Samuel Marful-Sau was an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
17 Facts About Samuel Marful-Sau
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Samuel Marful-Sau subsequently became an Appeal Court judge in 2006 and in 2018 he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
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Samuel Marful-Sau was nominated in 2018 by the president Nana Akufo-Addo in consultation with Council of State and the advice of the Judicial Council.
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Samuel Marful-Sau was born on 3 February 1956 at Assin Edubiase in the Assin South District of the Central Region.
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Samuel Marful-Sau began his formal education at Methodist Primary School in Assin Edubiase from 1963 to 1965.
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Samuel Marful-Sau continued his elementary education at Sempe '1' Primary and Middle School in Accra from 1965 to 1969, he later enrolled at the Urban Council Middle 'A' School at Mankessim where he studied from 1969 to 1972.
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Samuel Marful-Sau later enrolled at Breman Asikuma Secondary School in September 1974.
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Samuel Marful-Sau proceeded to Navrongo Secondary School in September 1977 and obtained his Advanced Level certificate there in June 1979.
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Samuel Marful-Sau entered the University of Ghana in August 1979 and graduated with his Bachelor of Laws degree in July 1982.
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Samuel Marful-Sau continued at the Ghana School of Law where he received his Barrister-at-Law in 1984.
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Samuel Marful-Sau was admitted to practice in Ghana as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor in 1984.
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Samuel Marful-Sau began his career as a national service personnel working in the capacity of a Legal Assistant at the Castle Information Bureau Office of the Provisional National Defence Council and briefly as a prosecutor in the office of the Special Public Prosecutor from August 1984 to July 1986.
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Samuel Marful-Sau remained in private legal practice until June 2002 when he was called to the bench as a judge of the High Court.
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Samuel Marful-Sau rose through the ranks as a justice of the high court to a justice of the appeal court, serving in that capacity from November 2006 to 2018 when he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
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Samuel Marful-Sau was nominated together with three other judges by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo in 2018.
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Samuel Marful-Sau was part of a seven-member panel that will be hearing the 2020 election petition by John Mahama against The Electoral Commission of Ghana and Nana Akufo-Addo.
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Samuel Marful-Sau died on 10 August 2021 at the Ga East Hospital after a short illness.