A book titled Concise Law of Banking has been launched in Accra .The book was commissioned by the Institute for Law and Development and authored by Rev. Mrs. Nana Kegya Appiah-Adu, a lawyer and minister of the gospel.
Topics in the book include, Introduction to banking law, bank regulation, banker-customer relationship, recovery of money paid mistakenly, electronic banking, bank payment cards, offshore banking, credit reporting and money laundering among others.
Dr. Ernest Addison Governor of Bank of Ghana emphasized the importance of such a book on banking law as part of the economic literature of Ghana.
He recommended it to policy makers who have an enquiring mind on banking law and the supervisory framework of banking in Ghana. In addition,
Dr. Addison congratulated the author and stated that the book was a landmark achievement to cap her illustrious career that started at the Bank of Ghana.
Mrs Efua Ghartey President-Elect of Ghana Bar Association stated that the book launch was the outdooring of the first comprehensive book on banking law in Ghana, authored by an experienced female lawyer. In addition, she described it as a practical guide to banking law and stated that it is “a user-friendly, authoritative, timely, concise, well-researched and instructive literary work on banking law.”
The author serves as the Vice President of the Women’s Forum of the Ghana Bar Association, Senior Consultant with ALC Lawconsult, Executive Director of the Institute for Law & Development and President of Hope Agape Ministry.
After qualifying as a lawyer, she worked at the Bank of Ghana for several years where as part of her duties, she taught banking law at the Bank of Ghana Training School. In 2003, the author joined the staff of the Ghana School of Law, where she initially taught Contract Law and was asked to design a banking law course as a commercial law elective program for professional law students.
While teaching banking law at the Bank of Ghana Training School and while designing the banking law program for the Ghana School of Law, she was faced with the challenge of the unavailability of suitable textbooks with cases and materials on Ghana’s banking law. Therefore, she did extensive research and incorporated into her notes cases and materials on Ghana’s banking law.
She started teaching banking law in 2004 and received several requests for a copy of her notes from her students and colleague lawyers. Therefore, she decided to update her notes and compile them into the book titled Concise Law of Banking.
According to the author, the book is suitable for bank customers, banking professionals, other professionals who deal with banking and financial law in their work, judges, lawyers, students, lecturers and researchers.
