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    Ghana Bar Association

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    Ghana Bar Association

    Formation 1876; 146 years ago

    Type Professional association

    Purpose To promote legal professionalism

     Accra, Ghana
    Location

    Official language English

    National President Yaw Boafo

    Website www.ghanabar.org

    The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is a professional association of lawyers in Ghana,


    including what used to be called solicitors and barristers but are now called legal
    practitioners, as well as magistrates. By convention all lawyers admitted to practice in
    Ghana become automatic members of the association. [1] The first president of the
    Ghanaian Bar was Sierra Leonean lawyer Frans Dove.[2]

    Contents

    History and membership[edit]


    The British parliament established the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Gold Coast
    Colony in 1876, with a Chief Justice and no more than four Puisne Justices.[3] John
    Mensah Sarbah was the first native of Ghana to be called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in
    1887. The legal system was based on that of England, in which solicitors provide legal
    advice and prepare legal documents while barristers act as advocates in court.
    However, this division was not observed in practice in Ghana, and in 1960 an act
    abolished the distinction.[4] Until the Ghana School of Law was established in 1958, all
    lawyers were trained abroad, almost always at the Inns of Court in England. As of 2011
    there are about 2,500 practicing lawyers, although not all have registered as members
    of the Bar Association.[5]
    Even though the legal profession in The Gold Coast (now Ghana) can be traced to as
    far back as 1846, the Ghana Bar Association as a body had its first constitution in 1958.
    [6]

    The current national president of the GBA is Yaw Boafo [7]


    Some past presidents of the GBA include:

     Robert Samuel Blay (1957–1959) and (1960–1962)


     Archie Casely-Hayford (1959–1960)
     J. B. Danquah (1962–1963)
     Victor Owusu (acting 1963–1965) and (1965–1966)
     William Ofori-Atta (1966–1967)
     Joe Appiah (1967–1970)[8][9]
     Joe Reindorf (1970–1971)
     Edward Nathaniel Moore (1971–1972)
     J. B. Quashie-Idun (1972–1976)
     J. K. F. Adadevoh (1976–1979)
     W. A. N. Adumoah-Bossman (1979-1981)[10]
     E. D. Kom (1981–1982)
     J. K. Agyemang (1982–1985)
     Peter Ala Adjetey (1985–1989)
     Anthony K. Mmieh (1989–1992?)
     Nutifafa Kuenyehia (1992–95),[11]
     Sam Okudzeto(1995–98)[12]
     Joseph Ebow Quashie (1998-2001) [13]
     Paul Adu-Gyamfi (2001–?)[14]
     Solomon Kwame Tetteh[15]
     Nii Osah Mills (2007–08)[16][17]
     Frank Beecham (2009–12)[18]
     Nene A. O. Amegatcher (2012–2015)
     Benson Nutsukpui 2015–2018[19]
     Tony For son Jnr. 2018–2021
    The Ghana Bar Association is a member of the International Bar Association.[20]

    Controversy[edit]
    In October 2010 then GBA Vice President, Mr. Justice Kusi-Minkah Premo, called on
    the Chief Justice and the Council to eliminate inconsistency, corruption and misconduct
    by judges.[21] In April 2011 then National President Frank W. K. Beecham spoke in
    defence of Mr Justice E. K. Ayebi, a judge who had come under attack after acquitting
    14 defendants in a murder trial.[22]
    In July 2011 four lawyers made allegations of widespread corruption among judges. The
    GBA condemned the four for making unsubstantiated claims, and asked them to name
    the judges. Another lawyer openly confessed to having bribed a judge. The GBA said it
    would take legal steps to prosecute him.[23] The four lawyers were blacklisted by the
    Association of Magistrate

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