Usuman Acida V. The King (1950) LJR-WACA
Usuman Acida V. The King (1950) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Power of a Judge to set aside the decision of a Native Court and to order a re-trial—Exercise of such power in respect of Mohammedan Courts under section 5 (2) of the Native Courts Ordinance—Attorney-General’s direction to Supreme Court […]
Amoah Ababio & Ors V. John Edmund Turkson (1950) LJR-WACA
Amoah Ababio & Ors V. John Edmund Turkson (1950) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Interlocutory or final judgment.–Test to be applied. Facts The defendants were the applicants. This was an application to vary an order refusing unconditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council on the grounds that the judgment […]
Azumah & Anor V. The King (1950) LJR-WACA
Yaw Azumah and Wame Kehodo V. The King (1950) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal What is an accomplice—Mere fact of standing by when crime committed is not sufficient—Summing-up of defence—Duty of Judge considered—Principles on which Court will interfere with Jury’s verdict explained. About Case The appellants appealed against their convictions […]
Zik Enterprises Ltd. & Ors V. The Hon. Obafemi Awolowo (1955) LJR-WACA
Zik Enterprises Ltd. & Ors V. The Hon. Obafemi Awolowo (1955) Torts—Libel—Whether article refers to plaintiff—Whether language supports innuendo or extrinsic evidence proves it.Appeals in Civil Cases—Test of intervention in damages.Damages—Test ofintervention on appeal. Facts The respondent as plaintiff brought two suits for libel against the respective appellants as defendants; they were consolidated, and the […]
Kwabena Yeboah V. The Queen (1954) LJR-WACA
Kwabena Yeboah V. The Queen (1954) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Committal for trial for misdemeanour—Informationfor murder—Adjournment oftrial without reason recorded—Crown not calling someone who had confessed to the murder—Crown not calling all witnesses on back of information.Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 10), section 192^4 ; section 240. […]
Kwarena Yeboah V. Chief Kofi Taibil (1952) LJR-WACA
Kwarena Yeboah V. Chief Kofi Taibil (1952) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Appeals from Native Court—Power to re-hear—Judgment of Native Court set aside—Native Courts (Colony) Ordinance, 1944, section 50. Facts The above section authorises the appeal Court, namely the Court hearing an appeal from the Native Court, to re-hear the […]
Tetteh Worbi & Ors V. Adamali Asamanyuah & Ors (1955) LJR-WACA
Tetteh Worbi & Ors V. Adamali Asamanyuah & Ors (1955) – consolidated LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Costs—Discretion—General Procedure Rules, Order 7, rule 3, paragraph 2—Trial Judge deciding on costs under a misapprehension offact.Appeals in Civil Cases—Costs in Court below—Intervention by Court of Appeal. Facts The above rule confers on […]
Chief Joseph Wobo & Ors V. The Attorney-General (1952) LJR-WACA
Chief Joseph Wobo & Ors V. The Attorney-General (1952) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Real property—Agreement to sell—Part performance—Agreement to accept a sum and an annual amount for ever.Contract—Abandonment of—Question of evidence. Facts Appellants, as plaintiffs suing asrepresentatives of certain people and successors of former Chiefs and headmen, sued for […]
T. O. Williams & Anor V. J. T. Nelson Cole & Ors. (1952) LJR-WACA
T. O. Williams & Anor V. J. T. Nelson Cole & Ors. (1952) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Mortgage—Sale at auction—No conveyance—Purchaser not taking possession—Mortgagor’s Claim to possession against outsider in possession. Facts The owner mortgaged his property to one S; both mortgagor and mortgagee died later. One of the […]
Kwabena Wiafe & Ors V. The Queen (1953) LJR-WACA
Kwabena Wiafe & Ors V. The Queen (1953) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Nature of corroboration of accomplice not explained—Where no miscarriage of justice—Discrepancies in evidence—Whether verdict unreasonable. Facts In spite of a favourable summing up, the jury, after deliberating for nearly an hour, returned a unanimous […]