<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.ghanabar.org </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is a professional association of lawyers in Ghana, including what used to be called solicitors and barristers but are now called legal practitioners, as well as magistrates . By convention all lawyers admitted to practice in Ghana become automatic members of the association . The first president of the Ghanaian Bar was Sierra Leonean lawyer Frans Dove . </P> <P> The British parliament established the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Gold Coast Colony in 1876, with a Chief Justice and no more than four Puisne Justices . John Mensah Sarbah was the first native of Ghana to be called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1887 . The legal system was based on that of England, in which solicitors provide legal advice and prepare legal documents while barristers act as advocates in court . However, this division was not observed in practice in Ghana, and in 1960 an act abolished the distinction . Until the Ghana School of Law was established in 1958, all lawyers were trained abroad, almost always at the Inns of Court in England . As of 2011 there are about 2,500 practicing lawyers, although not all have registered as members of the Bar Association . </P> <P> Nene Amegatcher was elected as president of the GBA on 20 September 2012, with Peter Zwennes as his vice . </P>

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