Archibald Lartey Djabatey was a Ghanaian lawyer and former Attorney General of Ghana.
Djabatey hailed from
Odumase Krobo
Krobo Odumase is a town and capital of Lower Manya Krobo Municipal District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School was formerly located here.
Prominent sites
The town is a proposed site for the construction of ...
in the
Eastern Region of
Ghana
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. He received his
bachelor of laws
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degree from the
University of London
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and was called to the
Ghanaian Bar in 1964. Following his call to the bar, he subsequently became a State Attorney and later a Senior State Attorney. In 1979, during the third republic, he was appointed deputy Attorney General to the then Attorney General,
Joe Reindorf
Joe Reindorf (1924 – 1996) was a Ghanaian historian, lawyer and politician. He served in the third republic as Attorney General and minister for Justice of Ghana.
Early life and education
Formerly a pupil of Achimota School, his contemporar ...
. In 1980, when
Joe Reindorf
Joe Reindorf (1924 – 1996) was a Ghanaian historian, lawyer and politician. He served in the third republic as Attorney General and minister for Justice of Ghana.
Early life and education
Formerly a pupil of Achimota School, his contemporar ...
was moved to the Ministry of Local Government, Djabatey was elevated to the status of
Attorney General and Minister of Justice. Following the overthrow of the
Limann government
This is a listing of the ministers who served in Limann's People's National Party government during the Third Republic of Ghana. The Third Republic was inaugurated on 24 September 1979. It ended with the coup on 31 December 1981, which brought t ...
on 31 December 1981, he was replaced by
George Emmanuel Kwesi Aikens of the
PNDC government. Djabatey then moved to the
United Kingdom
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where he was called the
English Bar
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at
Gray's Inn
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in 1983.
He practiced with a chamber in
London
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in the proceeding years.
References
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20th-century Ghanaian lawyers
Attorneys General of Ghana
Justice ministers of Ghana