The Court of Appeal has adjourned the hearing of an application for a stay of execution by suspended human rights lawyer, Francis Xavi Sosu, over his suspension from legal practice by the General Legal Council.<\/p>\n
The adjournment followed a request by lawyers for the Council to consult their clients following what they call new allegations against some officers of the Legal Council.<\/p>\n
Francis Sosu filed the application seeking to put on hold his three-year suspension from the legal profession pending the final determination of his appeal by the court.<\/p>\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”KLbbR74GblBd1eAOiTE6bBG45TXe9qNt”]The Ghana Legal Council earlier in June 2017, banned Francis Xavier-Sosu, a renowned Human Rights lawyer, from practicing as a lawyer for three years, for overcharging a client, one Francis Agyare, when he represented him in a Human Right case in Accra.<\/p>\n It said that, within the 3-year period, Lawyer Xavier-Sosu \u201cshall not hold himself out as a Legal Practitioner or attend Chambers, or render, or purport to render any professional legal service to any person whomsoever, wheresoever.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the Legal Council, Lawyer Xavier-Sosu charged his client GH\u00a250,000, which was \u201cexcessive\u201d and an \u201coverestimation\u201d for the services rendered, although he [Sosu] had told the client he was offering his legal services for free.<\/p>\n But the embattled lawyer appealed<\/strong><\/a><\/span> the council\u2019s decision and subsequently applied for a stay of execution<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of his 3-year ban.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Court of Appeal has adjourned the hearing of an application for a stay of execution by suspended human rights lawyer, Francis Xavi Sosu, over his suspension from legal practice by the General Legal Council. The adjournment followed a request by lawyers for the Council to consult their clients following what they call new allegations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[7745,3,3841],"class_list":["post-333880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-francis-xavier-sosu","tag-ghana-news","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}