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Philip Edward Archer

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Africa and the Middle East

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Philip Edward Archer (1925-2002) was a Ghanaian judge who served as the eighth Chief Justice of Ghana, appointed by Jerry Rawlings, from 1991 to 1995. Admitted as a solicitor in England in 1957, he returned to Ghana to serve as registrar-general in 1959 and judicial secretary in 1961 before joining the High Court bench in 1964 and the Supreme Court in 1980; after retiring from the bench in 1983 he chaired Ghana's Law Reform Commission full time. Following his tenure as Chief Justice he was appointed to the Council of State in 1995 and received the Order of the Star of Ghana in 2000.

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He was the eighth person to hold this position since Ghana became an independent nation.
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