Legal Notes

FACTS A Financial Company entered into a contract with a Sole Proprietorship owned by Mr. K, where the Financial Company agreed to loan an amount of 10,000 to Mr. K, payable with interest. While the contract was subsisting, Mr. K entered into a contract with Mr. L, where the former agreed to acquire and take […]

In the case of ABDUL  RAHMAN OSUMANU GIWAH & ORS v BABA LADI (2013) SCGLR Benin, JSC giving the judgement of the court said “we have to examine the ownership of the houses; first as to the person who originally acquired them, then whether there was any gift inter vivos”. He went on further to

An action may be criminal or civil in nature. The 9 Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary defines “criminal action” as “An action instituted by the government to punish offenses against the public”. By the combined effect of Article 19 clauses 7, 11 and 12 of the 1992 Constitution, a criminal action (or a quasi -criminal

“(1) The Court, on its own motion or at the request of a party, (a) may exclude from the courtroom a witness so that the witness cannot hear or see the testimony of other witnesses; (b) may during a trial take the steps that it considers necessary and proper for preventing communication with or between

“No proceedings shall be defeated by reason of misjoinder or non- joinder of any party; and the Court may in any proceeding determine the issues or questions in dispute so far as they affect the rights and interests of the persons who are parties to the proceedings” Rule 5(1) of order 4 of the High

Yvonne ‘Nelson’ has written and Ghanaians are reading. What is left to be done is a legal and critical analysis of what has been written and what is being read. Yvonne ‘Nelson’ in her recent book “I AM NOT YVONNE NELSON” is said to have recalled her past, by making statements suggestive of a previous

This is the appropriate time to correct the erroneous impression, mostly created by the Ghanaian media, regarding the sharing of matrimonial properties after a divorce. There is no single statement of law, without any qualification, that matrimonial properties (properties acquired by spouses during marriage) should be shared equally or 50:50. The law is that matrimonial

Never be mistaken. A contract is a contract, whether written or oral. The only difference is that in proving a written contract, all you need do is to produce a copy of the written contract. Whereas, an oral contract can be proved by calling those who were present during the making of the oral contract

  Being a man, I cannot help but to share the following with my fellow men. I have come to realize that indeed we only live life once, but the life that a man lives, he liveth not for himself but for others. It is sad to know that most men have lived this life