Legal Notes are summaries of important legal concepts, principles, and rules. They provide a quick reference guide for lawyers, law students, and legal professionals to understand complex legal issues. Here are some Legal Notes on various topics:
– Contract Law: A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. Essential elements include offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, and capacity to contract.
– Tort Law: Tort is a civil wrong that causes harm or injury to another person. Key concepts include negligence, duty of care, breach, causation, and damages.
– Criminal Law: Criminal law deals with offenses against the state or society. Important concepts include mens rea (guilty mind), actus reus (guilty act), and strict liability.
– Family Law: Family law governs relationships between family members. Key concepts include marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, and spousal maintenance.
– Property Law: Property law deals with ownership and possession of property. Important concepts include real property, personal property, freehold, leasehold, and easements.
– Evidence Law: Evidence law governs the admissibility of evidence in court. Key concepts include relevance, reliability, hearsay, and privilege.
– Company Law: Company law regulates the incorporation, management, and winding up of companies. Important concepts include incorporation, shares, directors, and shareholders.
– Tax Law: Tax law governs the imposition and collection of taxes. Key concepts include income tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax, and tax deductions.
The Charge In summary trials-charge sheet in Indictment-Bill of Indictment Charging is the act of assigning particular offences in a statute to the behaviour of a suspect as evidenced from the facts as well as the witness documents contained in the docket prepared by the police investigator. Where it appears that a charge is defective […]
S 96 arrested without warrant, any stage of proceedings or conviction pending appeal, with or without sureties, HC or CC may direct bail of DC, conditions not be excessive. Accused-principal party, Surety-person giving undertaking, Undertaking-bail bond. If without sureties, then self-recognisance bail. Bail pending investigations as police recognisance bail. Bail pending trial same as during
By arraigning person before court on charge sheet or by summons (which is a doc in duplicate by magistrate or court officer as CJ may direct on a person to appear on a time and date) or by warrant (issued in suspect upon refusal to attend court on a summons, issued at any time including
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Only offences committed in the country except S 56 of Act 459 and S 46 of Act 30 committed in ship or aircraft registered in Gh Committed partly in Ghana and wholly outside where wholly outside is criminal in Gh, partly outside and partly inside republic, Government office or statutory officer commits offence outside punishable
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Art 88 minister, legal adviser, prosecution of civil and criminal cases for state, against him as defendant. 3 branches, Drafting, Prosecution-Director of Public Prosecutions, Civil-Solicitor General. S 3 of Amendment to Act 30 replace private persons with AG to initiate criminal proceedings. Law Officers Act S 1 AG officer is one not below rant of
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Police Service Act 1970 (Act 350) S 1 duty to prevent, detect crimes, apprehend criminals, maintain law and order, safety and property. S3 of Act 30 Police arrest and in the process of preventing escape may kill per Art 13, must tell of treason of arrest and right to a lawyer, taken to court within
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Art 33(1) HC enforcement of HR. Art 13 right to life, except sentence to death, lawful act of war, reasonable application of force Art 14(1) right to personal liberty except imprisonment, illness (2) right of arrested person, reason of arrest, lawyer, understandable language, notice of warrant s7. Attempted abortion not informed of right to lawyer,
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Robbery – Section 149(1) Dishonestly Receiving – Section 148(1) Defilement – Section 101 Falsification of Accounts–Section 140 Escape from lawful custody – Section 226 Dishonestly Receiving Property – Section 146 Rape – Section 97 Deceit of Public Officer – Section 251 Stealing – Section 124(1) Conspiracy – Section 23(1) Murder – Section 46 Attempt –
O 4r6 Death or bankruptcy, assignment of interest or devolution will not terminate proceedings so long as cause of action survives. Where sole P dies executors or personal representative, if one of Ds dies in joint proceedings, other Ds continue but if not joint his executors carry on, served with writ or proceed by which
Where a 3rd party in possession of a property prays court inviting interested persons in property to come and contest title to property so whoever acquires legal title have right to property, 2 or more make claim to property belonging to 3rd party who isn’t making any claim to property himself may commence proceedings by
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