2024 Call to the Bar: KNUST Law Alumnus wins highest award
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He also won the Best Student award in Civil Procedure.
An alumnus of the KNUST Law Faculty, Waana-Ang, Martin has been adjudged the best student of the 2024 Call to the Bar.
He also won the Best Student award in Civil Procedure.
Martin, who is a past president of the Law Students Union(LSU) at the KNUST Faculty of Law, was adjudged the second-best-scored candidate in the 2022 Ghana School of Law Entrance exams.
ABOUT MARTIN
Martin Waana-ang hails from Jirapa in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He had his secondary Education at St. Francis Xavier Junior Seminary, Wa.
Whilst in KNUST Martin participated in various extracurricular activities and worked as a legal intern at the prestigious Kulendi@Law, on very high-profile cases. He was with the faculty moot team in conducting research for various moot Competitions including the prestigious Jessup Moot Court Competition.
In 2021, he represented the Faculty of Law at the 30th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. In 2022 he represented the faculty to win the 2022 Edition of the Baffour Osei Akoto moot Court Competition organized by the Ghana School of Law and was adjudged the best oralist in the preliminary rounds.
Currently, he has about seven (8) published articles to his name touching on very controversial issues of the law. One of which is the Legal implications of Covid-19 on Ghana’s 2020 Elections, which was privileged to have been examined in the 2020 Entrance Examination by the General Legal Council. He has also authored a book on the Law of Torts in Ghana, entitled: A Practical Student’s Guide to the Law of Torts in Ghana, which has proven to be worthwhile.
Martin is a student mentor, who delights in helping students better appreciate the law and thus has mentored and tutored many students at the Faculty of Law and is currently the Country Director of the Federation of African Law Students.
He aspires to be a distinguished and accomplished lawyer in Ghana with a special interest in Constitutional Law, Oil and gas Law, Maritime Law, Law of Taxation, and international law. Above all, he aspires to contribute his quota to the development of the Ghana Legal System at Ghana’s Apex Court, the Supreme Court.
