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Citation pending | 1965-07-22
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial Home – Discretion of court – Conveyance to spouses jointly – Trust for sale and proceeds of sale etc for grantees as joint tenants – Property purchased out of husband ’ s...
Citation pending | 1965-07-14
A dangerous nip in a machine in the defendants ’ factory was not fenced; there was this a breach by them of the Factories Act, 1961, s 14(1)a. A finger of one of their employees in the factory, a boy of fifteen, was...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
In Evans v Evans ([1965] 2 AllER 789) which was first reported in the All England Law Reports the day after the hearing and judgment in this case, Cairns J held that complete refusal of sexual intercourse by a wife...
Citation pending | 1965-07-12
Magistrates – Husband and wife – Maintenance – Amount – General principle – Whether regard to be had to national a ssistance – National Assistance Act 1948(11 & 12 Geo 6 c 29), s 43 – Matrimonial Proceedings...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
The plaintiffs, BH Ltd were incorporated as a private company in 1953, and their principal business was that of developers of housing estates on land a cquired by other private companies formed by the plaintiff company...
Citation pending | 1965-07-05
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Customs duty – Court order that ship be a ppraised and sold – Claim by Commissioners of Customs and Excise for payment of import duty on ship – Condition on temporary...
Citation pending | 1965-07-02
This was an appeal by the Minister of Housing and Local Government from an order of Mocatta J dated 24 May 1965. The a pplicants, Ashbridge Investments, Ltd by originating motion under RSC, Ord 119, r 71, a pplied for...
Citation pending | 1965-06-24
The a ppellant was the proprietor of a club known as the Postal Bingo Club whose principal a ctivity was the playing of postal bingo each week. There were about 300,000 members of the club. An a pplicant for...
Citation pending | 1965-06-16
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of Buckley J dated 1 February 1965, dismissing the plaintiff ’ s action commenced by writ issued on 16 July 1964, against the first defendant who was at all material...
Citation pending | 1965-06-15
Per Curiam: all legal proceedings a ffecting status, not least those a ffecting legitimacy, should be the subject-matter of open and public trial; the fact that a court, when dealing with infants in a parental or a...
[1966] GLR 442 | 1965-05-07
The plaintiffs' claim is for a declaration of title to land, recovery of possession, and perpetual injunction. The action was taken against seven defendants. In their statement of claim, the plaintiffs a verred that...
[1966] GLR 572 | 1965-04-20
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. gave the reasons for the judgment of the court. [His lordship stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] In a rguing the appeal before us, each a ppellant, who had not the benefit of...
Citation pending | 1965-04-14
Contractors to do work on the exterior of a factory building sub-contracted part of the work, including the re-painting of the roof members and trusses. The re-painting had to be done from scaffolding, and the...
Citation pending | 1965-04-08
Income Tax – Foreign possessions – Income a rising from possessions out of the United Kingdom – Capital or income – Will of testatrix domiciled in the United States – Beneficiary in England entitled to a nnual...
I thought that we had good | 1965-04-02
The plaintiffs, who were a limited company whose principal a ctivity was brewing, owned a fleet of ships for the a ncillary purpose of transporting their wares. The ships were controlled by the plaintiffs ’ traffic...
3052 | 1965-03-25
Coast protection works were needed to protect a strip of land a long the sea shore from erosion. The land a long the sea shore had been developed, houses having been built whose gardens ran down to the shore. The strip...
Citation pending | 1965-03-10
Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Action in rem – Social insurance contributions – Ship registered under Italian flag sold in England and proceeds of sale in Admiralty court – Interveners as mortgagees obtained judgment in...
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
[1966] GLR 259 | 1965-01-25
Crabbe J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. All the a ppellants in this case were convicted on various counts by Apaloo J.S.C., sitting with a ssessors, in the High Court of Ghana held at
Citation pending | 1965-01-22
In 1905, the deceased married his first wife; there was no child of the marriage until, in 1921, twins were born, of whom the defendant was one. The deceased a lways refused to acknowledge the defendant as his child....
Citation pending | 1965-01-20
Highway – Street – Private street works – Resolution of local authority to execute street works – Discharge of onus of proof on local authority that the road is a private street – Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will 4 c 50),...
Citation pending | 1965-01-19
The commissioners held that the test of charge and care was satisfied for the year 1957 – 58, towards the end of which the younger child began to go to school, and that it was not a condition of an a llowance being...
[1964] GLR 715 | 1964-12-28
This is an appeal wherein the a ppellant who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing before the District Court, Accra, on 25 November 1964, and was duly convicted and sentenced to a fine of £G25 or three months'...
[1964] GLR 712 | 1964-12-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 relative in one of his children's room. When he protested to the respondent she thereupon raised a stool above his head and said "I will kill you."...
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
The defendant insurer, Dudley Franklin Hepburn, a Lloyd ’ s underwriter, a ppealed against the judgment of Roskill J dated 29 April 1964, for £136 5s 10d with interest and costs in favour of the plaintiff carriers, A...
Citation pending | 1964-12-18
Held – (i) where, as in the present case, there was direct evidence by the execution of a deed of mutual covenant that the vendor and the purchasers from him intended a building scheme, the court was not precluded from...
[1964] GLR 695 | 1964-12-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 defendants are farmers and made cocoa farms on various portions of the land at varying periods. The defendants do not all derive their title from one...
[1964] GLR 681 | 1964-12-18
Mills Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellants were convicted by Apaloo J. (as he then was), sitting with a ssessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court at Kumasi on 12 December 1963, for...
[1964] GLR 671 | 1964-12-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (d) That the plaintiff and those on whose behalf the plaintiff instituted this action are not the lawful children of the late L. T. C. Davies. (e) That...
Citation pending | 1964-12-15
In 1933 the respondent husband, who at all material times was domiciled and resident in Ceylon, married W., the marriage being a Christian marriage. In 1957 W left the respondent. In 1959 the respondent and P were...
[1964] GLR 663 | 1964-12-15
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against the conviction of the a ppellant by the High Court, Ho, for rape. The trial was conducted with a ssessors. Most of the facts in the case are...
Citation pending | 1964-12-11
Pursuant to leave granted by the court, the a pplicants, Nana Kwabena Buadee and Nana Kwamina Faibill III, a sked for an order of prohibition directed to the judicial committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs...
Citation pending | 1964-12-09
This was an action by the plaintiff, Michael Beiscak, against the defendants, the National Coal Board, for damages for personal injuries which he suffered on 7 November 1959, as a result of a fall of a portion of the...
[1964] GLR 661 | 1964-12-09
This is an a pplication by the defendants herein praying this court, (a) to stay these proceedings for a period of one month until [p.662] previous costs a warded against the plaintiff in a similar action in favour of...
Citation pending | 1964-12-04
On 11 December 1964 the respondent was a ppointed a grade 1 class 1 teacher at a government school in British Guiana at a salary of $251 a month. Having failed to comply with requests to send her birth and a cademic...
[1964] GLR 656 | 1964-12-04
OF MILLS – ODOI J.S.C. Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted for the murder of his wife, Ekua Ntabeley, at the village of Aiyim in the Western Region, on 24 September...
[1964] GLR 653 | 1964-12-04
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was found guilty by a jury of the murder of his wife one Amma Dagarti; he was a ccordingly convicted, and the only sentence a llowed by law was passed...
Citation pending | 1964-12-01
Two power-driven vessels, the Auspicity and the Dayspring, were a pproaching each other off the Point of Ayre in the Isle of Man on courses which at first involved no risk of collision. The Dayspring a ltered course to...
[1964] GLR 643 | 1964-11-27
This is an appeal from the decision of the Local Court of Sefwi -Wiawso which was delivered on 20 March 1964. The facts of the case are simple. The plaintiff is the chief of Enwhia, representing the stool of Enwhia and...
[1964] GLR 649 | 1964-11-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 there is no possible ground for supposing that the corporation will authorise their driver who would in turn authorise an unlicensed person to drive the...
Citation pending | 1964-11-26
The commissioners found that the ledger account was drawn up on the basis that the taxpayer company made a nnual payments out of capital receipts, and, in the circumstances of the case and in the absence of evidence to...
[1964] GLR 637 | 1964-11-24
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 been in his possession. Secondly, he a dmits that he did not deposit these a mounts. And as was said before, his brother was not even called to say if...
[1964] GLR 616 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the conviction of the a ppellant for murder by the High Court, Tamale. The unfortunate incident resulted from an a ltercation between the...
[1964] GLR 612 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant gave evidence for the prosecution on 21 November 1963, in a case entitled State v. Fynn and Another,1 (hereinafter referred to as the substantive...
[1964] GLR 598 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 10 November 1964 we a llowed the appeal in this case, quashed the conviction and the sentence passed upon the a ppellant, and a cquitted and discharged him. The...
[1964] GLR 602 | 1964-11-20
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 13 October 1964, we a llowed the appeal in this case and reserved our reasons for so doing; the following are the reasons for our decision. The a ppellant was...
[1964] GLR 622 | 1964-11-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (c) Whether or not the defendant has any claim or any right at all over properties bought by him, to the plaintiff during their stay together. (d)...
Citation pending | 1964-11-16
Divorce – Estoppel – Paternity of child – Order in divorce suit for custody of child – Child subsequently petitioning for declaration of legitimacy – Husband in divorce suit denying paternity – Order for custody not a...
Citation pending | 1964-11-13
Husband and Wife – Property – Matrimonial home – Discretion of court – Wife sole owner – Improvements by husband – Wife leaving husband and petitioning for divorce on grounds of cruelty – Husband seeking restitution of...
[1964] GLR 593 | 1964-11-10
Lassey J. [stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] With respect to the liability of the respondents to the a ppellant the evidence led at the trial was that after the settlement of the dispute...