Alexander Kobina Baah Ampiah is a retired
Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge
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. He served on the
Supreme Court
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bench from 1993 to 2003. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court bench, he was a lawyer who rose through the ranks as a judge of the High Court to the bench of the Appeals Court of Ghana.
Career
Ampiah studied law in the
UK. He qualified as a barrister and practised privately at Aumog chambers at Cape Coast, in partnership with Mr. Justice Isaac Kobina Donkor Abban, who later joined the judiciary service and subsequently became Chief Justice from 2001 to 2006. Ampiah rose through the ranks from a High Court judge to an Appeals Court judge prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court Bench on 6 January 1993. While in the judiciary service, he served as the president of the
Ghana Football Association (GFA) Congress, the highest decision-making body of the association.
Ampiah retired as a Supreme Court Judge on 25 July 2003. In 2009 he was appointed chairman of the
University of Cape Coast council by the then
president of Ghana;
John Evans Atta Mills. In 2011 he was awarded the
Order of the Volta award for his service to the nation.
See also
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List of judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana
This is a list of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana. The Constitution of Ghana provides for the court to be made up of the Chief Justice of Ghana and not less than nine other Justices of the Supreme Court. It shall be duly constituted by at ...
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Supreme Court of Ghana
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References
Living people
Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana
Year of birth missing (living people)
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