Law school exam: only 64 people qualify for the bar on 450 students

General News of Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-19

Of the four hundred and fifty (450) students who pbaded the Ghana Law School examinations, only sixty-four (64), or 14 percent, were admitted to the bar.

This was revealed by Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, an activist for the liberalization of the law school, known as Kwaku Azar.

According to him, students who failed the law exam could easily have pbaded in any jurisdiction, warning that the situation had reached the level of crisis.

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that admission examinations and subsequent interviews were illegal and that the General Legal Council should ask Parliament for a legal framework for their admission requirements.

View Kwaku Azar's full post:

Only about 450 out of 2,000 LLB graduates are considered ready for vocational training.

Of these 450, only 64 are successful, 177 are referred and 284 fail.

In other words, only 64 out of 2,000 LLBs are able to pbad the professional exam, not even practice, but to embark on an additional six months of guardianship.

After more than 10 years of study, millions of investment cedis, thousands of hours of schooling, etc., only 3.2% become eligible for tutorship? This is an indictment of the GLC and legal education officials in the country.

Here's What I Know If you export the 2,000 students to a jurisdiction other than Ghana, more than 70% of them will become qualified lawyers sooner. So the problem, at least basically, can not belong to the students.

If our leaders do not see this as a problem, I do not know what they see.

Da Yie!

cc:
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
VP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Kwesi Yankah
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh