The Association is proud not only of its history as the defender of the rights and liberties of the people, but also of the quality of the professional services its members have rendered here and abroad. The alacrity with which foreign nations engage the services of Ghanaian jurists is vivid evidence of this quality.

Any association worth its salt, however, is ultimately judged by its contribution to social progress and advancement. And here no more eloquent testimony is available than that provided by the incumbent Chief Justice at the time of the celebration of the centenary in 1976 of the establishment of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Azu Crabbe when he said: "If our legal history has been eventful in this past century, we can also say that we have been lucky in the people of our nation who have been alive, in every generation, to match the grandeur of the events of their time. We have, in these years past, never needed a hero in the law to speak up for our people - a Casely-Hayford to warn the Imperial Power to keep our lands inviolate; a Mensah Sarbah to plead the people's cause in the highest councils of Empire; a Coussey to guide in the writing of our first constitution towards independence; in our own lifetime, a Danquah to keep us reminded of the need for legal self-discipline in the tumultuous years immediately after independence, and a Korsah to hold, first among our people, the scales of justice evenly between the Government, the Legislature and the people."