A Retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, will be buried today October 4, in Accra.
A statement from the Crabbe and Allied families said there will be a funeral service at the Accra International Conference Centre, (AICC) for the late Justice.
Filing past will start at 6 in the morning followed by the pre-burial service at 9 am.
The final funeral rites and reception will be held at the same venue.
He was a Ghanaian jurist who was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and a Professor of Law at the University of West Indies.
In August 1952, he was admitted to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple to read law.
He completed the normal three-year course in two years and was called to the Bar on February 8, 1955, having being granted a dispensation.
The same year he was enrolled as a member of the Gold Coast Bar,in order to maintain his Seniority at the Bar.
He progressed from Assistant Crown Counsel to Parliamentary Counsel, the first African to be appointed as such and ended up as a Senior Instructor at the International Law Development Centre in Rome, Italy.
In between, he has held the post of First Parliamentary Counsel and Constitutional Advisor to the Uganda Government, Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat Scheme for Legislative draftsmen for the West African Region, Southern Africa Region, the Caribbean Region and a Professor of Legislative drafting at the Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, University of West Indies.
V.C.R.A.C Crabbe was Special Commissioner to the 1968 Constitutional Commission; Legislative Draftsmen to the 1969 Constituent Assembly which drafted the 1969 Constitution of Ghana. He was the Chairman of the 1979 Constituent Assembly and drafted the 1979 Constitution of Ghana.
He worked with the Constitutional Review Commission of Kenya and was Leader of the group of Draftspersons who drafted the Kenya Constitution. He did work the Zambian Constitutional Commission for the drafting of the Zambian Constitution as well with the Fiajoe Review Commission for the review of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
Crabbe worked with Justice P.N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Justice Kayode Eso of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to advise on the setting up of the Constitutional Court in South Africa.
Crabbe was for many years sole Statute Law Revision Commissioner of Ghana and in this office revised the Laws of Ghana from 1852 to 2004 in seven volumes.
Crabbe was a Professor of Law at Mountcrest University College in Accra until his death on 7 September 2018 after a short illness.
