Alhassan Yahaya Seini is a
Ghanaian
lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...
, and the former executive director and chairman of the
legal aid
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scheme.
Education
Seini obtained a
Bachelor of Laws degree from the
University of Ghana in 1981 and He is also a member of the
Ghana Bar Association
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is a professional association of lawyers in Ghana, including what used to be called solicitors and barristers but are now called legal practitioners, as well as magistrates.
By convention all lawyers admitted to pr ...
.
Occupation
Seini has worked as a research assistant at the institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the
University of Ghana in 1977. He was also the northern regional chairman of the national investigations committee from 1984 to 1990. Seini was a senior partner in law practice at
Yelinzo Chambers from 1991. He was an Assistant Director at the
Northern Regionbr>
Legal Aid Schemefrom 1996.
He later became the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Commission.
Personal life
Seini is from
Tamale in the
Northern Region of Ghana.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Dagomba people
Living people
People from Northern Region (Ghana)
20th-century Ghanaian lawyers
University of Ghana alumni
21st-century Ghanaian lawyers