The current Attorney General is Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame. He was appointed by President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo in 2021.
Godfred Yeboah DameThe Attorney-General & Minister for Justice of Ghana Godfred Yeboah Dame was born on June 5, 1979.
Godfred Yeboah DameAssumed office January 2021PresidentNana Akufo-AddoPreceded byGloria AkuffoDeputy Attorney-General and Deputy Minister for Justice15 more rows
Betty Mould-Iddrisu (born 22 March 1953) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. She was the Minister for Education in Ghana....Betty Mould-IddrisuEducationAccra AcademyAlma materUniversity of Ghana London School of EconomicsProfessionLawyerKnown forFirst female Attorney General of Ghana19 more rows
She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt. Reno was born and raised in Miami, Florida....Janet RenoPreceded byWilliam BarrSucceeded byJohn AshcroftState's Attorney for Miami-Dade CountyIn office 1978–199316 more rows
Abubakar Malami SAN (born 17 April 1967), is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who since 2015 is serving as Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation.
Cynthia MorrisonThe head of the ministry is the Minister of Women and Children's Affairs and Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection....Minister of the MWCA and MGCSP.YearMinister2018–2020Cynthia Morrison (MP)6 more rows
The Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court is the highest Court in the administration of justice in Ghana. The Court is presided over by the Chief Justice and in his absence the most senior of the Justices of the Supreme Court, as constituted shall preside. Judges who sit in the Supreme Court are referred to as Justices of the Supreme Court.
In layman terms, Chief Justice is a Judge and Attorney General is a Lawyer, both have distinct roles to play. The Attorney General of India is the highest law officer of the country and he/she is the chief legal advisor to the GoI. He is responsible to assist the government in all its legal matters.Feb 20, 2020
68 years (March 22, 1953)Betty Mould-Iddrisu / Age
Rod Jay Rosenstein (/ˈroʊzənˌstaɪn/; born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019....Rod RosensteinPresidentGeorge W. Bush Barack Obama Donald TrumpPreceded byThomas M. DiBiagioSucceeded byRobert K. HurPersonal details18 more rows
The policy objectives of the Legal Aid Scheme have remained the same. They are derived from Article 294 of the Constitution and the Legal Aid Scheme Act, 1997 (Act 542).
The Copyright Office is the Government Agency responsible for the implementation of the copyright and related statutes and regulations.
The Attorney General is responsible for any civil cases and acts as the defendant on behalf of Ghana.
Following Ghana's independence in 1957, the Ministry of Interior and Justice was split to form the Ministry of Justice (becoming a ministry on its own) and the Ministry Interior. This time, the Ministry of Justice did not oversee the Attorney General department as a Ministry for the Attorney General had been created on 7 August 1957 ...
Ako-Adjei then became the first Minister of Justice for Ghana from 1957 to 1958. The Ministry was responsible for the functions of the Land Boundaries Settlement Commission, financial and ministerial matters with relation to the Supreme Court, local court and Customary Law, and foreign processes. In 1958, the ministry was merged with ...
The Ministry of Justice was created in 1951 after the Lidbury Commission was established to come up with recommendations upon reviewing the Gold Coast Civil Service. The commission established that the establishment of ministries by the then newly established Gold Coast government, headed by Kwame Nkrumah ...