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Every court going lawyer has three sets of clients – COMMAND CLIENTS- those who pay well, whose fees sustain you in the practice, then REGULAR CLIENTS – those who give petty chop money regularly off and on and finally NUISANCE CLIENTS – those clients who do not pay, but because of affinity, blood, and friendship, you cannot push them away.
I was in my law offices at Asylum Down when a very young thirty something year old chief walked in – “Captain, I want to go to Court in Akim Oda – bench warrant.”
“Bench Warrant” is an order of the Court that the Police should arrest you and bring you to Court to answer a criminal charge. It is so powerful a weapon that even the President of Ghana cannot set aside the bench warrant.