Pwamang brings experience to job
Mr Gabriel Scott Pwamang, a private legal practitioner, is one of two eminent lawyers recently nominated by the President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, to the Supreme Court.
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The President, who also nominated Mr Justice Yaw Apau, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, to the Supreme Court, made the nominations on the advice of the Judicial Council and in consultation with the Council of State.
The two, before they assume office, would have to be approved by Parliament.
Experience
Mr Pwamang brings to the job a wide array of experience. He is a legal practitioner and civil society activist and has over the years distinguished himself as a fine legal brain whose knowledge and skills have served the wider society beyond his clients.
For 26 years, he has defended cases in the courts and other adjudicating bodies in Ghana up to the Supreme Court, thereby acquiring massive experience in the workings of the Judiciary in Ghana and gaining a mastery of court rules and procedures. His legal practice has focused largely on Land and Natural Resources Law, Human Rights and Criminal Justice.
His legal experience has been of tremendous value to business corporations that have appointed him unto their boards. He is the board chairman of the Centre for Public Interest Law [CEPIL], a civil society organisation which takes up public interest legal issues and litigates on behalf of communities and associations. CEPIL has defended communities affected by mining and those facing forced evictions.
He was the deputy general secretary, and later general secretary, of the People’s National Convention [PNC] from 1998 to 2007. In that capacity, he was in the forefront of the civil society engagements with the Electoral Commission of Ghana, the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) and others at the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) to iron out critical democratic governance issues that confronted the nation in the early years of the Fourth Republic.
Mr Pwamang now runs his own law firm, Pwamang & Associates, where he is the Managing Partner. He is a legal consultant for a number of corporations and organisations.
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From January 2010 to December 2011, Lawyer Pwamang served as a Commissioner on the Constitution Review Commission of Ghana that held nationwide consultations on the 1992 Constitution and submitted a comprehensive report with recommendations for amendments to the Constitution.
On the Constitution Review Commission, he was part of the drafting committee that drafted the proposed amendment bills.
Gabriel Pwamang has undertaken research and consulted for various organisations on issues of constitutional governance and reform in Ghana.
In 2012, he contested the Navrongo Central parliamentary seat on the ticket of the party but garnered only 7.9 per cent of votes.
The seat was won by Mr Mark Woyongo, the current Minister of the Interior.