Plaintiff, Mr Kelsen had a lease of a tobacco dealer’s shop in London. The Imperial Tobacco Co had an advertising board that projected into the air and above the leased property. Mr Kelsen initially had no complaints, but subsequently demanded that the board be removed. The Company refused, arguing that the interference by the signage […]
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Plaintiffs, a couple owned a land near the famous Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. They discovered that there was another such spectacular cave beneath their building. They capitalized on it – branding it the “Great Onyx Cave”, built a hotel around it and charged tourists for entry. Unbeknownst to them, while the entrance to the cave
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Case Brief: Bernstein of Leigh (Baron) v Skyviews & General Ltd The defendant, Skyviews took aerial photographs of houses and then offered to sell copies of the photographs to residents of the houses. On receiving such offer to buy a photograph of his country house in Leigh, Kent, Lord Bernstein took exception, and turned down
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Toure v Baako[1] This is a case decided by the Supreme Court having travelled from the High Court through the Court of Appeal. Facts: The plaintiff, in the High Court brought an action for the following reliefs: Declaration of title, and recovery of possession of all that piece and parcel of land situate lying and
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SEIDU v. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK [1992] 1 GLR 536 The defendant-bank in 1983 advanced a loan to OY & Co. to purchase a tractor. The tractor was registered at the licensing office only in the name of OY & Co. By a deed of assignment, exhibit 1, OY & Co. assigned the tractor for a
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Facts: In this case, the plaintiffs, members of a registered co-operative union, broke off from the union and formed a limited liability company. The object of the company was to distil locally manufactured gin – akpeteshie. Officers of the co-operative union prevented them from distilling the gin. They were also harassed, and their products were
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Facts: The plaintiffs, a registered political party, sued in the Supreme Court under article 2(1) of the Constitution, 1992 for a declaration, inter alia, that the Council of Indigenous Business Associations Law, 1993 (PNDCL 312), was inconsistent with and in contravention of some specified articles of the Constitution, 1992 including articles 35(1) and 37(2)(a) and
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Facts: In 1928 the claimant, Mrs Donoghue argued that she had suffered shock and gastroenteritis (upset stomach) after drinking ginger beer from an opaque bottle out of which a decomposing snail had fallen when the dregs were poured. A friend had bought her the drink and so the claimant was unable to sue in her
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Facts: The defendants, a local authority had failed to ensure that building work complied with the plans, and as a result the building had inadequate foundations. The claimant, a tenant who had leased the property after it had changed hands many times, claimed that the damage to the property threatened health and safety and sued
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Statement of Facts: In this case, the plaintiff essentially sought a declaration that a certain agreement -The Defence Co-operation, the Status of United States Forces and Access to and Use of Agreed Facilities and Areas in the Republic of Ghana contravened the constitution because it was not duly executed (unsigned) and that additionally, the provisions
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