Austin Neeabeohe Evans Amissah (3 October 1930 – 20 January 2001) was aGhanaian lawyer, judge and academic.

Amissah was born inAccra,Ghana on 3 October 1930. He studied atJesus College, Oxford and wascalled to the bar as a member ofLincoln's Inn in 1955. He wasDirector of Public Prosecutions for Ghana from 1962 to 1966, then became a judge of the Court of Appeal from 1966 to 1976; he was seconded from this position to become a professor and Dean of the Law Faculty at theUniversity of Ghana from 1969 to 1974 and chairman of the Ghana Law Reform Commission from 1969 to 1975. He was appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice in 1979, and later became a judge of the Court of Appeal inBotswana from 1981 to 2001, including a period as President of the Court of Appeal. His writings includedCriminal Procedure in Ghana (1982, winner of theNoma Award),The Contribution of Courts to Government: a West African view (1981) andArbitration in Africa (1996). He died in London, where he had lived since 1982, on 20 January 2001.^[1]

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