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The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is an independent specialised agency responsible for performing four (4) main functions. I. The OSP is tasked with investigating specific cases of alleged or suspected corruption or corruption-related offences involving public officers and persons who have been entrusted with prominent public functions in Ghana or a foreign country or an international ...
Kissi Agyebeng (born 2 July 1978) is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic, and the Special Prosecutor of Ghana since 2021. Prior to his appointment, he was a lecturer at the University of Ghana, Managing Partner at Cromwellgray LLP, and the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal of Ghana.
The Ministry of Justice was created in 1951 after the Lidbury Commission was established to come up with recommendations upon reviewing the Gold Coast Civil Service. [2] The commission established that the establishment of ministries by the then newly established Gold Coast government, headed by Kwame Nkrumah (then Prime Minister and Head of Government Business), was to be modelled under the ...
Much of the judicial work in Ghana takes place at the lower level courts that hear many criminal and civil cases. [13] As the population of Ghana is rapidly expanding to more than 29 million people, [ 14 ] these bodies are often faced with massive backlogs of cases that need to be heard. [ 13 ]
Professor of Law at the University of Ghana: 12 March 2004 [72] 54 16 September 2003 [74] [75] Samuel Date-Bah: Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London: August 2014: 55 14 May 2004 [76] Tawia Modibo Ocran: Professor of Law at the University of Ghana: 27 October 2008 [77] Died in office 56 15 October 2004 [78] Richard ...
Mercy Yvonne Debrah-Karikari is a Ghanaian diplomat and the first female to be secretary to the cabinet of the government of Ghana. She was appointed to occupy this position by the current president Nana Akufo-Addo. Her appointment took effect on 14 February 2017. [1] [2]
The Chief Justice of Ghana currently in office is the chairperson for the council. The council also includes the three most senior members of the Supreme Court of Ghana; the Attorney General of Ghana and his or her nominee; and the President, Vice President, and secretary of the Ghana Bar Association. [3]
Admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales in 1957, he returned to Ghana and joined the office of the Registrar-General. Appointed registrar-general in 1959 and judicial secretary in 1961, he became a High Court judge in 1964 and a Supreme Court judge in 1980.