The General Legal Council (GLC) has been dragged to the Supreme Court of Ghana for engaging in an alleged illegality by subtly amending the law prohibiting lawyers from touting and advertisement without recourse to Parliament. The Legal Profession Rules of 1969, L. I. 613 and the Code of Ethics of the Ghana Bar Association passed … Read more
A client who reported now-suspended private legal practitioner Francis-Xavier Sosu to the General Legal Council (GLC), has said that the lawyer’s plight is a punishment from God. Francis Agyare, who was wrongfully jailed for 14 years and was later released through the ‘Justice for all programme’ explained that the lawyer wanted to dupe him of … Read more
A seven-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, has expressed willingness to determine the case instituted against the General Legal Council (GLC) by the US based lawyer, Professor S. Kwaku Asare. Prof. Asare is challenging the constitutionality of the selection methods and criteria used in the admission of LLB holders who desire … Read more