The focus is on the efficiency of the courts and not on the number of lawyers – Attorney at CJ

General News of Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-24

Professor Kwaku Asare, a lawyer and advocate of legal education reform, wants Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to focus on the efficiency of the courts in Ghana and allow universities to provide training in law enforcement. right to students.

According to him, universities are the best choice for training lawyers and providing legal education.

Speaking Tuesday in Eyewitness News, he said that if the bar examination was sufficiently diagnostic, it would ensure that only quality students would be admitted to law schools.

"I will propose to the Chief Justice to strengthen the efficiency of the court and allow universities to use their comparative advantage to train lawyers and train lawyers. We will be able to agree on a form of bar examination that will be applied to all laws. graduates and those who pbad. If the bar examination is sufficiently diagnostic, it will call on high quality lawyers, "he said.

Speaking at the conference of lawyers, bars and professors who held Tuesday at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Judge Sophia Akuffo said that mbad production of lawyers without effective control has not occurred. He does not come under his supervision.

Judge Sophia Akuffo further stated that "those of you who advocate for rights, mbad admissions, courses in professional law and mbad production of lawyers, pay very close attention to what you want. "

She stressed that "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. "

According to her, mbad production of lawyers poses a serious threat to the people of the country who would need the services of a good lawyer in his lifetime.

Kwaku Asare is one of the leading advocates of legal education reform in Ghana.