Chief Justice warns Akufo-Addo’s lawyer

Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has cautioned Frank Davies, one of the lawyers representing President Akufo-Addo in the ongoing Election Petition against granting media interviews at the end of sittings.

To him, the move offends the principles of the bar, where a Lawyer actively engaged in case in court to address the Press in his full regalia.

He raised the matter at the beginning of today’s [February 1, 2021] sitting, and said the court was uncomfortable with Mr. Davies granting media interviews after trial.

“Mr. Frank Davies, we respectfully want to draw your attention to the Legal Professional conduct and Ethical Rules of 2020. If you look at rule 38, the court is not comfortable with the post-trial interviews that you grant outside,” he said.

Quoting the rule, Justice Anin-Yeboah said, “A lawyer who is practising or has participated in the investigation or litigation of a matter that is still pending before a court shall not make an out-of-court statement or grant an interview to the media on the matter.”