Judgements

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 4 MAY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO CJ, ACOLATSE AND APALOO JJSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC Apaloo JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The facts of the case are, in the main, not in dispute and can be stated briefly. The appellants (who I shall hereafter call the plaintiffs) are […]

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 4 MAY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO CJ, ACOLATSE AND APALOO JJSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC Apaloo JSC delivered the judgment of the court. In order to appreciate the legal argument which was addressed to us on this appeal, it is necessary to state the facts which were found by the

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 1 MAY 1964 Before: OLLENNU, APALOO AND AKAINYAH JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The appellant-applicant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of assault under section 84 of the Criminal Code, 1960,1 and was

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 1ST MAY 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND APALOO JJSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. Both appellants were on 19 March 1963 convicted before the circuit court of stealing and the first appellant alone was convicted on eleven counts of falsification of accounts.

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 1 MAY 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND APALOO JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. We allowed the appeal in this case on 3 April 1964 after hearing the submissions of counsel, and now proceed to give our reasons. The appellant was convicted

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 21 APRIL 1964 Before: BOISON J JUDGMENT OF BOISON J The plaintiff, trading under the name and style of Jimoh Aremu and Brothers, sued the defendants for: (1) can injunction to restrain the defendants, their agents and servants from infringing the plaintiff’s said trademarks and in particular from

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 20 APRIL 1964 Before: DJABANOR J JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J I do not know that I can say much about the plaintiff, but I can certainly say that her mother, the late Sussana Adu was a hardworking and dutiful woman. On 10 June 1961 at about seven or

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 20 APRIL 1964 Before: DJABANOR J. JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J. On the afternoon of Sunday, 3 February 1963, the plaintiff Mr. I. R. Aboagye, then district magistrate at Bolgatanga in the Upper Region of Ghana was entertaining friends in his bungalow. He and a Mr. Mensah, a detective

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 20 APRIL 1964 Before: DJABANOR J. JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J. On the afternoon of Sunday, 3 February 1963, the plaintiff Mr. I. R. Aboagye, then district magistrate at Bolgatanga in the Upper Region of Ghana was entertaining friends in his bungalow. He and a Mr. Mensah, a detective

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 3 APRIL 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J This small appeal has brought into focus the difficult question of the punishment or sentence of co-defendants; the fact that co-defendants have been punished at the same time draws attention to any discrimination between them. In this case