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Administrative Law

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Our lawyers in Ghana are experienced in providing the highest quality public law advice informed by a detailed knowledge and understanding of government and government processes.

We advise both public and private sector clients on a wide range of matters arising from the development, passage, content, interpretation and application of laws and regulations, as well as dispute resolution and investigative processes, including judicial review, public inquiries, statutory appeals and tribunal processes.

Experience has included advising:

  • A Ghana mining company in relation to allegations of environmental breaches made against it by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and sanctions imposed on it by the EPA including suspension of mining activities.
  • Abosso Goldfields Ltd at the High Court in a judicial review application brought against it by a former employee who had been dismissed.
  • Clients such as Hollard Insurance Ghana Limited, Quality Insurance Company Limited, Old Mutual Life Insurance Ghana Limited and Wapic Insurance Ghana Limited in proceedings before statutory adjudicating bodies such as the National Labour Commission.
  • An international financial institution which involved undertaking an evaluation of the credit enforcement process within the Borrowers and Lenders Act, 2008 (Act 773) in respect of which the we undertook a survey and provided a written report of findings and policy recommendations.
  • A joint venture with government participation set up to construct and operate a petroleum import, export and storage terminal and associated infrastructure in relation to the legal effect of a Zonalization Policy issued on 26 March 2015 under the auspices of the Ministry of Petroleum, and whether the policy may be enforced against the regulator, National Petroleum Authority (NPA) should it fail to implement it terms as well as whether the NPA can enforce its terms against companies that fail to comply with the policy.
  • A product and service provider in relation to its activities in the upstream petroleum sector and which involved advising on local content requirements under the Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations, 2013 and compliance with the Regulations as well as providing responses to local content queries and the observations made by the Petroleum Commission (PC) in certain correspondence with the product and service provider.