Senior Law Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Raymond Atuguba has chastised the General Legal Council for what he said is selective justice meted out to Human Rights Lawyer, Francis Xavier- Sosu lately.
The Legal Council handed the Human Rights Lawyer, a 3 year ban for advertising his firm and for charging unapproved fees.
But Dr. Raymond Atuguba said the laws regulating to the practice of law were outdated and unevenly applied in that regard.
“Every lawyer in Ghana and every law firm in Ghana that is in the business of practicing law constantly breaches the 1960 rules [Legal Profession Act 1960] that govern legal practice in Ghana. When you have such anachronistic rule in operation and everyone is breaching them, then the risk of selective justice becomes very high… If we like your face and we like your politics, we ignore it when you breach them, but if we don’t like your face and we don’t like your politics, we apply them to you strictly when you breach them,” he told Accra-based Citi FM.
He argued “Based on the Sosu precedent, every law firm with such material on their website must be penalized. Do you see how dangerous this rule is?” he quizzed.
He hinted that a draft proposal would be forwarded to the General Legal Council for consideration to have the inherent problems addressed in the legal guide regulating the profession.
However, Lawyer Xavier-Sosu has said he’ll launch a legal challenge to fight the ruling against him.
