Category: Case Summaries

Airline Passenger’s Responsibility to Be On Time

Airline Passenger’s Responsibility to Be On Time

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- July 26, 2018

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

English Court Rejects Tullow’s Force Majeure Defence to Contract Termination

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- July 9, 2018

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

Why a Properly Drafted Third Party Guarantee Agreement Matters

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- July 4, 2018

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

Foreign Ownership of Freehold Interest in Ghana

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- June 28, 2018

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

Submit List of All Those Arrested Without Warrant: High Court Orders Police

Submit List of All Those Arrested Without Warrant: High Court Orders Police

Y Edinam Cofie- May 14, 2018

The Human Rights Division of the High Court, Accra presided over by her Ladyship Gifty Agyei Addo J. in The Republic v Inspector General of ... Read More

Can a Law Firm Sign a Legal Process? – Extra Perspective

Can a Law Firm Sign a Legal Process? – Extra Perspective

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- May 10, 2018

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?

Can a Law Firm Sign a Legal Process?

Y Edinam Cofie- May 7, 2018

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

Secret Phone Recording Violation of Right to Privacy

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- April 16, 2018

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?

Can an unsigned document give rise to legal consequences?

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- April 12, 2018

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?

Issuing Disclaimers about Ex-Employees – Legit?

Samuel Alesu-Dordzi- April 5, 2018

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