Members of the Ghana Law Society with the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin (3rd from right)
A private citizen, Yaw Aning Boadu, has sued the General Legal Council, Registrar of Companies, and the Ghana Law Society over the recent accreditation of the latter to license lawyers.
Yaw Aning Boadu, who is said to be a senior lawyer, contends that the accreditation was illegal because the Ghana Law Society has not met the requirement to be recognised as a professional body in the country.
He claimed that the country’s laws require that, for a body to be registered as a professional body, it must have a membership of at least 1% of the total number of professionals in that field.
“The Plaintiff further says that the Registrar may only register a professional body where satisfied that the applicant has complied with all the statutory requirements, including that it represents not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the persons trained and qualified in the profession concerned.
“The Plaintiff says that a search conducted at the 2nd Defendant’s office revealed that the 1st Defendant has not complied with this statutory requirement, as its membership is barely one per cent (1%) of the persons trained and qualified in the legal profession,” it added.
It added, “The Plaintiff says that the purported registration of the 1st Defendant by the 2nd Defendant was therefore done outside the scope of the Registrar’s authority, in breach of statute, and constitutes an illegality.”
The senior lawyer went on to seek the following reliefs from the court:
a. A declaration that the registration of the 1st Defendant by the 2nd Defendant as a body of persons trained and qualified in the legal profession is illegal.
b. An order directed at the 2nd Defendant to expunge the 1st Defendant from the Register of Professional Bodies.
c. An order directed at the 3rd Defendant to withdraw and expunge any purported accreditation, approval, or recognition granted to the 1st Defendant.
d. A perpetual injunction restraining the 1st Defendant, its executives, and members from holding themselves out as a registered or accredited professional body of lawyers.
e. Any further or other orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit.
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