Your legal practice shouldn’t end at the Circuit Courts- MP tells law students

The Deputy Majority leader and MP for the Efutu Constituency in the Central Region, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has advised upcoming lawyers not to limit their practice to the Circuit Courts.

According to him, the practice at the Supreme Court is a test of the strength of a lawyer thus tasked the students to aim at getting to that level.

“Practice at the Supreme Court is to test your strength. Don’t be the lawyer whose practice will end at the Circuit Courts. There are a lot of lawyers in this country who will not take up a case even up to the High Court and at the Court of Appeal, they would run away. As for the Supreme Court, they wouldn’t even dare.”

Delivering a speech at the 7th Legal luminary Platform at the University of Cape Coast, he thus charged the students to endure all the disappointments and challenges and aim to challenge the law at the apex court.

Additionally, he indicated that there exists a vast difference between the practice field and what happens in the various law classrooms.

“Let me draw your attention as students to the challenges ahead of you in your chosen career for the rest of your lives. The practice of law is not as straightforward as you think it may be.

The law you read is not the law you practice.”

Also, he mentioned that the law has taken various forms and shapes and does not take timorous souls to make changes in society using the law.

Moreover, Hon Markin was blunt about the fact that there exist disappointments and intimidations in the way of legal practice which may come from judges, and colleague lawyers but urged the students to embrace these as a learning experience when they do.

He thus took the opportunity to acknowledge Supreme Court Justices and colleague lawyers who have positively impacted his legal practice.