Martin Kpebu

Martin is a lawyer and a partner in GT Legal Africa, a law firm. He specialises in corporate law and litigation (civil and criminal). He is a human rights activist and has succeeded in arguing four different cases, for the Supreme Court of Ghana to strike down two laws that infringed the human rights of accused persons and sureties and interpret two other laws for fair trials in ground breaking decisions.

These are the decisions that, all criminal offences are now bailable, sureties (persons who sign a contract to guarantee the appearance of accused and suspects in court) can no longer be jailed when an accused/suspect absconds, the state must give accused persons the evidence it intends to rely on at the trial (introduction of disclosure), before a trial starts and finally, a few courts must sit during weekends and public holidays to hear bail applications by suspects/accused where the police do not wish to grant bail, within 48 hours of the arrest.

For ten years of Martin's legal practice, he lectured at Central University (2014-2018), and Accra Technical University (2008-2014).

He engages in some mass media advocacy on legal issues and social justice by contributing to a number of programmes on television and radio.