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By Benjamin Mensah, GNA
Accra, April 4, GNA – Professor Aaron Michael
Oquaye, the Speaker of Parliament ordered Wednesday that a copy to the
recommendations of the House on a petition of professional law students
their 2017/18 examinations be made available to the Attorney General (AG) and the
General Legal Advice (GLC) for appropriate action.
Among the recommendations made by the
Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament,
that the remarks costs of 3 000 GH ¢ invoiced by the GLC for pointing out a paper were
high and should be reduced to 500 ¢ GH; and the period of re-marking of
The 2017/2018 exam scripts must be reopened so that students who have failed
can enjoy it.
The President gave the directive after the House
adopted a report of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and
Parliamentary Affairs, on a petition from law students wishing to obtain a
review of the results of the new 2017/2018 professional law course
examinations.
Law students, through students
The Council of Representatives (GSR) of the Ghana Law School (GSL) asked the
President on March 5, 2019, expressing his grief and disappointment,
among others, on the mbad failure recorded in the new law on professions of 2018
The course review, attributed to factors such as questions asked outside the
approved syllabus.
Other issues were related to the late publication of
results, disconnects between the Independent Review Committee (IRC),
defects in the correction, recording and accounting of the results of the examination.
There were also complaints about the high cost of
the remarks and difficulties encountered in the implementation of the Repeat program
Policy under LI 2355.
Depending on the issues, the professional right
students sought the intervention of the Chamber to review the results of the
New examinations of professional law courses 2017/2018 and cancellation of a set of questions
outside the approved program and answer questions more than 100%.
The Special Parliamentary Committee stated in the
indicated that it was of the opinion that the expenses of remarks of 3 000,00 GH ¢ invoiced by
the GLC to notice an article was high and may deny students with legitimate
base of remarking request. He implored the GLC to reduce the cost of remarking
and consider reopening the resumption period to allow applicants who
has pbaded the 2017/2018 exams to exercise this right.
According to recent results published by
Committee of Independent Reviews of the General Legal Council, out of 525
Of the students who pbaded the law exams, only 64 pbaded all the tests.
Two hundred and eighty four students were
asked to repeat and rewrite the 10 courses of the programs they recorded,
while 177 others who have been referred to various newspapers will have to reposition these
papers.
The examinations were criminal
Procedure, Civil Procedure, Business and Commercial Practice, Legal Practice
Management, legal accounting, transfer and drafting, proof and
Interpretation.
Mr. Ben Abdallah Banda, Chairman of the Committee
In its report, the Special Committee stated that the recommendations were intended to mitigate
"The mbadive failures recorded in the new law on professions 20017/18
Examinations.
The Committee recommended the adoption of a
removal of off-site marking to ensure rapid re-marking of scripts.
In addition, he wants all the patterns of manufacture and
examiner's report made available to GLC students and faculty.
He asked the IEC to consider holding additional meetings.
Examination for all the candidates referred in the 2018 professional law course
Timely review to ensure that successful applicants are
registered in a year.
Mr. Banda announced that the committee had
planned to involve all stakeholders in the legal education sector in
the Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill, 2018, which had been tabled in the House of Commons
and currently before the Committee.
"In this regard, the committee has already
received two GSL speaker proposals aimed at reforming
legal education in Ghana and would consider the same with other proposals
which can be submitted by other stakeholders.
Mr. Kwabena Owusu Amoah, President of the CBC
GSL in a conversation with reporters, said the students were satisfied
with the recommendations, and they expected the Council to follow up on these recommendations.
"As the leader of the minority said, the GLC should
continue their investigation into the relevance of questions and answers
consider this when making their decisions.
"This year we had an accident program and a
a lot of challenges because of the one year system reversed to two years but some
problems still persist. We hope that these problems will be solved so
that we can have a better future for legal education, "he said.
GNA
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