A discourse is worthy of engagement where there is a clearly articulated legal position to interrogate. The debate concerning legal vacation in Ghana has, with respect, exposed an unfortunate tendency in legal discourse: the conflation of established practice, professional convention, and administrative tradition with binding law. If the rules themselves expressly preserve the Chief Justice’s power to appoint vacation days for hearings, it is difficult to derive from Rule 4 an absolute legal prohibition against court sittings during vacation. Legal vacation exists as part of the administration of the superior courts, and lawyers may arrange their personal leave around it. Legal vacation may be a valuable convention.