 December 1963 and 27 March 1964, the a ctions of the British forces were not of such character that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the action, since (Lord Reid...
[1968] GLR 986 | 1968-11-07
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 I have considered with some care the evidence on record, and I am unable to say that the evidence justified an irresistible inference of a greement by...
[1968] GLR 993 | 1968-11-07
On 29 April 1968, the plaintiff obtained judgment against the defendants in a running -down action and was a warded damages of N¢5,684.00 together with N¢350.00 costs. The defendants have
[1968] GLR 985 | 1968-11-06
I reserved this matter for a ruling on the question whether counsel could unilaterally withdraw from a suit. I was concerned about the dangers inherent in permitting counsel unfettered facility to opt out of a suit....
4 Ordinary Dividend Share Account. I enclose herewith a cheque valued at | 1968-10-31
At an a nnual general meeting of R R on 2 July 1964, payment of 120 per cent dividend was a pproved. No date was fixed for payment, a lthough the directors expected payment to be made on July 24. Negotiations were...
Citation pending | 1968-10-30
ORMROD J. This is a very sad case for which I think nobody is to be blamed. It is a petition by Mr Ronald Henry Bennett a sking for a decree of nullity of marriage on the ground that at the time of the marriage the...
Citation pending | 1968-10-14
Husband and Wife – Maintenance – Application in High Court – Wilful neglect to maintain – Wife obtained maintenance order from magistrates – Husband paid as required by order – No change of circumstances – Matrimonial...
[1968] GLR 801 | 1968-10-11
The a ppellant was charged under section 8 (1) and (5) of the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1952 (No. 55 of 1952), for driving a vehicle without a licence in force. He pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced to four...
[1968] GLR 795 | 1968-10-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 tell calculated lies. He never a greed to sell the building at all, he states, yet he a greed, when a pproached by Mr. Korney, to discuss the sale with...
[1968] GLR 792 | 1968-09-25
By Paragraph (1) of his statement of claim, the plaintiff herein, positively a vers that he "is the lawful a ttorney and an elder of the Aforkpo family of Klepe and sues for and on behalf of Komla Anku and Sappeh Kwasi...
[1968] GLR 777 | 1968-09-12
The a ppellant was charged with stealing various a rticles to the value of N¢245.00, the property of one Afua Donkor and was convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour by the district...
Citation pending | 1968-09-12
This is an a pplication by Morkeh Whajah for an order of certiorari to remove into this court the order made by the respondent for the purpose of quashing it. It involves the correct a pplication of
[1968] GLR 768 | 1968-09-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 common purpose for or in committing or a betting a crime, whether with or without any previous concert or deliberation . . .” In Halsbury's Laws of...
[1968] GLR 753 | 1968-08-15
On 18 July 1968, the plaintiff by his solicitor caused an originating summons to issue from this registry directed to the defendants for the determination of the following question: "Whether or not the loan transaction...
[1968] GLR 742 | 1968-07-31
The first a ppellant was on 2 October 1967 convicted by the Circuit Court, Accra, of the offence of extorting money in the sum of N¢400.00 from one Amina Dagomba by means of threats, contrary to section 151 (1) of the...
[1968] GLR 704 | 1968-07-29
Apaloo J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 6 May 1968, the a ppellants were convicted before the High Court, Accra, of the offence of conspiracy to commit wilful oppression, the particulars of which a llege...
Citation pending | 1968-07-23
A third party cannot appeal against a judgment in favour of the plaintiff in the main action except by leave of the court, and the court can give leave whenever it thinks it just and convenient so to do (see p 511,...
Citation pending | 1968-07-19
Held – In determining whether a person was employed under a contract of service no single factor was of itself decisive and the court must have regard to the totality of the facts found in the particular case, and on...
Citation pending | 1968-07-16
This was an appeal by the defendants, Southwark Corporation from an order of Roskill J dated 16 November 1967, declaring that: (i) the following hereditaments at Dulwich, viz, the estate offices at the Old College,...
Citation pending | 1968-07-11
A club was formed after the 1914 – 18 war which became known as The British Legion Club, and the funds that it a ccumulated became the property of the members. Other than its rule book which contained no provision for...
Citation pending | 1968-07-05
This was an a pplication by originating summons dated 15 December 1967, by the plaintiff, Mr Jack Alford, against the defendants, Superior Developments Ltd for an order under s 10(8) of the Land Charges Act, 1925, that...
8656 | 1968-07-04
The a pplicant, Joseph Agyei Asiedu, is a sking this court to make an order restraining Ghana Fibre Industries Ltd. and [p.618] Mr. Frantisek Vaculik and Mr. J. B. Barnes, officers of the company from a ppointing a new...
[1968] GLR 595 | 1968-07-02
importance, this discrepancy ought to have been explained. But it was not. It could be said, though it was not, that the amount Salmon paid was ten per cent of the licenc e he should have got. But where findings are...
Citation pending | 1968-07-01
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 Akainyah v. The Republic [1968] G.L.R. 548, C.A., a case in which Mr. Adade was junior counsel, and them. What seems incontrovertible, is that this case...
[1968] GLR 1 | 1968-06-28
The plaintiff issued a writ of summons claiming N¢10,000.00 damages for injury to his right leg which was subsequently a mputated as a result of the negligence of the defendants on 15 November 1965. The defendants...
[1968] GLR 532 | 1968-06-24
The point in this appeal has been narrowed down to one simple issue, namely, whether a committal magistrate is entitled to discharge an a ccused person rather than commit him for trial if the evidence in the summary...
Citation pending | 1968-06-21
The parties, who were married in 1964, separated in November, 1967. There were no children of the marriage. The husband, a warehouseman, earning £14 15s per week net, continued to live in the matrimonial home and paid...
[1968] GLR 528 | 1968-06-17
The proceedings in this case were commenced with a writ filed in the High Court of Justice, Sekondi, on 4 May 1962. The plaintiffs are claiming against the defendants for: (a) A declaration of their title to all that...
Citation pending | 1968-05-30
The parties were married in 1960. In April, 1964, the mother left the husband, taking their daughter with her. In August, 1964, the daughter was returned to the father, and she lived thereafter happily with the father...
Citation pending | 1968-05-29
Distress – Rent – Impounding goods – Goods remaining in tenant ’ s house – Walking possession a greement – No visible sign that goods impounded – Hired goods re-taken by owner at tenant ’ s request – Owner ignorant of...
[1968] GLR 513 | 1968-05-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The a ccused is charged with rape contrary to section 97 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29), for that he on the morning of 2 March 1967 did carnally...
Citation pending | 1968-05-22
In 1963 the husband and the wife got to know as social friends the co-respondent and his wife. During 1964 the husband and the co-respondent ’ s wife were both working a way from home a good deal during the day, and...
Citation pending | 1968-05-08
In October, 1964, the wife left the husband and took all the children with her; they remained in her custody subsequently. At the time of leaving the husband, the wife telephoned to him and confessed that she had...