Judgements

DIVISION: IN THE SUPREME COURT, ACCRA DATE: 15TH MAY, 1961 BEFORE: VAN LARE, SARKODEE-ADOO AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C. NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS APPEAL from a judgment of the Land Court, Kumasi by the Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas (D.E. Gwira, esq.) delivered on the 11th February, 1960, reversing the decision of the Asantehene’s “A2” Court and […]

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 15TH MAY, 1961 Before: KORSAH, C.J., VAN LARE AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C.   JUDGMENT OF AKIWUMI, J.S.C. Akiwumi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. [His lordship read the plaintiffs’ claim and continued:] the second plaintiff, a paternal nephew of the first plaintiff joined the first plaintiff in instituting this

DIVISION: IN THE SUPREME COURT DATE: 15TH MAY, 1961 BEFORE: KORSAH, D.J., VAN LARE AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C. NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS APPEAL from the judgment of Sarkodee-Adoo, J., in the Land Court, Accra, delivered on the 25th May, 1960, which reversed the decision of the Akyem Abuakwa Native Court “A” and restored the decision of the

DIVISION: IN THE SUPREME COURT DATE: 12TH MAY, 1961 BEFORE: VAN LARE, SARKODEE-ADOO AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C. CASES REFERRED TO (1) R. v. Aves [1950] 2 All E.R. 330; 34 Cr. App.R. 159, C.C.A. (2) R. v. Garth [1949] 1 All E.R. 733; 33 Cr. App.R. 100, C.C.A. NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS APPEAL against conviction for receiving

DIVISION: IN THE SUPREME COURT DATE: 12TH MAY, 1961 BEFORE: VAN LARE, SARKODEE-ADOO AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C. CASES REFERRED TO (1) Director of Public Prosecutions v. Smith [1961] A.C. 290; [1960] 3 W.L.R. 546; [1960] 3 All E.R. 161, H.L. (2) R.v. Ward [1956] 1 Q.B 351; [1956] 2 W.L.R. 423; [1956] 1 All E.R. 565.

DIVISION: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA DATE: 25TH APRIL, 1961 BEFORE: OLLENNU J. CASES REFERRED TO (1) Yardom v. Minta III (1926) F.C. ‘26-’29, 76 (2) Inyang v. Udo (1944) 10 W.A.C.A. 40. NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS APPLICATION by Isaac Akwei, father of the plaintiff and a complete stranger to the action, for a review of

DIVISION: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA DATE: 21ST APRIL, 1961 BEFORE: OLLENNU, J. CASE REFERRED TO Hanley v. Pease & Partners Ltd. [1915] 1 K.B.698 NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS Action for damages for wrongful dismissal. COUNSEL A.W. Acquaah for G.S. Lassey for the plaintiff. E.K. Akyea-Djamson for K. Ofosu-Asante for the defendants. JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J.

DIVISION: JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL DATE: 20TH APRIL, 1961 BEFORE: LORD RADCLIFFE, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM AND LORD GUEST NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS APPEAL (No. 34 of 1959) from the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal (Ollennu, J. dissenting) delivered on the 26th November, 1957 (unreported) which reversed the judgment of P. M.

DIVISION: SUPREME COURT DATE: (19TH APRIL, 1961) BEFORE: KORSAH, C.J., VAN-LARE AND SARKODEE-ADOO, JJ.S.C. HEADNOTES A clerical error in recording the names of panel members constituting the trial local court on the day a case was before them does not affect the validity of the judgment of the trial local court or its confirmation by

DIVISION: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA DATE: 17TH APRIL, 1961 BEFORE: OLLENNU, J. CASES REFERRED TO (1) London, Chatham & Dover Rly. v. South-East Railway (1885) 53 L.T. 109. (2) Everett v. Ribbands [1952] 2 Q.B. 198; [1952] 1 All E.R. 823. (3) Salomon v. Salomon & Co. [1897] A.C. 22, H.L. (4) Lee v.