Dr. Godwin Djokoto
Dr. Godwin Djokoto is the Managing Partner of Legal Anchor. He was called to the Bar in Ghana about 22 years ago. Godwin practises and supervises the conduct of civil litigation representing many individuals and corporate organisations including Zenith Bank, Ecobank Ghana Limited, Bank of Africa, Republic Bank Ghana Limited, NCR Ghana Limited, China Europe International Business School, Africa Campus. He has expertise in banking law, maritime law, land law, labour law, construction law, intellectual property, and ocean law and policy. At the international level, Godwin was a member of Ghana’s Legal and Technical Team in the Ghana–Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Boundary Dispute before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea(ITLOS) in Hamburg. Previously, he worked at the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court(ICC) in The Hague as an intern. In this capacity, he was tasked with, among others, the responsibility of writing a commentary on the Rome Statute of the ICC particularly on the admissibility and presentation of evidence before the ICC and other international criminal tribunals under the Legal Tools Project. Godwin is a former Head of the Legal Department of the erstwhile Intercontinental Bank Limited, having risen through the ranks as a Legal Officer.
Godwin also has extensive experience in legal consultancy. As a consultant, with a wide scope of interest, he has consulted in the fields of banking; international fisheries regulation and management; land law; regulation of the construction industry and many others. He has served as resource person for several organizations including the Commercial Court, the Ghana Shippers Authority, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Ascertainment of Customary Law Project on varied subjects. He was also a Member of the International Panel of Experts appointed by the FAO (of the United Nations) and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in the United Kingdom to review the Technical Guidelines for lawyers in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure (VGGT) relating to land, forestry and fisheries. He was also the Ocean Governance Expert on a three-member team of consultants who were commissioned by the Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea(DOALOS) in the office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations to author the Ocean Governance Study on ocean governance in Ghana. He has also consulted for the TetraTech ARD Inc/USAID on the Marine Protected Areas in Ghana.
Godwin also teaches at the University of Ghana School of Law, University of Ghana, Legon where he teaches, among others, Banking Law, Law of Contract, Equity and Succession, Immovable Property Law and International Law of the Sea and the International Management of Maritime Conflicts. He is the author of the book –The Law of Mortgages in Ghana and Editor of the Commercial Law Reports of Ghana. Godwin is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the World Jurist Association. Godwin is a proud recipient of the highest national honour, the Order of the Volta, Companion for his role in the Ghana -Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Boundary dispute.
He is currently Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at the Australia National Centre of Ocean Resources and Security(ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. He graduated from the University of Ghana with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree in 2001.