Legal Practitioner and Member of Parliament for South Dayi in the Volta Region, Dafaemekpor Rockson-Nelson and two others have initiated an action at the Supreme Court seeking to break the monopoly of the Ghana Bar Association as referenced in the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and other statutes.
Together with one Israel Tetteh and the Ghana Law Society they want a declaration that the Ghana Bar Association referenced in the 1992 Constitution is not the same or synonymous to the current Ghana Bar Association, which according to them "is a single voluntary association of lawyers registered or existing under private law and that the constitutional reference to the Ghana Bar Association must be construed as referring to the umbrella of associations of lawyers in Ghana."
They have therefore filed, a writ at the Supreme Court seeking declarative reliefs from the Court to dismantle the monopoly of the Ghana Bar Association in the 1992 Constitution and the Legal Profession Act.
The writ filed on their behalf by Dr. Jennifred Maurice Adjei of Obour, Minta and Co. Solicitors is seeking declarative reliefs to the effect that any reference to "Ghana Bar Association" in the 1992 Constitution and the Legal Profession Act means all associations of lawyers which should include the Ghana Law Society.
It is their argument that the reference of "Ghana Bar Association" in the constitution and the Legal Profession Act to the Ghana Bar Association alone as led by Mrs. Efua Ghartey is discriminatory and an unequal treatment of associations of lawyers in Ghana.
They want the Supreme Court to prohibit the Ghana Bar Association, its assigns, agents, and privies from holding themselves out as exclusive members of the group referrable as Ghana Bar Association in the 1992 constitution and statutes in force in Ghana.
Attached below is a copy of the writ
