Leadership of the Concerned Lawyers has stated that it was only the General Legal Council that had the mandate to determine �who is a lawyer and who is a lawyer in good standing� in the country.
�This presentation is to clear lingering doubts and wrong
perceptions being harboured by certain sections of society on Ghana
Bar Association�s (GBA)mention of the term �Lawyers in Good Standing�
in its annual publications on the standing of its members, which has
been causing members who do not belong to the GBA to suffer public
ridicule and embarrassment�.
This was contained in a statement issued by the group signed by
Mr Addo-Aikins, Legal Practitioner, and copied to the Ghana News
Agency in Accra.
The statement said it had come to the notice of the group that
GBA�s annual publications on the standing of its members were being
misinterpreted by ce ain sections of society to mean that �those
lawyers whose names do not appear in the publications or those lawyers
who are not found or heard at the GBA�s meetings or ceremonies or
those lawyers who are not seen in robes during court sessions are not
lawyers in Good Standing�.
It stated that people with such an idea be informed that GBA was
a voluntary lawyers� association, which lawyers in the country might
choose to join or not to join adding, the term �Lawyers in Good
Standing� as contained in the publications referred to �paid�up�
members of GBA only and could not be a yardstick for assessing the
status of lawyers.
The statement suggested that �GBA make amends and set minds at
ease to prevent the recurrence of the serious damage, which its annual
publications are causing to the integrity and reputation of lawyers
who do not belong to it.
Source: gna
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