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[1964] GLR 262 | 1964-05-01
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. Both a ppellants were on 19 March 1963 convicted before the circuit court of stealing and the first a ppellant a lone was convicted on eleven counts of falsification...
[1964] GLR 253 | 1964-04-21
The plaintiff, trading under the name and style of Jimoh Aremu and Brothers, sued the defendants for: (1) an injunction to restrain the defendants, their a gents and servants from infringing the plaintiff's said trade...
[1964] GLR 248 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 negligent driving of the said driver Yaw Appiah, and that Sussana Adu died as a result of the injuries she suffered from the a ccident. The defendants...
[1964] GLR 242 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 Then the bottles go to the brush section of the washing machine. A brush is introduced into the bottles and washed out and sprayed with water. Then the...
[1964] GLR 239 | 1964-04-03
This small appeal has brought into focus the difficult question of the punishment or sentence of co -defendants; the fact that co -defendants [p.240] have been punished at the same time draws a ttention to any...
[1964] GLR 234 | 1964-03-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 On or about the 29 June 1961, the plaintiff was involved in a motor a ccident while travelling in vehicle No. AN. 293 driven by one Kofi Fofie. The a...
Citation pending | 1964-03-17
This was an action by the plaintiff, Alexander Baxter, against his employers, the first defendants, Central Electricity Generating Board, and the second defendants, International Combustion Co Ltd for damages for...
[1964] GLR 138 | 1964-02-29
This appeal is against a judgment dated 13 April 1962 of the High Court, Kumasi, (Djabanor J.) by which, upon the plaintiff's claim "for the court to cause the correct boundary between the plaintiff and the defendant...
[1964] GLR 100 | 1964-02-29
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 11 February 1963. That judgment a warded damages in favour of the plaintiff -respondent against the defendant -a ppellant as a result of injuries...
[1964] GLR 755 | 1964-02-29
The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) brought an action against Larbi Armah (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) and Amartey Laryea (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellant)...
[1964] GLR 95 | 1964-02-29
On 8 January 1963, the High Court, Accra, made absolute, a decree nisi which it granted in favour of the petitioner -respondent dissolving the latter's marriage with the a pplicant. The husband who is the present a...
[1964] GLR 119 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the High Court, holden at Sunyani, given in favour of the respondent, hereinafter called the plaintiff, for a declaration of...
163 | 1964-02-29
The incidents which led to the action resulting in this appeal are scarcely in dispute, and they are these: The parties entered into negotiation for the sale and purchase of a plot of land with the building thereon in...
[1964] GLR 122 | 1964-02-29
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by a jury before Akiwumi J. sitting at the criminal session of the High Court held at Sekondi on 14 March 1963, for the murder of one...
[1964] GLR 112 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted of murder by the High Court, Kumasi, upon the verdict of a jury. The victim of the offence was one Akua Nyarko a wife of the a ppellant....
[1964] GLR 78 | 1964-02-29
The a ppellant, hereinafter called the plaintiff, sued the first respondent, hereinafter called the first defendant, in the High Court, Accra, and claimed declaration of title, recovery of possession, damages for...
[1964] GLR 128 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiff, respondent in this appeal, is successor to one Kwame Num, late of Bomaa, and the defendants, the a ppellants, are children of the said Kwame Num who...
[1964] GLR 70 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by the High Court, Sekondi, of the murder of his wife, one Afua Ampomah. The crime was committed in the village of Kramokrom on the night...
[1964] GLR 65 | 1964-02-29
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was charged with murdering his wife and was convicted of this crime at the criminal session of the High Court held at Ho at a trial before Siriboe...
[1964] GLR 90 | 1964-02-29
These cross -a ppeals came from the High Court, Kumasi, presided over by Djabanor J. in a case in which the plaintiffs claimed against the defendants a declaration of title to a large tract of land situate and lying at...
[1964] GLR 174 | 1964-02-29
This appeal is against a judgment dated 11 May 1962 of the High Court, Sunyani, whereby the respondent's claim was upheld, the substance of which was that two cocoa farms described in the writ and statement of claim...
[1964] GLR 718 | 1964-02-28
This appeal is against a final judgment dated 17 June 1963, and a consequential interlocutory judgment dated 26 June 1963 by the High Court, Accra, whereby the court upheld the plaintiff's claim for damages and other...
A3737667 still in force under which he insured his car a Wolseley saloon No. AG. 8889 for | 1964-02-21
The a pplicants in this a pplication seek an order othis court to set a side the a ward of the umpire in an a rbitration on three grounds that is to say; (a) The a rbitrators did not deliver to any party to the a...
[1964] GLR 56 | 1964-01-31
The plaintiff is the brother of the late Sobhy Baksmaty who died in Accra on 19 April 1963 and the defendant is his widow by whom he had six children, five girls and one boy. By another marriage the deceased had a...
[1964] GLR 54 | 1964-01-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 This is an appeal from the ruling of the learned circuit judge when he held against the a ppellant that the bail bond which he entered into to secure...
[1964] GLR 52 | 1964-01-27
In this appeal counsel for the Commissioner of Police has a rgued that there was no right of appeal from the decision of the circuit court judge in this matter to the High Court and in support of his a rgument [p.53]...
[1964] GLR 45 | 1964-01-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 issue: See Halsbury's Laws of England (3rd ed.), Vol. 24, p. 107, para. 198. In Adam v. Ward,1 Lord Dunedin stated the principle thus: ... if there is...
[1964] GLR 40 | 1964-01-27
Blay J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Land Court, Cape Coast, presided over by S. A. Attoh, Esquire, Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, as he then was, whereby...
[1964] GLR 28 | 1964-01-20
The a ppellant in this action has a ppealed to this court against the judgment of Mrs. Jiagge J. dated 13 April 1962 by which the learned judge ordered in favour of the respondent company, the recovery of Albion Tipper...
[1964] GLR 34 | 1964-01-20
Sarkodee -Adoo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The issue for determination in this appeal is whether the transaction between the predecessors of the parties was an absolute sale or a pledge in respect of a...
[1964] GLR 23 | 1964-01-08
Attention Mr. Fruoh Dear Sir, In one of our periodic checks for contamination of product, especially of motor spirit, a sample was removed from vehicle WE 5974 on 13th April, [p.25] 1963, against D/N 23508. A...
[1966] GLR 202 | 1963-12-12
Bruce -Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against a conviction for murder dated 12 December 1963, at the Criminal Session, Tamale. The facts as put up by the prosecution are that the a...
Citation pending | 1963-04-23
Solicitor – Costs – Payment by solicitor personally – Notice of complaint and opportunity to answer it – Order set a side in absence of such notice or opportunity – Supreme Court Costs Rules, 1959, r 8(1)(c), (2).
Citation pending | 1963-03-06
It is sufficient to constitute the offence of wilfully obstructing the free passage a long a highway contrary to the Highways Act, 1959, s 121(1)a that the a ccused, without lawful authority or excuse, intentionally...
Citation pending | 1963-02-21
Although the contract of membership of a trade union may be the only contract between a member and the union, yet if that contract provides for possible employment by the union, such employment will be employment under...
Citation pending | 1963-02-13
Tribunal – Tribunal of inquiry – Evidence – Newspaper reporter – Refusal to disclose source of information of newspaper report – Whether a question which tribunal might legally require him to answer – Relevance –...
I suggested | 1963-01-25
The terms of reference of a tribunal set up by warrant of the Home Secretary and to which the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, a pplied, were to inquire into the circumstances in which offences under the...
Citation pending | 1962-12-20
Infant – Maintenance – Divorce Division of the High Court – Practice – Application – Leave of judge – Claim not included in wife ’ s petition – Whether leave needed – Rule 43(3) ultra vires Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950...
Citation pending | 1962-12-13
Privy Council Ceylon – Witness – Perjury – Summary sentence as for contempt of court – Need to make clear substance of a lleged offence, so that witness shall have opportunity to answer the charge – Those parts of the...
Citation pending | 1962-12-07
The taxpayers a ppealed to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax against an income tax a ssessment for 1956 – 57 under Sch D to the Income Tax Act, 1952, in the sum of £850,000 in respect of profits from their...
Citation pending | 1962-11-16
In this case the husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s desertion. The wife had left the husband in March, 1959, and had caused a summons to be issued in the magistrates ’ court on her complaint...
Citation pending | 1962-11-15
a finance company, a ccepted the transaction and entered into the hire-purchase a greement. The hiring was for twenty-four months. The delivery form included an a cknowledgment by G that he had examined the lorry and...
Citation pending | 1962-07-26
Privy Council – Australia – New South Wales – Licence – Mining licence – “Right” to mine for magnesite – Non-exclusive licence – Whether licence terminable at will – Whether dated notice required.
Citation pending | 1962-07-16
Restrictive Trade Practices – Court – Contempt of court – Proceedings no longer pending – Subsequent victimisation of witness against Federation – Witness removed from office – Whether removal constituted a contempt of...
Citation pending | 1962-07-06
The plaintiff, Raymond Gerald Barry, claimed damages against the defendants for personal injuries caused by their a lleged negligence and breach of statutory duty under the Factories Act, 1937, s 23(1). The facts are...
[1964] GLR 162 | 1962-06-05
This appeal is against a decision of Charles J. dated 5 June 1962 in the Sekondi High Court whereby he gave judgment against the plaintiff -a ppellant (hereinafter called shortly the a ppellant) dismissing his claim...
[1964] GLR 739 | 1962-05-25
This appeal is brought against a judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, reversing a judgment delivered by the Kumasi East Local Court in favour of the a ppellant, the plaintiff in the said local court. The a ppellant is...
Citation pending | 1962-05-24
A judge sitting a lone at the trial of an action for defamation should not take into account, in reduction of damages that he a wards, the fact that he has expressed a favourable opinion of the plaintiff in his...
Citation pending | 1962-05-18
I agree with the reasons in the judgment which my brother Akainyah is about to read for our a llowing this appeal. It is not necessary to recapitulate the facts in this case; they are clearly and exhaustively stated in...
Citation pending | 1962-05-02
Charity – Uncertainty – Hospital – Bequest by will of testator who died in 1938 to “hospital” and/or hospitals and/or charitable institutions – Whether gift a valid charitable gift.