TISMARK INJA vs. TINA DEHEER , AMELIA LAING

JUDGMENT PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC:- 1. This case has come to this honourable court on appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4th June 2020. A transaction between two close friends got entangled in the vicissitudes of Ghana’s constitutional history with regrettable results. As a character in William Shakespeare’s famous Play ‘Hamlet’ counsels his son, “This above all: To thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Facts and Background 2. The plaintiff was the owner of House No. 9 2nd Close, Airport Residential Area, Accra (herein referred to as ‘the subject-property’). He acquired the property by Deed of Assignment dated 27th June 1978 from one Emanuel Richard Ofori. He let his friend and former employee Group Captain Timothy Laing occupy the property, rent-free with his family in 1981. In 1982, he formed a shipping company, Remco Shipping Company, with a foreign investor. He held 50...