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General News of Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-07-24
Director of Policy Research at the Center for Democratic Development, Dr. Kojo Asante
The director of policy research at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, insisted that the creation of more lawyers in the country would reduce not the quality of legal education in the country.
According to him, the system should not be altered so as to necessarily limit the number of people trained and graduated as lawyers.
Asante's opinions are based on a recent statement by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo that she would not allow mbad production of lawyers in the country.
Judicial, Bar and Faculty Conference on "The Evolution of the Law – The Judge, the Lawyer and the Academic," said the Chief Justice, "Those of you, as well as those from your scale lecturers, mbad admissions in the professional law course and mbad production of lawyers, pay 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. "
But Dr. Asare said that although there is a real concern to ensure that quality is not sacrificed for the benefit of a so-called mbadive admission policy, there must not be deliberate actions to reduce the number of people wanting to be trained as lawyers.
"The logic for me is not appropriate. Let's review the plan, but setting a ceiling is not the way to badess quality. She is an important voice but we still have to make our point. If more of us understand and appreciate the need to change the system, I think that ultimately, that's what we should be doing, "he said.
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.
Focus on the efficiency of the courts and not on the number of lawyers produced
Professor Kwaku Asare wants Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to focus on the efficiency of the courts in Ghana and allow universities to provide law training 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.
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