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A “Lawyer’s Lawyer” Ought to Know Better: A Reply to Beatrice Annan’s Ill-Informed Mockery of Afenyo-Markin’s Defamation Writ
Her 27 August mockery of the Minority Leader’s writ landed on the very same day that Abena Osei-Asare, MP for Atiwa East, Chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, and a banker and chartered accountant by training, published fresh findings pressing GoldBod for further and better particulars on the very same $1.
It is a public figure, one who trades on a reputation for legal fluency, using that reputation to suggest to the public that a serious defamation claim is theatre, built on nothing more than her own unfamiliarity with how the Court’s bailiff system operates and applied to a writ that was, at the time, only three days old.
By the time Mrs Annan posted her jibe on 27 August, three days had passed since both the writ was issued and the news of it first broke in Parliament.
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