Notary Public Practice gets localised content literature

A book on ‘Notaries’ Public Practice in Ghana’, the first of its kind, has been published to serve as a guide for notaries’ education and practical literature review within the local context.

The 1,500-page book, titled ‘Notaries Public Practice in Ghana: The Law, Cases and Materials, discusses in detail the legal framework and practice of notaries public as a branch of the legal system.

A Notary Public refers to a public officer who attests or certifies writings such as a deed to make them authentic and takes affidavits, depositions and protests of negotiable paper.

The Chief Justice, Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, in a speech read on her behalf by High Court Judge Justice Richard Apietu at the launch, described the book as an invaluable resource significant for the enhancement of legal education, especially notaries’ practice in the country.

She emphasised that with the growth of notaries’ practice within the jurisdiction, there was a need to provide requisite legal tools to assist them perform appropriately within requirements.

“It is important that standards of professional notaries practice within the jurisdiction are kept in accord with parallel global standards,” she said.

The author, legal practitioner and researcher Daniel Yaw Abaidoo, goes back in time to the 13th century to discover for readers the evolution of the subject’s legal history, its practice from the colonial to immediate independence era and how notarial practice is regulated.

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