Archibald Lartey Djabatey was a Ghanaian lawyer and former Attorney General of Ghana. Djabatey hailed from

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in the Eastern Region of

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. He received his

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degree from the

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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,

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. In 1980, when

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

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on 31 December 1981, he was replaced by George Emmanuel Kwesi Aikens of the PNDC government. Djabatey then moved to the

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where he was called the

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in 1983. He practiced with a chamber in

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in the proceeding years.

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