Mission Statement
The Attorney General, exists to entrench at the core of the body politic and abiding respect for the Rule of Law and a constant observance of human Rights, to ensure equality of access to Justice and treatment before the Law for all citizens, to promote by law social justice to facilitate the operations of a fair, efficient and transparent legal system and to propagate a culture of due process and legality for these purposes. The Ministry acts as the defender of the constitutional order, the guarantor of the rights and liberties of the citizens, the protector of the state legal interest, the enforcer of the criminal laws, the developer of the human resources of the legal sector and the championing of the rule of law.

Objectives

• To formulate Policies, Monitor and Evaluate for the fair and efficient operation of the legal systems.
• To revise, reform and replace laws for the realisation of the policy objectives of Government with regards to National and Social growth.
• Broaden the scope of legal aid services.
• To develop and provide the requisite legal and paralegal manpower.
• To accelerate the disposal of criminal prosecution.
• To improve crime prevention and public accountability in the utilisation and management of the nation's financial and resources.
• To heighten public awareness of the nation's law and statues and publish the official law reports.

Achievements

The Ministry has reviewed and rectified defects in a number of previous government agreement that have been founded to be defective. Among these agreements are the Ghana Government on one side and various institutions on the other side at various times. These institutions include Ghana Telecom, Gateway Services Ltd, GCNET and the agreement between the GFA and the Chiefs of Prampram.

It has settled and finalised payment of compensation, to be paid for injuries arising from duty, severance, retrenchment awards, ex-gratia awards and judgment debt for 31 persons.

The Ministry has dealt with a lot of constitutional codes, prominent among them are the Attorney General verses the NDC on three different occasions which all was ruled in favour of the government, as well as the Attorney General verses Tsatsu Tsikata on the constitutionality of the Fast Track court which the ruling went in fovour of the Attorney General establishing the constitutionality of the Fast Track Court system in Ghana.