Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Godfred Dame says the government has worked to avert payments of crippling judgment debts to the tune of GH¢15 trillion since he took office in 2017.

Attorney-General Dame noted that the litigations were both in the local and international spaces where the state has increasingly become exposed to suits in a rapidly changing world.

The Minister of Justice who was speaking at the annual Bar Association Conference in Kumasi on Monday disclosed that the country had been saved “over GH¢15 trillion since I assumed office.”

He continued: “The era of dubious and scandalous judgment debts against the state, I can say without any fear of equivocation, is clearly a thing of the past. There has not been a time that the state has been more exposed in international litigation than the era in which we live.”

Dame revealed that state lawyers have had to travel the world over to defend the country against arbitration claims.

“The state has had to litigate in the domestic courts of Norway, from the Oslo District Court all the way to that country’s Supreme Court. It has had to defend numerous arbitration claims in the prominent Court of Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, ad-hoc arbitration tribunal,” he said.

He said that the outcomes in the litigations have been “favourable, with little or no cost to the state.”