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HARTLEY TRUST GHANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
V.
GEORGINA MENSAH DARRAH

(2018) JELR 108374 (HC)

High Court 30 Oct 2018 Ghana
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- The case involves a dispute over the ownership and management of an educational center in Kasoa, Ghana, between a UK-based trust and a local woman. - The trust claims it established the center to advance education, while the local woman i

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO. LDT/00037/17
Judges:K.A. GYIMAH, J
Counsel:NAA ABIANA MENSAH-YAWSON FOR GEORGE HEWARD-MILLS FOR PLAINTIFF. OPOKU-AMPONSAH WITH BENEDICTA MAWUSI FIANOO FOR DEFENDANT.

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Introduction 

The facts of this suit are interesting and somewhat brings to the fore the issue of  schools under trees which has been a major problem that has confronted our  educational system over the years and which the plaintiff supposedly sought to solve  in its own small way.  

Plaintiff’s Case 

The plaintiff describes itself as a Trust registered with the United Kingdom Charity  Commission with its chairman being David Mustill who used to work with the British  Airways as a senior flight dispatcher but is now retired. The sole object of the Trust  according to the plaintiff is to advance education in Kasoa through the provision of an  educational centre, playing fields, workshops and other developments that are  charitable at law. 

The plaintiff avers that during one of the chairman’s visits to Ghana around the year  1994, he was touched by the plight of children of a school at Nyanyano near Kasoa  who were studying under a tree and he therefore decided to help…

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