Andrew Owusu (born July 8, 1972) is a Ghanaian athlete who competes in the triple jump. July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, step and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ...
The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from August 23 to August 31, 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint Denis, Paris, France. ... The 8th All-Africa Games were played from October 5, 2003 to October 17, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. ... The 7th All-Africa Games were played from September 10, 1999 to September 19, 1999 in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. ... The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 11 to September 21 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for 20th Century. ... The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10. ...
In October 1997 AndrewOwusu, a British national domiciled in England, suffered a serious injury while on holiday at Mammee Bay in Jamaica.
Mr Owusu had rented his holiday accommodation from a Mr Jackson, another British national domiciled in England, who was named as first defendant in the proceedings that Mr Owusu commenced in England in an effort to obtain compensation.
In view of this ruling it is to be expected that the Court of Appeal will remove the stay on Mr Owusu's proceedings, retain jurisdiction and allow the action to proceed to trial in England (even if it is satisfied that Jamaica would be a more suitable forum).
The action arises out of a very serious accident to Mr Owusu when he was bathing in the sea on a holiday in Jamaica on 10 October 1997.
[7] After Mr Owusu had his accident, it came to his advisers' attention that another English holiday-maker, Alexandra Rickham, had had a similar accident two years earlier in which she, too, was rendered tetraplegic.
One new substantive point that he made was that two of his client's witnesses, namely Mr Owusu himself and Miss Rickham, had suffered significant injuries and it would be difficult for them to travel to Jamaica, and that all the witnesses in relation to causation and quantum resided in the United Kingdom.
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