How can I be obsessed with a lawyer I taught elementary civil procedure in open court? – Sory quizzes Dame

Thaddeus Sory, a private legal practitioner has replied to Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice claims he is obsessed with him.

According to Godfred Dame, Thaddeus Sory has been launching public attacks on him about his work.

He asserted that Thaddeus Sory’s obsession with him is bewildering and needs healing.

In a strong response, Dame addressed Sory’s allegations, rejecting them as part of a pattern of vile propaganda and falsehoods propagated by NDC-affiliated lawyers.

Dame in his response stated, “If you do not find it ‘incongruous’ that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you”.

“I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you,” he added.

However, Thaddeus Sory in his latest response quizzed how he could be obsessed with a lawyer I taught elementary civil procedure in open court.

Sory in his reply stated, “ I honestly don’t believe Cry Baby wrote the response. For if he did, it’s quite incongruous how he admits I have NPP-affiliated clients, yet in an interview with Joy FM, insists that because I represent a client who has presented a petition against the Chief Justice, the petition is NDC driven? This is incongruous logic.

If he indeed wrote that piece, then it’s even more absurd that he forgot how, in October last year, he screamed in court that I couldn’t represent the Speaker of Parliament, then later screamed louder that I should be sanctioned for not showing up, after I heeded his own objection”.

According to Sory, every time he has written about Dame, it has been in reaction to his refusal to leave his name out of his media outbursts.

“My name grips him like an epileptic seizure. So again, who’s obsessed with whom? To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

And I’m obsessed with you? How can I be obsessed with a lawyer I taught elementary civil procedure in open court just last October?, he quizzed.

Meanwhile, the back-and-forth between the two lawyers figures features deeper tensions within Ghana’s legal and political realms.

See his full post below:

AND STILL CRYING, EVEN MORE INCONGRUOUSLY-PART ONE.

By Thaddeus Sory

1. Friends and family, thank you sincerely for the advice. I truly appreciate it. If I’m doing this, it’s for two reasons:
2. There are signs that the Cry Baby is learning, so there’s hope he might eventually turn around.
3. We do not suffer spoilt children.
4. In a response to my last post, he screamed that:
5. I’m obsessed with him.
6. My criticism of him is unethical.

iii. As Attorney-General, the judiciary has shown better steel and independence, never mind the many polls that say otherwise.

1. I’ve distorted facts in my criticism.
2. I lost a case against him, the title of which he neither mentions nor clarifies.
3. He never claimed that he’s never lost a case.
4. I honestly don’t believe Cry Baby wrote the response. For if he did, it’s quite incongruous how he admits I have NPP-affiliated clients, yet in an interview with Joy FM, insists that because I represent a client who has presented a petition against the Chief Justice, the petition is NDC driven? This is incongruous logic.
5. If he indeed wrote that piece, then it’s even more absurd that he forgot how, in October last year, he screamed in court that I couldn’t represent the Speaker of Parliament, then later screamed louder that I should be sanctioned for not showing up, after I heeded his own objection.
6. It is despicably incongruous that he forgets how, on each of these occasions, he went hoarse in the media, ranting about it. That’s when I decided to feed his obsession with me by giving him something to chew on. And clearly, it worked.
7. That’s why, in his last Joy FM interview, he couldn’t end without mentioning my name. That’s how Cry Baby earned my last response.
8. Every time I’ve written about him, it has been in reaction to his refusal to leave my name out of his media outbursts. My name grips him like an epileptic seizure. So again, who’s obsessed with whom? To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
9. And I’m obsessed with you? How can I be obsessed with a lawyer I taught elementary civil procedure in open court just last October?
10. Even after that a public lesson, you goofed again on the most basic principle on injunction law, and practice, prompting a judicial correction from Amadu JSC. See paragraphs 31 and 32 of his judgment in the Assafuah case.
11. And really? I’m obsessed with a lawyer whose charge against Jakpa in a case he described as “controversially decided” was exposed as flawed? Who raised the legal point the Court of Appeal upheld against you? That was me. Do not let put out the charge sheets
12. You claim the decision would have been overturned by the Supreme Court if not for the Attorney-General’s withdrawal of the appeal…. That certainty is revealing. Let me just add: the notice of appeal was incompetent. If you want to know why, I’ll be happy to explain.
13. Like the word “incongruous,” Cry Baby must have a severely warped understanding of the word “obsessed.” Imagine reaching all the way back to 2009 to dig up a case whose title you can’t even name, just to prove you beat me in court. Meanwhile, the Jakpa case was just last year. Who was Jakpa’s lawyer? You are right, that was me…
14. And to think that Cry Baby’s vocabulary warehouse stocks just one word… you know it. How could I possibly be obsessed with him, let alone jealous?
15. Did Cry Baby really say my criticism violates professional ethics? Another reason to doubt he penned that response himself.
16. What could be more unethical than a lawyer who takes to radio and social media ALL THE TIME, to prosecute his cases in public? There’s a specific rule that forbids it. See Rule 38 of our professional conduct guidelines. Yet somehow, you’ve never been sanctioned by the General Legal Council [GLC].
17. What rule says you can’t knock some sense into a Cry Baby’s head? Still waiting to be disciplined. Is it ethical for a lawyer to lose a case in the Court of Appeal and without even reading the judgment take to the radio to criticise and literally vilify the Judges? Not sure which rule covers that? Ask me, I’ll tell you.
18. Reading from the Cry Baby, you can’t help but sense his delusion. He needs a serious resetting. The entire response is an exercise in self- adulation. Reality is coming and the next parts will help him find it.
19. Once again, friends and family, sorry I had to do this. Please forgive me. It is just me being silly, but not in a hard way.