{"id":445001,"date":"2017-12-08T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/general-legal-council-is-lawless-francis-xavier-sosu\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:39:24","slug":"general-legal-council-is-lawless-francis-xavier-sosu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/general-legal-council-is-lawless-francis-xavier-sosu\/","title":{"rendered":"General Legal Council is &#8216;lawless&#8217; \u2013 Francis Xavier Sosu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/44955858.295.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Xavier Sosu33\" title=\"Francis Xavier Sosu33\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Francis Xavier Sosu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512758364_500_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Suspended legal practitioner, Francis Xavier Sosu, has descended heavily on Ghana\u2019s General Legal Council, describing the body as one of the lawless institutions in the country that has been victimizing lawyers. <\/p>\n<p>In his view, members of the Council, which is the main regulatory body for the conduct and administration of legal education and profession in Ghana have formed a cartel which doesn\u2019t regard due process in its work but good at intimidating young lawyers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026We have a system that seeks to, if you like, victimise lawyers. We have a system of people who have formed themselves into a cartel that would want to sit on lawyers; it\u2019s the General Legal Council,\u201d he told host of Onua FM\u2019s morning show \u2018Yen Sempa\u2019, Bright Kwesi Asempa Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Mincing no words, he said he cannot stand the level of injustice currently being perpetuated by the Council whose members, he said have made themselves \u201cdummy gods\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have a Council that, with all due respect, doesn\u2019t follow procedure; does what it likes, the law says you have to try and come up with laws to deal with cases, you will not do it\u2026 You see me I can\u2019t stand injustice,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sosu who is currently under a three-year suspension by the General Legal Council said one thing they were taught in law school was that \u201cthe authority of a lawyer is not limited\u201d hence the Council cannot be limiting a lawyer\u2019s independence in terms of his work. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sosu was in early 2017 barred from practising as a lawyer for three years after the Council found him guilty of professional misconduct contrary to the code regulating legal practice in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The Council explained the suspension was the result of a complaint filed by one Francis Agyare, a client of Mr Sosu, at the Council accusing him and his law firm F-X Law &amp; Associates of attempting to swindle him. <\/p>\n<p>Sounding blunt, he said the Council has constituted itself into an \u201carbitrary\u201d body that is \u201clawless\u201d, declaring \u201cthe General Legal Council is one of the lawless institutions I have seen in this country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is very lawless. What is lawlessness, lawlessness is an institution that does not follow due process of law\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>He cited his disciplinary hearing before the Council to support his argument, suggesting he was humiliated, insulted and mocked at by some senior judges on the Council. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that hearing, the kind of things that were said\u2026I beg that\u2019s why I usually don\u2019t want to waste my time on this issue,\u201d he said, and mentioned \u201cYou\u2019re a disgrace, what a crass, you\u2019ve turned yourself into ambulance\u201d among other statements used by the Council members against him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, if you go before the General Legal Council and senior judges at the General Legal Council ask you Mr Sosu do you want to use your law to do politics\u2026it\u2019s not fair\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhen you bring someone to a disciplinary hearing and you make reference to religion, creed, politics you can never be fair. <\/p>\n<p>What has that got to do with the reason why you bring the person before you?\u201d In his estimation, the Council is seeking to \u201cdestroy others in order to seek relevance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Using Martin Luther King\u2019s famous \u2018I have a dream\u2019 phrase, he said: \u201cI have a dream that one day the General Legal Council as it stands, will collapse and replace with a more constitutional body that is so open, that is willing to follow due process\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>He was disappointed that the Ghana Bar Association which ought to seek the interest of lawyers was \u201cin bed with\u201d the Council.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: 63 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 8 December 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-12-08 Francis Xavier Sosu Suspended legal practitioner, Francis Xavier Sosu, has descended heavily on Ghana\u2019s General Legal Council, describing the body as one of the lawless institutions in the country that has been victimizing lawyers. 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