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Revised laws of Ghana launched
Email Print Normal font Large font Source: Samuel Amoako, Times
Posted: Saturday 10 March 2007


Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Joe Ghartey presented it to Prez Kufuor
Photo: GHP

For the first time in 56 years, the country’s laws have been revised and put into one compilation known as "the Laws of Ghana."

The revision was undertaken by Mr. Justice V.C.R.C. Crabbe, an eminent jurist and the Commissioner of the Statute Law Revision.

The new edition, in seven volumes, captures the laws of governance, economic, financial and commercial laws as well as private sector laws, among others.

Yesterday, President John Agyekum Kufuor launched the book at a ceremony at the Castle.

The compilation includes all the laws of Ghana which were in force as at December 2004 and covers the statutes, legislative instruments and the Constitutional Instruments as well as about 2000 pieces of legislation.

The volumes contain an index of the laws of the Gold Coast and Ghana from 1852 to 2004.

The first revision of the laws of Ghana was undertaken by Sir Leslie Vivian McCarthy in 1936 and comprised six volumes.

The second revision which was in 1951 in five volumes was in 1951 by Sir Percy McElwane.

President Kufuor said the next 50 years should see Ghana as a great, united and developed nation, built on a sound foundation of the rule of law.

He said the adoption of the 1992 Constitution which is supreme over all laws confirms the resolve of Ghanaians to live by their motto of freedom and justice.

The Constitution, he said, thus, sets the paradigm for all political, economic and social arrangements, adding, "It is the glue that keeps the fabric of our nation together."

President Kufuor said given the critical role law plays in national development, it was sad that the country was publishing its first revised version in 56 years.

He said the next 50 years should see Ghana as a great, united and develo-ped nation, built on the sound foundation of the rule of law.

By our national Con-stitution, he said, law should be a liberating force and not a tool for oppre-ssion.

"It should promote enlightenment and gua-rantee fundamental human rights, freedom and deve-lopment."

In furtherance of that, he said advantage should be taken of ICT to make that simple and user-friendly compendium more extensively access-ible to researchers, profes-sionals and everybody.

President Kufuor commended Justice Crab-be for the good work done.

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Joe Ghartey, said the revised volumes have corrected all the incon-sistencies that existed in the statute books.

He said the process of law revision has rid the laws of those provisions which were inconsistent with the Constitution of Ghana and has reasserted in no uncertain terms, the supremacy of the Con-stitution.

This was a report by Group Captain Dr ebenezer Sen Mills!
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