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General News on Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-06-11
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo
The principal responsible for the reform of the legal education system in Ghana has unveiled a proposal to replace the country's "archaic", "old-fashioned" and "vain" methods of training lawyers.
Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare has proposed the complete abolition of the General Legal Council, a body that oversees legal training and is hidden by Supreme Court judges and presided over by the President of the Chief Justice, Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo .
Asare, who has been fighting legal education regulators since 2015, explained that the system is controlled by rooted regulators who resist change.
According to Professor Asare, regulators and stakeholders have "unfortunately failed in the deployment of technology to promote the effective provision of so-called professional solutions." [legal] education."
To be admitted to the Bar, an LLB student must be admitted to the Ghana School of Law for two years and pbad a final exam.
If a student fails three of the ten courses, the entire course must be repeated. Grade C is considered a failure. A student is required to pay 3,000 cedis to get noticed.
Failure rates at the Ghana Law School have been staggering. In May 2019, of the 525 students who pbaded the exam, only 64 were successful. At the exams of 2017, the failure rate was 81%.
Professor Asare predicted that the failure rates of 2019 would remain faithful to the previous scenario of large-scale deception.
"It's like the floods of Accra," he likened to the constant flooding of the capital every rainy season.
In Ghana, there is no other professional body that requires students to go through what they see as an arduous process that seems to leave more people in place and let some of them in.
Some regulators have pointed out the weakness of the attention and efforts of the students. But Professor Azar noted that arrogant regulators are at the heart of the problem.
Challenging these regulators, an occupation of Professor Asare, was "uncomfortable," he said Tuesday at Joy's FM Super FM Show.
He would pursue General Legal Counsel only to find that his members or allies were sitting before him.
Continuing his tireless campaign for the liberalization of legal education, including in the Supreme Court, he proposed the creation of a 15-member body to conduct bar exams for all a bachelor's degree.
It would not be necessary to go through the Ghana Law School, which systematically refuses admission for reasons of limited space.
He said that just like accountants, doctors, nurses and other professionals, once you have obtained the required academic certificate, you must pbad a professional examination and be called to the bar after your success.
The 15-member body should not have a judge or chief justice as a member, the reformist said.
The body, he said, must have "learned" members who have demonstrated their "affirmation" in the promotion of legal education.
An independent review committee supported by the GLC organizes the bar exams for students, but Professor Asare said the committee was a "huge" contributor to the law school crisis.
The committee was involved in a leakage scandal review in 2018, he said.
He also engages in an "unusual examination practice" by asking students to choose four of the five questions, only to add that four of the questions are mandatory.
He also lamented a procedure of "erroneous character reference" that requires students to get endorsed from experienced lawyers.
According to Professor Asare, some 80 students who challenged their grades and asked to comment at a cost of 3,000 cedis per course were successful, showing that the grading system is problematic.
The lawyer noted that "the cost of legal training, attrition rate of students, length of training, dissatisfaction of stakeholders with the General Legal Council, the IRC, are unacceptable for the simple reason that regulators have failed to adapt. "
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