Philip Edward Archer MSG JSC (22 February 1925 – 10 May 2002) was the Chief Justice of Ghana between 1991 and 1995.
Philip Edward Archer was born 22 February 1925, Abontiakrom, Tarkwa.
He was educated at St Peter's School in Sekondi, Adisadel College, Cape Coast and the University of Nottingham in England.
Admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales in 1957, he returned to Ghana and joined the office of the Registrar-General.
Retiring as a judge in 1983, he was appointed full-time chairman of the Law Reform Commission.