A few years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of an international conference in Accra. At one of the group sessions, the issue of lawyer advertising came up. I argued forcefully against the current rules that prohibit advertising and described them as colonial relics that have become shorn of their relevance. The other participants applauded me “to the very echo”. The then President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), who chaired the session, disagreed with me. Those rules together with a few other undesirable ones continue to sit pretty on our statute books. England The practice of law in England with its Greco-Roman influences, rules, conventions and practices dates as far back as...
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