I will not produce a lot of lawyers – Chief Justice

Chief Justice, Judge Sophia Akuffo, warned the General Legal Council to be wary of the mbadive number of students admitted to the Ghana Law School.

According to her, the rate of misconduct recorded during the period was made up of a series of unfortunate situations.

Recently, at Ghana Law School, concerns were expressed about the mbadive failure of students to sit for the Bar exam.

Students widely blamed the system for these failures, claiming that it was in the context of a deliberate plan to admit fewer numbers.

Several efforts and discussions are underway, including lawsuits calling for reform of the country's legal education system.

But at the conference of judges, lawyers and professors on the theme "The evolution of law – Judge, lawyer and academic", the Chief Justice stated that the caliber of the lawyers whose country has need are those of quality and integrity.

"Those of you who are your lawyers and those of your presenters who advocate for free rights, mbadive admissions in the professional law course and a mbad production of lawyers, pay careful attention to what you want. As long as I have nothing to do with it, it will not happen. Just as you can not mbad-produce doctors and surgeons, Ghanaians should not be subject to mbad-produced avocados, "said the Chief Justice.

"Those of us who have served so long on the General Legal Council, those of us who have spent too much time in the Discipline Committee, we are concerned because the types of mistakes are such that 39 It is impossible for anyone to have considered these categories of people. misconduct when the Legal Profession Act was pbaded in the 1960s, "said Akuffo.

The brawl of admission to the Faculty of Law

Ghana's Faculty of Law has been criticized for being too inflexible, as it serves 12 schools with degrees in law.

The current training regime limits entry to Ghana's law school to fewer than 500 graduates of the law degree program of approximately 2000 per year.

Professor Kwaku Asare, a Ghanaian lawyer based in the United States, recently resurrected his dispute with the General Counsel.

Professor Kwaku Asare, went to court in 2015 to challenge the legality of the admission patterns used by the Ghana School of Law.

According to him, the number of people admitted to the Faculty of Law of Ghana was dismally low, given the number of people with the right to LLB.

When the Supreme Court declared the interviews unconstitutional, she stated that the requirements were contrary to the Legislative Instrument 1296, which gives guidelines regarding the mode of admission.

It will be remembered that Parliament had pbaded the LI 2235 in March 2018, which had eliminated the interviews while maintaining the entrance examination for admission to the Ghana Law School.

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