Koi Larbi
{{short description|Supreme Court Judge}}
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Koi Obuadabang Larbi was an activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 1970 to 1972.{{cite journal |title=The Supreme Court of Ghana Law Reports, Volume 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yP1QAQAAMAAJ&q=k+o+larbi |page=vii |date=1972 |publisher=Council for Law Reporting |journal=The Supreme Court of Ghana Law Reports}}
Biography
Koi Larbi was born in 1914 in the Gold Coast.{{cite book |last1=Adi |first1=Hakim
|title=The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited |date=1995 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7mfAAAAMAAJ&q=koi+larbi |publisher=New Beacon Books|isbn=9781873201121
}} He obtained his law degree in 1943 from Durham University{{cite journal |title=The Durham University Journal, Volume 30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlojAQAAIAAJ&q=k+o+larbi |page=413 |date=1972 |publisher=University of Durham |journal=The Durham University Journal}} working at the West Indian seamen hostel as the warden. While in school, he was a member of the West African Students Union (WASU). He qualified as a barrister at the Middle Temple{{cite book |last=Amissah |first=A. N. E |date=1981 |title=Legends of the Lawless Lord |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trkvAAAAIAAJ&q=koi+larbi |publisher=Ilen Publications |page=2}} in January 1944{{cite journal |title=The law List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFAVAQAAMAAJ&q=koi+larbi |publisher=Stevens and Norton |page=223 |date=1948}} and begun private practice in London.{{cite book |last=Killingray |first=David
|title=Blacks in Britain |date=6 December 2012 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inu7UxDROZoC&q=k+o+larbi&pg=PA167 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136300066
}} He became a legal advisor to the Gold Coast Farmers'
delegation in the United Kingdom in 1945,{{cite book |last1=Adi |first1=Hakim
|title=The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited |date=1995 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7mfAAAAMAAJ&q=Larbis+chambers |publisher=New Beacon Books|isbn=9781873201121
}} and the following year, he became a legal advisor to the West African National Secretariat (WANS). He was also a member African Progress Association and the chairman of the Committee for the Defence of People of African Descent, a committee that was formed to provide legal support to Black people.{{cite book |last1=Adi |first1=Hakim
|title=West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism |date=1998 |page=146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWp0AAAAMAAJ&q=k+o+larbi |publisher=Lawrence & Wishart|isbn=9780853158486
}}
Koi Larbi returned to the Gold Coast to resume private legal practice. He was called to the Gold Coast bar in 1946.{{cite book |author=Ghana |date=1976 |title=The Supreme Court of Ghana centenary : souvenir, 1876-1976 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQFQAQAAMAAJ&q=Koi+obuadabang+Larbi |publisher=University Press |page=74}} In 1969 he was appointed member of the Council of State{{cite book |last=Danquah |first=Moses |date=1969 |title=The Birth of the Second Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qy00AAAAIAAJ&q=Koi+obuadabang+Larbi |page=33}} and a year later, he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana on 5 August.{{cite book |last=Amissah |first=A. N. E |date=1981 |title=The contribution of the courts to government: a West African view |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DeOAAAAMAAJ&q=Koi+obuadabang+Larbi |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=308|isbn=9780198253563 }}{{cite journal |title=Ghana News, Issue 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ew_AQAAIAAJ&q=koi+larbi+supreme+court+judge&pg=PP40 |publisher=Embassy of Ghana |date=1969 |page=4 |journal=Ghana News}} He was dismissed in 1972 when the Supreme Court was abolished by the National Redemption Council.
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