PHOTOS:Professor Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah delivers a Lecture on: “Reflections on the Evolution of Business Law in Ghana since Independence”

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His Lordship Professor Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ghana will be delivering a Lecture at the Faculty of Law Auditorium, University of Ghana on Monday 5^th November 2018 which forms part of the Annual Legon Law Lectures.

The topic for the lecture is “Reflecting on the Evolution of Business Law in Ghana since Independence”.

The Chairperson for the for the event is Her Ladyship Justice Sophia Akuffo, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana.

Members of the General Public are thereby invited for the lecture and must be seated by 3:30pm.

Meanwhile a brief Profile of Professor Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah.

His Lordship is an academic and a former Supreme Court Judge in Ghana(2008-2013) and the Gambia.

In the 1970s, he was a Member of the Ghana Law Reform Commission and Between 1969 and 1979 he was a part-time legal practitioner in Accra. He has since 2000 been a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1996 a member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law.

He is currently the Chairman, of the Committee of Experts of the Business Law Reform Commission established by the Attorney-General has been inaugurated in Accra. Former Chairman of the University of Ghana Council, Legon. He is also the Board Chairman of the Data Protection Commission of Ghana.

Between 1984 and 2003 Professor Date-Bah was the Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London responsible for effective legal advisory and negotiating services to the developing member states of the Commonwealth. He played instrumental role as leader of a multidisciplinary Commonwealth Secretariat team which assisted the first independence Government of Namibia to negotiate a joint-venture agreement with De Beers that has been the bedrock of the Namibian economy since then; and several petroleum exploration agreements with international petroleum companies on behalf of the government.

In the 1970s, Representative of the Ghana Government to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. He was elected Chairman of the commission in 1978.

Since 1966 he has been a member of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law UNIDROIT, Rome, Working Group that produced the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.

Profile Source: GARIA