Commercial law deserves research and scholarly attention – Justice Date-Bah
Justice Date-Bah who also wrote the foreword to the book, stated that commercial law is essential to the legal infrastructure for development.
Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Date-Bah has indicated that scholars ought to pay attention to the area of law on commercial matters.
Speaking on video at the launch of a sourcebook on commercial law in Ghana, he noted that currently there is increasing litigation on commercial matters in Ghana.
Justice Date-Bah who also wrote the foreword to the book, stated that commercial law is essential to the legal infrastructure for development.
“The Ghana legal system will reap the full benefits of the current level of litigation only if the current generation of law teachers and scholarly legal practitioners and judges apply themselves to the meticulous analysis of this enhanced volume of case law,” he admonished.
The book, Commercial Law in Ghana: Sourcebook was authored by Lawyer Clement Akapame and Lawyer Lom Nuku Ahlijah.
The book is divided into two broad areas, the substantive and the procedural.
It covers areas on the regulatory legislation on the Sale of Goods Act (1962), Act 137, Payment Systems and Services Act (2019), Act 987, Banking, the Law of Agency, Hire Purchase, Commercial Litigation, and Arbitration.
According to the authors, the book started as a project to gather Ghanaian material on commercial law, with an aim to also provide law students and practitioners with references on the subject from a Ghanaian perspective.
“So together with Clement, we decided to take this project on and on. What can we do to complete a text material, that would be useful not only to students but also to practitioners? Because as I said, most of the materials we rely on is mainly international references from England and other places, ” co-author Lom Nuku Ahlijah said.
Lawyer Clement Akapame while acknowledging the contribution of judges at the commercial courts added that their analysis was done “through the text and voices of the judges.”
“Commercial law in Ghana: Sourcebook stands out as the first comprehensive academic text on commercial law in Ghana, covering the full range of approved topics for the teaching and learning of commercial law in Ghana,” Professor Christine Dowuona-Hammond said during her review of the book.
The first copy of the book sold for GHC 20, 000.00
