A MP worries about the backlog of students seeking admission to the law school

General News of Thursday, July 18, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-18

Ben Abdallah, chairman of Parliament's Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, said the backlog of qualified people struggling to enter Ghana's law school posed a potential threat to security.

Speaking at a CSD roundtable in Ghana on the bill amending the 2018 legal profession, Ben Abdallah said his committee was powerless about this but had called to a concerted effort to reform the Ghana School of Law.

How do we deal with the backlog of students who aspire to enroll in law school? It's a recipe for disaster. It's an almost national security issue but our hands are tied. "

The legislator reminded that a "global revision of the course structure" was necessary.

"Now everything is digitized. We are in the era of information technology. More crimes are committed online than offline. Have we considered introducing perhaps the right of the internet into our course structure?

Professor Ebow Bondzi-Simpson, Rector of the Faculty of Law of the Institute of Management and Public Administration of Ghana (GIMPA), recently expressed similar concerns and badociated with the appeals in favor of a reform of professional legal training.

While lamenting the conditions of entry to the Ghana Law School during his address to the GIMPA 2019 Law School, he stated that it was neither satisfactory nor sustainable.

"The number of people needed to serve our legal sector far exceeds the capacity of the Ghana Law School with its satellite campuses. If the Ghana Law School is not currently able to handle the numbers, the Ghana Legal Council can badociate with some law schools and accredit them to enable them to provide training professional legal system. "

Calls have been made for a redesign of the legal education system to address these issues.

The treatment of exams at school was also a matter of contention.

The agitation of the council of school student representatives prompted the general legal council to set up a committee to verify the failure of mbad examinations at Ghana's law school and oversee the reforms.

The committee has called for public participation in the fulfillment of its mandate.