{"id":239143,"date":"2026-07-20T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-judges-lawyers-take-legal-education-to-makola-market\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:25:07","slug":"ghana-judges-lawyers-take-legal-education-to-makola-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-judges-lawyers-take-legal-education-to-makola-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Judges, Lawyers Take Legal Education to Makola Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Judges and lawyers brought legal education to traders at the Makola Market on Saturday as part of activities marking the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The initiative marked the first time members of the Bench and the Bar had jointly stepped out to engage directly with the public on legal issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The exercise aimed, among other things, to dispel the perception that the judiciary and its officers are distant and do not readily interact with ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607200400.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges and lawyers brought legal education to traders at the Makola Market on Saturday as part of activities marking the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court. The initiative marked the first time members of the Bench and the Bar had jointly stepped out to engage directly with the public on legal issues. The exercise aimed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,1632,4508,4509,7031,8569,6393,12837,4356,257,254],"class_list":["post-239143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-judges","tag-lawyers","tag-legal","tag-makola","tag-market","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}