NDC Appoints Top Notch Lawyer As Legal Director For Eastern Region

In their quest to win power in the December 2024 elections the NDC is leaving no stone unturned.

Their new Director of Legal is Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi, a highly competent, experienced, and extremely knowledgeable lawyer that anyone can find in Ghana at the moment.

He has practiced for 22 years both in and outside Ghana and has demonstrated abilities in many spheres making him a hot cake for the NDC.

From his profile a copy of which we have obtained Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi stands tall as a ready material for the NDC who will fit into any position when the party gets into power next year.

This is a lawyer who has over the years carved a niche for himself as a very competent and knowledgeable person who consistently demonstrate results and achievements wherever he finds himself.

Aside the very strong profile of Lawyer Larbi our enquiries also show that he is one of the top notch lawyers around in Ghana now and his addition to the NDC team leading up to the elections is a game changer.

This is a lawyer who has a Supreme Court decision appearing in the law reports which serves as an authority, an achievement that is very  enviable amongst lawyers and judges.

Below is his detailed profile:

PROFILE OF LAWYER ISAAC MINTA LARBI.

Mr. Isaac Minta Larbi is the Head of Chambers at The Law Office of Isaac M. Larbi, Okore Chambers, Adweso, E/R established in March 2010. He was called to the Ghana Bar in October 2002 and has over 22 years of legal experience practicing as a lawyer in Ghana and beyond. He also has over 14 years managing his private law firm.

Mr. Larbi holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC, USA in December 2003. Before then Mr. Larbi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Ghana (2000), and a Barrister at Law (B.L.) from the Ghana School of Law, (2002).

He was awarded the “Academic Consortium Certificate of Excellence” by the Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone, in October, 2003. He was also awarded the 2002 Dean Grossman Scholarship in International Law, American University Washington College of Law and the ILSP International Law Scholarship, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, USA. 

Mr. Larbi is a product of the Lester B. Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Center in Nova Scotia, Canada, where he trained in peacekeeping operations and also a product of the International Law Institute, Washington, D.C., USA. 

Lawyer Larbi has participated in many programs around the world including The Global Alliance for Justice Education World Conference in Durban, South Africa, as well as the American Society of International Law programs in Washington D.C., USA.

His area of expertise includes Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, International Project Finance Law, Trade and Investment, Commercial Arbitration, Transnational Litigation, and Intellectual Property Law. 

His previous employment includes working at the Center for International Policy (CIP) as a Legal Researcher and also for the War Crimes Research Office all in Washington DC, USA. 

His legal research at the CIP contributed to the Publication of the Book titled “Capitalism’s Achilles Heel” by Raymond Baker, a then Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC. The book was voted “One of the Best Business Books in the Year 2005” by the Financial Times of the USA. 

In 2016 Mr. Larbi represented his client before the Administrative Tribunal of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he obtained judgment for his client in 2017 against the African Union. 

Lawyer Larbi was the SRC President of the Ghana School of Law from 2001 to 2002 and engineered the Ghana School of Law’s participation for the first time in the history of the Ghana School of Law in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in the year 2002. He later participated in the same competition as an International Judge in the years 2003 and 2004. 

This Moot Court Competition has come to stay and has continued every year since 2002 with many law students and lawyers in Ghana today who have participated and benefitted from the Moot Court Competition. 

The Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the legacy of Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi at the Ghana School of Law since 2002.

Mr. Larbi has an authority standing to his credit in the case of “Dennis Torgbenu and 2 Ors Vs. Torgbe Nakakpo Dugbaza VIII (2019) 137 GMJ 202 SC” which is a Supreme Court decision regarding the reckoning of time for the 21 days allowed for interlocutory appeals.

Mr. Isaac M. Larbi has many write ups and publications many of which are available online and has an article titled “International Treaty Obligations v International War Crimes; Analyzing United States Article 98 Agreements of the International Criminal Court in the Context of International Legal Principles”  published in the Law Student Journal tilted “Eyes On The ICC Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1, 177 (2004).”

Aside being a Lawyer Mr. Larbi is a farmer, entrepreneur, writer and also a Trained and Certified Manager with experience in management having worked as Store Manager in the USA where he was in charge of a high volume store with annual/yearly sales of over US$29 million.