Case Summaries Constitutional Law
A lot of ink has been spilt on parliamentary approval of agreements with the Government of Ghana in recent times. Rafts of Supreme Court decisions exist setting aside agreements entered into by foreign persons (natural and juridical) with the government of Ghana. The reason? – these agreements lacked...
The High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2004 (C.I 47) require a person against whom a writ of summons has been issued to file a notice of appearance in person or through a lawyer within 8 days. The appearance may be conditional or unconditional. Some lawyers are however in the habit of entering conditional...
Most litigators know this. The rules of court are simply handmaidens and not mistresses. Whiles this statement may be true to a large extent, the Supreme Court in Standard Bank Offshore Trust Company Limited (Substituted by Dominion Corporate Trustees Limited) v. National Investment Bank and 2 Ors[1]...
Who gets what in divorce battles can be one of the most difficult decisions a judge will have to make. These proceedings tend to be acrimonious, as each spouse is bent on benefitting as much as possible from the property distribution to be made by the court. But the bases for such distributions have...
Source:www.azureviral.com Minerals are substances that occur naturally in the Earth’s crust. Minerals therefore form part of the land from which they are exploited. Legally, land includes not only the soil, but everything attached to it, whether attached by the course of nature as trees, herbage and...
The Supreme Court has got buyers of second-hand goods beaming with smiles. The Apex Court on 22 March 2016 in the case of Andreas Bschor GMBH & Co KG v Birim Wood Complex Limited & Another[1] held that the condition as to fitness for purpose implied by the Sale of Goods Act, 1963 (Act 137) applies...
On 30 November 2016, the Court of Appeal, Accra in Republic v Tsatsu Tsikata held that the grant of a presidential pardon to a convict did not take away the constitutional right of that convict to appeal against his conviction on its merits. Tsatsu Tsikata, the Appellant, was found guilty of willfully...
I.C.T Telecommunication and Media
Have you ever started typing a text to someone in the heat of the moment when you’re filled with rage over an issue and you go on a full-blown rant? Then just before you hit send, you get a glimpse of sanity or at least the possible repercussions of sending that message; so in that moment, you simply...