AGYEIBEA v. FAHIM & CO [1968] GLR 463-470

Sale of goods—Hire-purchase—Agreement—Statutory provision—Circumventing provisions of enactment by deliberately inflating case price of hire-purchase agreement—Effect—Sale of Goods, Act, 1962 (Act 137).

Sale of goods—Hire-purchase—Agreement—Waiver of statutory provisions—Courts—Discretion—Party to agreement not complying with prescribed statutory formalities—Discretion in court to enforce rights of defaulting party—When discretion exercisable in favour of defaulting party—Act 137, s.66(4).

Damages—Hire-purchase—Wrongful seizure—Remedies of buyer limited to action for return of deposit and instalments paid prior to seizure.