District Court

The District Court is the lowest in the hierarchy of all Courts in the country and it makes the largest number of Courts. The Family Court, Juvenile Court, and Motor Court are all District Courts and NOT District Magistrate Courts. They are located in most Districts in Ghana and are presided over by Magistrates.

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Judgment date
July 2025
16 July 2025
June 2025
Decree of dissolution granted where parties had not cohabited for two continuous years and respondent consented.
Matrimonial Causes Act (Act 367) – Sole ground for divorce is breakdown beyond reconciliation; grounds include unreasonable behaviour and non-cohabitation for two years with respondent’s consent; admissions by non-traversal treated as proved; court may grant decree where statutory facts established and consent present.
4 June 2025
Applicant’s unchallenged allegations and two-year non-cohabitation with respondent’s consent justified dissolution of the ordinance marriage.
Matrimonial Causes Act 1971 (Act 367) – divorce – breakdown beyond reconciliation – unreasonable behaviour – non-cohabitation for two years with respondent’s consent – unchallenged admissions in pleadings.
4 June 2025
May 2025
Marriage dissolved for continuous non‑cohabitation; desertion and property claims rejected for lack of evidence.
Divorce — Matrimonial Causes Act (Act 367) — Breakdown beyond reconciliation — Non‑cohabitation for five years (s.1(2), s.2(1)(e)); Desertion — elements required (de facto separation, animus deserendi, lack of consent, lack of reasonable excuse); Evidence — burden of proof and corroboration; Matrimonial property — equality in equity but requirement to prove acquisition; Ancillary reliefs — custody, maintenance, educational and medical responsibilities, accommodation and alimony.
14 May 2025
January 2025
Marriage dissolved for unreasonable behaviour and failure to maintain; parties' consent settlement adopted for custody and maintenance.
* Family law – Matrimonial Causes Act (Act 367) – Breakdown of marriage beyond reconciliation – unreasonable behaviour and failure to maintain as grounds for dissolution. * Family law – Proof of desertion – not established. * Family law – Consent terms adopted as consent judgment – custody, maintenance, school fees and sharing of incidentals. * Civil procedure – adoption of parties' settlement as consent judgment.
22 January 2025
May 2023
4 May 2023
April 2023
28 April 2023
March 2023
22 March 2023
14 March 2023
February 2023
23 February 2023
December 2022
31 December 2022
November 2022
18 November 2022
17 November 2022
11 November 2022
4 November 2022
September 2022
20 September 2022