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Profile of Special Prosecutor nominee, Kissi Agyebeng

Jonas NyaborbyJonas Nyabor
April 26, 2021
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PERSONAL BIO-DATA

Date of Birth : 2 July 1978

Hometown : Nkwatia, Kwahu

Marital Status : Married

Religion : Christian

 

EDUCATION

Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York

Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, International Commercial Arbitration, International Economic Relations (WTO) and International Business Transactions, received May 2006

Editor: Cornell LL.M. Newsletter.

Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Marine and Environmental Law, received May 2005.

Ghana School of Law, Accra, Ghana

Professional Law Course (2001-2003)

Academic Honor: E.N. Sowah Memorial Award for Best Student in Family Law

University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), received May 2001.

Academic Honours: First Class Honors; Bentsi-Enchill Award for Best Graduating Law Student

Accra Academy, Accra, Ghana

GCE Ordinary Level – 1994

GCE Advanced Level – 1996

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LAW PRACTICE

Cromwell Gray LLP (Law Firm), Accra (Since 2014)

Managing Partner

Ayine and Felli (Law Firm), Accra (2009 – 2013)

Senior Associate

Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) (Human Rights/Public Interest Law Firm), Accra (2008 – 2009)

Senior Associate

Zoe, Akyea and Co. (Law Firm), Accra (2003 – 2007)

Associate

 

SPECIAL POSITIONS

Chairman, Electronic Communications Tribunal, Ghana (Since 2019) Notary Public, Republic of Ghana (Since 2019) Vice Chairman, Appeals Committee, Ghana Football Association (2017 – 2018) Associate – African Center for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention (Since 2010) National Coordinator – Commonwealth Moot Court Competition on International Criminal Justice (Since 2017) Former Editor, Ghana Monthly Judgments (2008-2009)

ACADEMIA

University of Ghana School of Law, Legon (Since 2006)

Lecturer: Criminal Law; International Humanitarian law; International Law; Company Law; Commercial Law; Legal Research and Writing.

Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA), Faculty of Law, Greenhill (2013 – 2014)

Lecturer: Criminal Law

Central University College, Faculty of Law, Accra (2013)

Lecturer: Criminal Law

Mountcrest University, Faculty of Law, Accra (2012)

Lecturer: Criminal Law

Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) – Ghana Armed Forces Staff College, Teshie, Accra

(2011)

Lecturer – International Humanitarian Law

Regional Maritime University, Nungua, Accra

(2009)

Adjunct Lecturer – Law of the Sea

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Admitted to the Ghana Bar in 2003

Member, Ghana Bar Association

 

SELECTED CASES CONDUCTED

Republic v. High Court, Accra; ex parte Commission for Human Rights & Administrative Justice (Addo – Interested Party) [2003-2004] SCGLR 312

Standard Chartered Bank v. Victoria Island Properties & ANZ Grindlays Bank Ltd. [2007-2008] 2 SCGLR 721

Republic v. Kwabena Amaning alias Tagor & Anor. (2009), Court of Appeal, Accra

Standard Bank Offshore Trust Company Ltd (substituted by Dominion Corporate Trustees Ltd.) v. National Investment Bank & Ors. (2010), High Court, Accra

Justice Dery v. Tiger Eye PI, Chief Justice & Attorney-General [2015-2016] SCGLR 812

Justices Logoh, Dery & Ayisi-Addo v. Tiger Eye PI, Chief Justice & Attorney-General [2015-2016] 2 SCGLR 1052

Gabby Otchere-Darko v. Kevin Ekow Ebow Taylor (2020), High Court, Accra

 

STATE INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED

Volta River Authority

Ghana National Petroleum Corporation

National Lottery Authority

Youth Employment Authority

Ghana Trade Fair Company

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Theory in Search of Practice – The Right of Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea”, 39 CORNELL INT’L L. J., (2006) p 371.
“The Prophecies of the Prophetic Jurist – A Review of Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” (2005). Cornell Law School LL.M. Papers Series. Paper10. http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/lps/papers/10
“Disappearing Acts – Toward a Global Civil Liability Regime for Pollution Damage Resulting from Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration” (2006). Cornell Law School LL.M. Papers Series. Paper 11

http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/lps/papers/11
“Minority Rights in Corporate Governance in Ghana: The End of the Rule in Foss v. Harbottle?”, in Ghana Law Since Independence: History, Development and Prospects, Mensa-Bonsu et al eds, 73 (Black Mask Ltd, 2007)
“To Disclose or Not to Disclose the Offence – That is the Question: The Case of Allan William Hodgson” (2008-2010) 24 UGLJ 87
A Commitment to Law, Development & Public Policy – A Festschrift in Honour of Nana Dr. SKB Asante (Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, London, 2016) – co-editor with Richard Frimpong Oppong
Conflict of Laws in Ghana (Sedco Publishing, Accra, (upcoming February 2021)) – co-author with Richard Frimpong Oppong

FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow – Canadian International Development Agency Fellowship for the Marine and

Environmental Law Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Fellow – Institute of African Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

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