Category: Case Summaries
Airline Passenger’s Responsibility to Be On Time
An Isreali magistrate court has dismissed an action brought by a passenger who missed his flight. The court pointed out that it was the responsibility of ... Read More
English Court Rejects Tullow’s Force Majeure Defence to Contract Termination
The Business and Property Courts of England and Wales in the case of Seadrill Ghana Limited v Tullow Ghana Limitedhas rejected a force majeure defence ... Read More
Why a Properly Drafted Third Party Guarantee Agreement Matters
The Supreme Court in Clipper Leasing Corporation vs Attorney General & Ghana Airways in Liquidationhas highlighted the need for properly drafted third party guarantee agreements ... Read More
Foreign Ownership of Freehold Interest in Ghana
The Supreme Court in the case of Martin J Verdose v Patricia Abena Verdose-Kuranchie has affirmed the constitutional limitation on the ownership of freehold interests ... Read More
Can a Law Firm Sign a Legal Process? – Extra Perspective
On 7 may 2017, the Ghana Law Hub published an article under the heading, “Can a law firm sign a legal process?”In that article, Y. ... Read More
Can a Law Firm Sign a Legal Process?
The High Court presided over by Justice Bright Mensah held, in “In the matter of Kaneshie Drivers Association and in the matter of an application ... Read More
Secret Phone Recording Violation of Right to Privacy
The Supreme Court in the case of Raphael Cubagee v Michael Yeboah Asare & 2 Ors has declared the secret recording of a telephone conversation ... Read More
Can an unsigned document give rise to legal consequences?
The Supreme Court in the case of John Affuah & Another v General Developments Company Limited has held that an unsigned document may give rise ... Read More
Issuing Disclaimers about Ex-Employees – Legit?
Take a newspaper. Flip through the pages randomly. You may well see an employer-sponsored notice in there together with a photograph informing the public that ... Read More
What’s in a Signature?
Remember the last time you signed a document? You must have felt so good. Or probably invincible. Your signature must have felt like a magic ... Read More