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Alternative dispute resolution [2025] GHADC 107

Tetteh v Nyumutsy (GR/PP/DC/A4/5/2025)

Tetteh v Nyumutsy (GR/PP/DC/A4/5/2025) [2025] GHADC 107 (29 April 2025)

The Magistrate Court at Prampram adopted terms of settlement filed after court-connected ADR and entered them as a consent judgment.

  • Consent judgment
  • Settlement
  • Alternative-dispute-resolution
  • Consent-judgment
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Civil procedure [2025] GHAHC 21

KODUA VRS. DORA (C11/04/2024)

KODUA VRS. DORA (C11/04/2024) [2025] GHAHC 21 (17 March 2025)

The High Court set aside a District Court ruling enforcing a customary arbitration award, finding no voluntary submission and a breach of natural justice.

  • Setting aside arbitral awards
  • Customary arbitration
  • Natural justice
  • Miscarriage of justice
  • Customary-arbitration
  • Setting-aside-awards
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Defamation [2025] GHADC 48

GALLEY VRS. ABAKAH AND ANOTHERS (A5/02/2025.)

GALLEY VRS. ABAKAH AND ANOTHERS (A5/02/2025.) [2025] GHADC 48 (18 February 2025)

The District Court adopted a customary settlement in a defamation dispute and entered it as a consent judgment, ordering the defendants to pay GH₵600.

  • Defamation
  • Customary arbitration
  • Consent judgment
  • Enforcement of settlement
  • Customary-arbitration
  • Consent-judgment
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Civil procedure KUTTIN V ASAMOAH (A2/37/2023) [2024] GHADC 525 (18 October 2024)

KUTTIN V ASAMOAH (A2/37/2023)

KUTTIN V ASAMOAH (A2/37/2023) [2024] GHADC 525 (18 October 2024)

The District Court dismissed a claim for reimbursement of customary arbitration costs, finding no binding arbitration award and insufficient proof of the defendant's consent.

  • Arbitration costs
  • Customary arbitration
  • Negotiated settlement
  • Burden of proof
  • Customary-arbitration
  • Negotiated-settlement
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Civil procedure Kpogo And 2 Others Vrs Avornyo And 2 Others (E12/21/2023) [2024] GHAHC 233 (30 July 2024)

Kpogo And 2 Others Vrs Avornyo And 2 Others (E12/21/2023)

Kpogo And 2 Others Vrs Avornyo And 2 Others (E12/21/2023) [2024] GHAHC 233 (30 July 2024)

The arbitral award could not operate as estoppel per rem judicatam because the proceedings were not conducted with fairness, impartiality, or full participation of both parties, and the statutory requirements for jurisdiction were not met after the plaintiffs' challenge. The award lacked finality and could not bar subsequent litigation.

  • Estoppel per rem judicatam
  • Customary arbitration
  • Finality of arbitral awards
  • Jurisdiction of arbitral panels
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Property law NEEBIR VRS ANTWI (C1/2/24) [2024] GHACC 73 (22 February 2024)

NEEBIR VRS ANTWI (C1/2/24)

NEEBIR VRS ANTWI (C1/2/24) [2024] GHACC 73 (22 February 2024)

The Circuit Court at Mpraeso adopted a mediated settlement as a consent judgment, setting terms for continued cocoa cultivation, produce-sharing, and later division of the farm.

  • Land dispute
  • Mediation
  • Consent judgment
  • Farm tenancy
  • Land-dispute
  • Consent-judgment
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Criminal law [2023] GHAHC 607

REPUBLIC VRS. ABOAGYE (E12/127/2023)

REPUBLIC VRS. ABOAGYE (E12/127/2023) [2023] GHAHC 607 (8 November 2023)

The High Court partly allowed an appeal, set aside a mediation settlement purporting to dissolve a marriage, and sent the domestic violence case back for trial.

  • Domestic violence
  • Customary marriage dissolution
  • Mediation
  • Appeals procedure
  • Domestic-violence
  • Customary-marriage
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Civil procedure [2023] GHADC 1140

JAMOR VRS YARROH & ANOTHER (A11/13/2023)

JAMOR VRS YARROH & ANOTHER (A11/13/2023) [2023] GHADC 1140 (20 September 2023)

The District Court dismissed a writ seeking enforcement of a customary arbitration award, holding the claimant used the wrong procedure under Act 798.

  • Enforcement of arbitration awards
  • Jurisdiction
  • Customary arbitration
  • Enforcement-of-arbitration-awards
  • Customary-arbitration
  • Civil-procedure
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Alternative dispute resolution [2023] GHAHC 81

Tanihu and 9 Others Vrs Kpankpah and 2 Others

Tanihu and 9 Others Vrs Kpankpah and 2 Others [2023] GHAHC 81 (21 June 2023)

The High Court in Tema adopted a court-connected ADR mediator’s handwritten report as a consent judgment after both parties signed it and raised no objection.

  • Consent judgment
  • Mediation adoption
  • Consent-judgment
  • Alternative-dispute-resolution
  • Mediation
  • Civil-procedure
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Civil procedure [2023] GHADC 236

Coffie Vrs Ababio

Coffie Vrs Ababio [2023] GHADC 236 (16 March 2023)

The District Court dismissed a claim to recover a customary arbitration award, holding that the plaintiff used the wrong procedure because the award had not been registered first.

  • Arbitration award enforcement
  • Jurisdiction
  • Res judicata
  • Arbitration-award-enforcement
  • Civil-procedure
  • Res-judicata
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