The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that he has not come up with any new Legal Profession Bill.
He said In point of fact, there has not been any Legal Profession Bill drafted by the Office of Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice this year.
Speaking at the opening of a four-day international conference on the future of legal education in Ghana and Africa at the University of Ghana School of Law, Godfred Yeboah Dame said “No approval has been sought by me from Cabinet for a Legal Profession Bill to be sent to Parliament, and for that matter, no Legal Profession Bill has been submitted to Parliament” the Attorney General clarified.
“Even the most basic step we undertake as part of the process for legislative drafting, stakeholder engagements, has not been performed for any Legal Profession Bill” he added.
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame in his speech at the ceremony indicated that to his “utter surprise and consternation”, he saw a document being spread around social media and mass media as the Attorney-General’s Legal Profession Bill.
“With unrestrained haste, various persons of high standing in society, including university professors, senior lawyers, etc. rushed to the media make all manner of comments, virtually casting aspersions at the integrity of the Attorney-General for coming up with such a Bill”.
“This, they did, without sparing even a split second to verify the accuracy of the information, even though, in truth and in fact, I am just a telephone call away from most of the commentators were engaged in the media commentary”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
