Fwd: {UAH} Profile of Professor Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe-author of the UPC pigeon hole constitution of 1966

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Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Subject: {UAH} Profile of Professor Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe-author of the UPC pigeon hole constitution of 1966
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quick facts

Birth 
29th October 1923

Place of Birth 
Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana)

Known For 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. 
Chairman, Constituent Assembly for the drafting of the 1979 Constitution for Ghana.
First Parliamentary Counsel and Constitutional Adviser to the Ugandan Government. 
Director, Commonwealth Secretariat Scheme for Legislative Draftsmen, for the West Africa, East Africa, Southern and Central Africa Regions and the Caribbean Region. 
Drafted the Guiding Principles for UNESCO in the field of Education, Scientific and Cultural Exchanges.
Senior Instructor, International Law Development Centre, Rome, Italy. 
Professor of Legislative Drafting, the University of West Indies, Cape Hill Campus, Barbados.

Commissioner, Statute Law Revision
Accra, Ghana .

Justice Crabbe was born in Accra in the then Gold Coast, now Ghana on 29th October 1923 at 1600hrs. He is the last born of his parents. 
He attended the Government Junior Boys School in Jamestown, Accra, after which he attended  Government Senior Boys School at Kimbu, now called Technical......In those days it was a great achievement because on completion one could go into the Public Service. He attended Accra Academy and soon after worked with the civilian branch of the Ghana Police Headquarters. He then went on to study Economics at the City of London College at Moorgate and read Law at the Honorable society of the Inner Temple. He was admitted in August 1952 and sat the final bar exam in September 1954 after which he was granted a year's dispensation and called to the bar in February 1955 in the U.K. He came back to Ghana in May 1955 as assistant Crown Counsel and rose to be in charge of the drafting of the legislation. In 1963 he was sent to the Uganda Government and drafted the Ugandan constitution.
          After the 1966 coup Justice Crabbe was appointed Special Commissioner to the 1968 Constitutional commission and was the draftsman to the 1969 constituent Assembly. In 1978 he was appointed member of the 1978 Constitutional Commission and also the chairman of the Constituent's Assembly which drafted the 1979 Constitution. In the Mean time, he was appointed the Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat Scheme Legislative drafting in West Africa. During this time he had to go to Nairobi in Kenya in 1982, from there to Zimbabwe in 1983 then went to University of West Indies as Professor of Law.
In 1999 Justice Crabbe returned to Ghana and started the Law revision exercise to revise the laws of Ghana.

"Service to man is service to God"

"Our actions are ours. Their consequences belong to heaven"

"Obstacles are stepping stones to progress and success"

"Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and live in the affirmative"

"A doctor has never certified hard work as a cause of death''

"Big gates swing on little hinges"

"Consistency is a virtue only when facts are consistent. When facts change a man must change his views. Failure to do so is not the characteristic of a well- developed man. It is a stamp of a difficult mule

 

 

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