General Legal Council

The General Legal Council is the body that regulates the Legal Profession in Ghana. It was set up in 1960 by an act of parliament, The Legal Profession Act, 1960 (Act 32). Its role was to oversee legal education and the legal profession in the country.^[1]

General Legal Council

Agency overview
Formed	1960
Jurisdiction	Government of Ghana
Headquarters	Accra, Ghana 05°32′46″N 00°12′21″W
Minister responsible	Godfred Dame, Attorney General and Minister for Justice
Agency executive	Getrude Asaaba Araba Torkonoo, Chief Justice of Ghana
Website	glc.gov.gh

Members of the Council

The membership of the Council includes academics, judges and legal practitioners representing legal education, training and practice.^[2] The Chief Justice of Ghana currently in office is the chairperson for the council. The council also includes the three most senior members of the Supreme Court of Ghana; the Attorney General of Ghana and his or her nominee; and the President, Vice President, and secretary of the Ghana Bar Association.^[3]

Members of the General Legal Council
Position	Name	Office	Start Date
Chairperson	Kwasi Anin-Yeboah	Chief Justice of Ghana	7 January 2020
Member	Julius Ansah	Supreme Court Judge
Member	Jones Dotse	Supreme Court Judge	January 2020
Member	Paul Baffoe-Bonnie	Supreme Court Judge
Member	Gloria Akuffo	Attorney General of Ghana	January 2017
Member	Joseph Dindiok Kpemka	Deputy Attorney General
Member	Raymond Atugubah	Dean, University of Ghana Law School
Member	Anthony Forson[4][3]	Ghana Bar Association President	September 2018
Member	William Orleans Oduro[3]	Ghana Bar Association Vice President
Member	Peter Kornor	Legal practitioner
Member	Justin Amenuvor	Legal practitioner
In attendance
Position	Name	Office	Start Date
Secretary	Cynthia Pamela Akotoaa Addo[5][6]	Judicial Secretary	2 October 2018
In attendance	Kwasi Prempeh-Eck	Director of Legal Education and Ghana School of Law
In attendance	Lydia Nkansah	Dean, Faculty of Law Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
In attendance	Kofi Abotsi	Dean, Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
In attendance	Stephen Offei	Dean, Faculty of Law, Wisconsin University College
In attendance	Franklina Gesila Adanu	Counsel, General Legal Counsel

Functions

The council maintains licences lawyers to practice. It also enrolls new members to the Ghana Bar during the first week of every October. It has a Disciplinary Committee which is able to sanction and disbar legal practitioners in the country.^[2]