Samuel Marful-Sau

Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau (3 February 1957 – 10 August 2021) was a Ghanaian judge. He was an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Marful-Sau was born in Assin Adubiase in the Central Region. After qualifying as a Barrister-at-law in 1984 he worked at the office of the Provisional National Defence Council and entered private legal practice prior to being called to the High Court bench in June 2002. He subsequently became an Appeal Court judge in 2006 and in 2018 he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

He was nominated in 2018 by the president Nana Akufo-Addo in consultation with Council of State and the advice of the Judicial Council.

Early life and education Marful-Sau was born on 3 February 1956 at Assin Edubiase in the Assin South District of the Central Region.

He began his formal education at Methodist Primary School in Assin Edubiase from 1963 to 1965. He continued his elementary education at Sempe '1' Primary and Middle School in Accra from 1965 to 1969, he later enrolled at the Urban Council Middle 'A' School at Mankessim where he studied from 1969 to 1972. His secondary school education began at Assin Manso Secondary School, Assin Manso, he later moved to Feden High School where he studied from September 1973 to June 1974. He later enrolled at Breman Asikuma Secondary School in September 1974. There, he received his Ordinary Level ('O'-Level) certificate in June 1977. He proceeded to Navrongo Secondary School in September 1977 and obtained his Advanced Level ('A'-Level) certificate there in June 1979. In September 2008 he entered the University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland to pursue a Master's degree (LL.M.) in Petroleum Law and Policy. He graduated in October 2009. During the period of his national service, he was selected to study a six-month course in Intelligence Studies at the Security and Intelligence Academy in Moscow, Russia. While in private legal practice, Marful-Sau was a member of the Law Reform Commission from August 1998 to October 2005 and a member of the Ghana Frequency Regulation Control Board from 1993 to 1998. serving in that capacity from November 2006 to 2018 when he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

He was part of a seven-member panel that will be hearing the 2020 election petition by John Mahama against The Electoral Commission of Ghana and Nana Akufo-Addo.

Publication A Practical Guide to Civil Procedure in Ghana (2017)

Death Samuel Marful-Sau died on 10 August 2021 at the Ga East Hospital after a short illness. He was 64 years old.