A book for keeps: ‘Contemporary and Evolving issues in Civil Procedure and Litigation’ by Osei Tutu J
By Richard Osei Boateng
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The book is expected to be launched on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, at the Law Courts Auditorium on the John Evans Atta Mills Streets, in Accra at exactly 02: 30 pm.
The new book by His Lordship, Justice Osei Tutu is a manual for judges, legal practitioners, academics, and law students. One cannot afford not to have it because it navigates the rules of procedure, issues, jurisdiction, capacity, legal technicalities, and types of order among others.
The 21-chapter book by the renowned academic and judge revisits procedure by giving its readers a deep glimpse of how to do it right, taking a peek through the changing face of our laws, giving an insight into the blue law, the Norwich Pharmacal order as well as the power of the Chief Justice to suspend a superior court judge.
A reader is thus sure to be armed with these very powerful tools in scaling through the evolving issues in civil procedure and litigation in the contemporary juridical era since one would be opened up to the challenging perspectives to evolve into the very topical areas in Ghana’s civil procedure regime.
The book is expected to be launched on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, at the Law Courts Auditorium on the John Evans Atta Mills Streets, in Accra at exactly 02: 30 pm.
Chapter one opens with the learned author taking readers through his in-depth analysis of ‘REVISITING PROCEDURE: DOING IT RIGHT!” and closes with the author’s emphases on the usefulness of the provision to lawyers in handling cases and to the bench, especially the trial courts and Rules of Courts Committee in their operations and processes.
In the last chapter, which ends on ‘CIRCUMSCRIBING THE SCOPE OF ARTICLE 146 OF THE 1992 CONSTITUTION’, the learned author stresses;
‘It must be emphasized that the power of the Apex Court to interpret the Constitution does not extend to rewriting it.” He therefore closes the chapter by calling on the Apex court to seize the opportunity in the coming days to clarify the point once and for all.
REVIEWS
The Chief Justice, HL Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey-Torkornoo in her foreword, indicates;
‘ As a gift that will keep giving every day to judges, legal practitioners, academics, and law students as they attempt to navigate rules of procedure, issues of jurisdiction, capacity, legal technicalities, types of orders, and many more. I will keep it very close as a handbook for case management, and I recommend it for that purpose.”
A Justice of the Supreme Court, His Lordship Yaw Darko Asare, adds that;
“Contemporary and Evolving Issues in Civil Procedure and Litigation is a brilliant and lucid expose that opens up challenging perspectives into evolving and topical areas of civil procedure in Ghana. The book is thought-provoking as it is insightful.”
Additionally, the renowned Justice of the Court of Appeal, His Lordship Eric Kyei Baffour, indicates that;
“Contemporary and Evolving Issues in Civil Procedure and Litigation is a giant leap in our legal constellation that would be relevant beyond the next century.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Until August 2023, Justice Alexander osei Tutu was on secondment to the Gambia. He completed the University of Ghana in 2000 and was called to the Ghana Bar in 2002. He holds an LLM in International Human Rights from Fordham University, New York(USA). Between 2002 and 2010, he was in private practice in Kumasi. On his appointment to the Bench in 2010, he was posted to the Dormaa Ahenkro Circuit Court and elevated to the High Court in 2013. Among the High Courts he presided over are the Sunyani High Court; the Lands Court, Tema; and the Land Court ‘6’ Accra. He is the author of Essential Themes in Land Law and Customary Law.
