[1] Paul became a member of the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, a handicap in his legal career since Scots law is unique to Scotland.
In January 1930 Paul was a member of the Aba Commission of Inquiry, where a panel of British judges held hearings and reported on the incident.
Paul said, “No one listening to the evidence given before us could have failed to be impressed by the intelligence, the power of exposition, the directness and the mother-wit which some of the leaders exhibited in setting forth their grievances.
[5] In December 1939 it was announced that the king had approved the appointment of Mr. George Graham Paul, puisne judge of Nigeria, to succeed Mr. A. H. Webb as Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
[6] On 16 July 1943 the king bestowed knighthood on George Graham Paul, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
The outspoken Justice Reginald Montagu Cluer was transferred to Jamaica, and the governor asked for an outsider to replace Webb.