Sir James Henley Coussey QC (1891 – 6 June 1958) was a jurist in Gold Coast (British colony).
[4] Known as the Coussey Report, the work of the Committee informed the 1951 Constitution, paving the way for the Gold Coast's ultimate independence in 1957.
He was the son of Charles Louis Romaine Pierre Coussey (1857–1940),[5] a lawyer and merchant of the United Africa Company (UAC), and Ambah Orbah.
He was called to the bar at Middle Temple on 16 April 1913,[9] on the same evening as Sir Stafford Cripps.
Coussey died on Friday, 6 June 1958, in Accra, Dominion of Ghana, aged 67 years.