{
  "id": 668891,
  "title": "Legal vacation: Ayikoi Otoo says compelling lawyers to appear in court is unfair",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/legal-vacation-ayikoi-otoo-says-compelling-lawyers-to-appear-in-court",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:35:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/legal-vacation-ayikoi-otoo-says-compelling-lawyers-to-appear-in-court-is-unfair/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former Attorney General and former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ayikoi Otoo, has criticised the decision to compel lawyers to appear in court during the legal vacation, describing the practice as unfair and something that should only happen in exceptional circumstances.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}