Don’t let money lure you into studying law – Legal Practitioner advises

The Upper West Regional President of the Ghana Bar Affiliation (GBA), Mr. Ubeidu Siddique, has recommended persons desiring to pursue a vocation in legislation not to allow materials points to be their motivation.

He said legal professionals must exhibit substantial personalized integrity and discipline. He noted that, “If dollars is your commitment, you will be exiting just as you are coming into.”

Mr. Siddique gave the advice at the Regulation Specific For each-Period Forum at the SD Dombo University of Company and Integrated Progress Reports (SDD-UBIDS) in Wa on Tuesday.

The event was organized by the Law Convey in collaboration with the SDD-UBIDS to persuade people today to take into account getting up career in the industry of regulation as properly as to produce a system for stakeholders to explore the introduction of a law programme at the University.

It was on the topic: “Educational and Job Potential customers in Legislation,” and introduced alongside one another legal individuals in the location to share their encounters in the law career with the members.

Mr. Siddique, who is also the Higher West Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) said, “as a law firm, you have to be diligent, skillful, ethical, truthful, and hardworking. If you want to grow to be a attorney and you are lazy, overlook it.”

Conversing on the potential clients in regulation, the Regional GBA President observed that there are quite a few options in the study of regulation. He stated, “one detail fantastic about legislation is that you can perform in any setting. Every placing wants a attorney.”

He, as a result pledged the guidance of the Association to the SDD-UBIDS in its quest to start a legislation programme at the College to propel the growth of the faculty.

Professor Philip Duku Osei, the Vice Chancellor of the SDD-UBIDS, explained strategies are much superior for the commencement of the legislation programme and urged for help of the stakeholders to let it arrive to fruition.

He commended the organisers of the forum for creating the platform for discussion on the introduction of the programme and said it is portion of fulfilling their mandate as a university.

On her portion, Madam Nuhela Seidu, the convener of the forum and host of the Law Specific, said the initiative was amongst other targets, aimed to educate the community on their legal rights and tasks to empower them seek out justice when the have to have arose.

Madam Seidu, a legal practitioner, said the forum would transcend from supporting the introduction of the legislation programme at the SDD-UBIDS to ensuring that the section thrives to turn into a single of the most effective in the state.

Some of the contributors expressed the hope that a legislation school would be established in the northern component of the nation in the close to long term to provide the review of the occupation to the doorsteps of the people today.

Mr Clement Eledi, the Supervising Higher Court Judge in Wa, and a former President of the Higher West Regional GBA, between other dignitaries, attended the event.