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| Lawyer | Academic | Arsenal ❤️|

[Jonathan A. Alua @abotiwine]

Welcome to the Bar!

Out of a personal belief that our new lawyers deserve to spend the whole weekend celebrating the commendable achievement of being called to the bar, I've held these few words until now. For some of them, tomorrow is their first working day as lawyers; for others, that day will come later. Whatever the case may be, welcome to the bar. May prosperity locate you in the noblest of ways.

I've picked up a few lessons over the years that may be helpful. Here you go:

1. Beware of generic advice. If advice isn't bespoke to you, endure it, but by no means be bound by it. "Go and do an LLM." "Work in a big law firm." "Do litigation for a few years before you decide what to specialize in." You'll hear these from well-meaning people trying to help you grow. Appreciate their selflessness, but after at least five years of study for your professional credentials, you have earned the right to decide how your career is shaped. That something worked for a senior lawyer 20 years ago doesn't mean it will work for you, especially in a completely different legal market. Value such exhortations for what they are, but chart your own path, intentionally.

2. Guard your professional reputation with all your might. Hear me out. Don't worry about the flimsy things people think of you. Not everyone will like you, and expecting otherwise will leave you hurt every day. People may have reservations about your life and your choices, but make them respect your professional worth. Give them no choice. In the professional world, nothing should be personal except what you bring to the table. How? I won't fall into the trap of giving generic advice. Whatever route you choose, make sure the substance of your law is never in question. The law doesn't stop growing because you've become a lawyer; it may not even know you've arrived. It changes, it grows, and it demands constant attention.

3. Extend grace to clients. A long time ago, someone told me that doctors and lawyers do exactly the same thing in different places. Anyone with a legal problem is like a sick person: until you treat the ailment, the itch won't go away. Remember that.

4. Touch lives, in your own little way. I now teach law in a program that deliberately emphasizes the public policy underpinnings of the law. It gives me great joy, because I know we're producing a unique crop of lawyers who are responsive to the unspoken ethos behind the black letter of the law. After all is said and done, law is a means to an end. Prosperity isn't the end; it's merely a necessary companion on the journey.

Welcome to the bar, and may the bar continue to prosper.

PS: Every new lawyer needs to read Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Letters to a Young Lawyer’.

[KOJO DYNAMIC 𓃵 @AnnanPerry]

If every CEO or minister had a deputy like Richard Nunekpeku ESQ, I am very sure that no one would see or hear of a feud between a substantive and a deputy.
Sammy Gyamfi ESQ has acknowledged and praised Richard Nunekpeku as very workaholic, overly competent, a confidant, intelligent, and a sharp thinker.

Richard, compliments Sammy Gyamfi on delivering the tremendous results GOLDBOD has achieved over the 1 year it has existed.

More grease to his elbow.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴⚪️ BREAKING: Bruno Guimarães to Arsenal, HERE WE GO! 🇧🇷

Agreement in place with Newcastle after long talks and personal terms in place with Bruno since July. Fee worth £75m.

New midfielder for Mikel Arteta. 🔜

[Santi @PeakSxnti]

Don’t say anything just repost.

[hafeezzzzzz @theonlyCrux]

Viktor Gyokeres has always been clear of Harry Kane, if he disagrees he should put his premier league title on the table

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING… PROUD TO BE A GOONER #COYG

[Jurrien Timber @JurrienTimber]

How good is god man

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

THE ARSENAL PLAYERS & STAFF CELEBRATING BECOMING PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS AT SOBHA REALTY TRAINING CENTRE TONIGHT. ❤️‍🔥🕺

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

The moment the Arsenal squad found out they were CHAMPIONS! 🏆🙌

[AFC Bournemouth 🍒 @afcbournemouth]

We are ready 👊

[Justice Srem-Sai @JusticeSremSai]

Congratulations on your successful thesis defence, Doctor. In your case, this terminal degree is merely a confirmation of what you have always been. Cheers 🍾 @NoahAdamtey

[Justice Srem-Sai @JusticeSremSai]

You may know him for human rights activism and protests only; but @barkervogues’ true expertise is in Public International Law and Diplomacy. It’s a very specialised area of law practice. I’m happy that he’s placed that uncommon expertise at the disposal of our beloved Republic, particularly on this historic project by His Excellency, @JDMahama

[Justice Srem-Sai @JusticeSremSai]

Nearly 9 years ago, on March 14, 2017. My boss, the Honourable Attorney-General, then the immediate-past Deputy Attorney-General, had this to say about the independence of the OSP.

[GBOLAHAN 🪬 @gbolaha_n9]

@germanlang25 Can I have this kinda opportunity too ? It’s being my dream to be fluent in German and aspiring to work in Germany soon 🙏🏽

[Timothy Selikem Korku Donkor @DonkorST]

MOPA is dangerous. It is dangerous because it offers the judiciary an opportunity to legislate. It is dangerous because it constitutes an arbitrary exercise of the courts' interpretive authority.

But that isn't its greatest sin.
MOPA is an uncritical interpretive theory. It is empty, as Justice Antonin Scalia would characterize it.
It is backwardness presented as progress, as it mimics and mirrors the attitude of a common law judge who was long buried by written constitutionalism, dating back some 100 years.

Ghana’s MOPA is a corruption of theory. It ineffectively tries to adapt the Barakian purpose-based theory of interpretation to Ghana’s constitutional practice. And for its lack of originality and conceptual depth, it did that poorly. It relied on a flawed theory of interpretation to formulate a poorer theory of interpretation.

The Constitution is no living organism. Justice Sowah in Tuffuor v. Attorney General merely repeated arcane words without any justification whatsoever for them, but for their poetic and flowery appeal.
And like the imitative monkey trained for a circus, the next generations copied it and kept it for its Shakespearean grip.
But good theory is not based on its poetic sense but on logicality, justification, and conceptual substance.
Justice Date-Bah’s MOPA is intellectually indefensible.

The constitution is what it is, as it was intended and understood (its public meaning) by its framers and participants in the referendum some 30 years ago. Its words are fixed and static. To prevent it from becoming outmoded, an amendment provision was included under Chapter 25. If its words and meaning find no favor with subsequent generations, they may alter them through an amending process.
This is our constitutional theory.

No judge can, through a veil of interpretation, amend our constitution to meet the changing views and values of current generations. That is judicial legislation and anarchy. It is alien to our written constitution. It makes the judiciary more powerful than even the people, citizens, who made the constitution.

It is a theory of interpretation based on the perspective of a blind man. Of course, blind to sound theory and law.

Exorcise MOPA. End MOPA. It is theoretically weak and empty.

[For the love of Ot✨ @OtenewaO]

Over here guyss!

[Biggest Joel @KojoTelfer]

When I saw I regret the lawyerification of public discourse, they say I’m inviting attacks against lawyers.

Why should anyone’s opinions,even on matters of law and especially in public discourse, be rubbished simply on account of the fact the person never qualified as a lawyer?

[DR. SREM SAI’s PA @Kingsford_Ob]

“The body achieves what the mind believes.”

-Napoleon Hill

#ORAL

[Justice Srem-Sai @JusticeSremSai]

Suspect PERCIVAL KOFI AKPALOO is under investigation on allegations of various financial crimes (including fraud, causing financial loss to the State, dissipation of public funds, and money laundering).

EOCO officials arrested him on Wednesday, September 3, 2025. He has, however, been granted police bail with the following conditions - GHC 10 million bond with 2 sureties to be justified.

The suspect remains in the custody of EOCO pending the fulfilment of the bail conditions.