Attorney-General Godfred Dame has said that since 2021, when he assumed office as Attorney-General and the official leader of the Bar, the number of lawyers on the Roll of Lawyers has more than doubled with the enrolment of more than 4,000 new lawyers.He notes that the newly sworn-in president of the Ghana Bar Association Mrs.
Ghartey, therefore, leads the Bar at a time when the questions of quality of practice and observance of ethics and standards at the Bar have assumed prime significance with the exponential growth of the Bar.An increase in numbers always leads to concerns about the maintenance of quality in our side of the universe, he said."We are already witnessing a decline in standards of practice to worrying depths.
Ethics is jettisoned in the dishonourable quest of some lawyers to win a case or score cheap political points especially."The Bar Association owes a duty to drive home the point that the privilege to practise law comes with a moral and legal duty to uphold the dignity of the profession and ensure that the privileged call to the Bar is not abused through unprincipled and disreputable conduct. It is only when practitioners maintain the highest standards of ethics that the nobility of the legal profession will be preserved.
There cannot be any compromise on this."The Bar must prevent and condemn each and every act of illegal pressure on the Judiciary.