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    <title>Practice and procedure in the trial courts &amp; tribunals of Ghana</title>
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    <title>Practice &amp; procedure in the trial courts &amp; tribunals of Ghana</title>
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    <namePart>Brobbey, S. A.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Accra, Ghana</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Advanced Legal Publications</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="start">2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="end">9999</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>ixxxvii,733p.; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: General: Introduction -- The Ghana legal system: structure and hierarchy of the courts and tribunals -- Jurisdiction -- Criminal proceedings: Summary trial of criminal cases -- Judgement and decision- making process in criminal processing  -- Punishment and sentencing -- Matters ancillary to criminal trials -- Specialised proceedings in the district court -- Criminal proceedings in respect of children: the juvenile court -- Civil proceedings: Pre- trial procedures in civil proceedings -- Summary Trial of civil suits -- Judgement and decision process in civil proceedings -- Costs in civil proceedings -- Interest on claims for money -- Interlocutory matters -- Review of decision in civil proceedings: order 29 -- Execution of judgements, decrees and orders -- The Trial of Landlord and tenant cases -- Civil proceedings in respect of children -- Settlements and alternative disputes resolution -- Miscellaneous: Offences ancillary to criminal and civil trials -- Bails and securities -- Locus in Quo -- Evidence of witness on commission after start of trial -- Taking evidence in anticipation of trial -- Civil and criminal cases pending contemporaneously -- Suits pending before one magistrate continued by author magistrate -- Practicing the Law:   The Law in practice -- The court Prosecutor -- On being an advocate -- The Magistrate -- Appeal from the District court -- Judicial service administration and the district court registry.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">S.A. Brobbey.</note>
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    <topic>Procedure (Law)</topic>
    <geographic>Ghana</geographic>
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    <topic>Courts</topic>
    <geographic>Ghana</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KRX3520 .B76 </classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9988758650</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2012311146</identifier>
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