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Our Star is a reliable and respected law reporter at the Council for Law Reporting, Publishers and editors of the Ghana Law Reports. Our Star is a prolific legal text writer who has to his name over 8 books stretching Courtroom practice and procedure and substantive law.

Away from law reporting, our Star is an avid courtroom practitioner with vast experience in land litigation, commercial, corporate and criminal practice. Our Star is a Member of the Ghana Association of Writers and the legal adviser to the Association. He is a former Research Assistant, Ghana Monthly Judgments (Law Report of the Superior Courts of Ghana) and one of the Chief-Editors of the Supreme Court Nuggets (2020) and (2021), as published by Dennislaw.

In his adept appraisal and reporting of Law, our Star, a 'legal vigilante' is also famed by his invocation of the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court leading to the landmark decision of DERICK ADU-GYAMFI v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL [TLP-SC-2023-07]. Aside Derick Adu-Gyamfi v A-G, our Star is linked with a number of Superior Court decisions.

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In consultancy, Our Star has offered legal Consultancy services through CQ Legal. He is/was an Advisory Board Member of Esoko Ghana Limited and currently a co-opted member on the Regulations and Standards committee of the Board of the Creative Arts Agency.

The Law Platform pleasantly celebrates the brainy, well published, litigation experienced and dependable Derick Adu-Gyamfi Esq.

EDUCATION

QCL - Ghana School of Law, Makola- Accra, (Oct 2014 – Sep 2016)

Bachelor of Laws - LLB - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, (Aug 2009 – Sep 2013)

BA, Economics and Mathematics - University of Cape Coast (Aug 2003 – Oct 2007)

SOME PUBLICATIONS

1. Legal Reference Book volumes 1& 2 (Foreword by His Lordsahip Justice Batu, then a Supervising High Court Judge in Kumasi, Ashanti-Region (2014 & 2015)

2. Derick on Pleadings in Ghana (2016) (Foreword by His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana)

3.Handbook on Probate and administration Practice (with precedent 2018)) (Foreword by His Lordship Justice Jones Dotse, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana)

4. Law and Practice relating to motions and affidavits in Ghana (with precedent) (2018) (Foreword by His Lordship Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, Justice of the Court of Appeal and Member of Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences)

5.Handbook on Enforcement of Judgments (Practice and Procedure) (2020) (Foreword by His Lordship Justice Yaw Appau, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana)

6. Appellate Practice in Ghanaian Courts ( Principles and Procedure) (2020) (Foreword by Her Ladyship Margaret A. Dordzie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana).

7. Award of Damages and Equitable Remedies in Ghanaian Courts. (Foreword by His Lordship Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.)

8. Law of Defamation, Practice and Procedure in Ghana. (Foreword by His Lordship Justice Amadu Tanko, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

9. The Annotated Evidence Act, 1975 (NRCD 323) in Ghana.