There are plans to further expand facilities at the Ghana School of Law (GSL) to help increase its intake of law students, the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has said.
She, however, said no matter the level of expansion of the Ghana School of Law, the General Legal Council (GLC) will not open the floodgates for the admission of students who do not meet the requirement.
“The position of the GLC remains that admission to the Ghana School of Law for the professional legal education requires that successful candidate obtain a minimum mark of 50 per cent in an entrance examination administered by the Independent Examination Committee,” she said.
Justice Sophia Akuffo was speaking at an enrollment of 305 lawyers to Bar in Accra on Friday, reports Graphic Online's Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson.
Her comment follows public concerns about the massive failures of students who sit for the entrance examinations of the GSL.
Out of 1800 students who sat for this year’s exams only 128 passed and gained admission into the GSL.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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The dumbest thing i ever heard in a free market economy. Allow competition to work. You also began from somewhere, give others the chance to also enter and develop. This is a clear attempt to perpetuate inequality.
The number of students failing the law exam is a travesty. That is the issue. We cannot have an education system that produces graduates who cannot pass law school exams which means we are doing something very very wrong. Secondly, i have never understood the entrance exam to enter the law school in the first place. Ones someone is able to complete the academic part of the course, thee person should be able to go through the professional part indeed which is purely practice of procedure. The UK is on the verge of curtailing the Professional course and going purely for future lawyers to seek employment in law firms and organisation applying law as the main part of their process. This is to open law to people who under normal circumstances would not be able to get into law. Serious countries are moving away from chew and pour to practical skills. Our law school is another level for those who can regurgitate texts. The law students should not necessarily sit unnecessarily difficult exams to show they are good lawyers as today, managing a law firm is not for rote learners but those who have practical skills. No wonder real law firms in the country are not more than 10. Law has been made an elite qualification and profession and the elitists are just making sure that peasants are not able to enter. Any other argument will be untenable as the evidence is there. How can a country of about 35 million have only about 3000 qualified criminal law practitioners? Is not not rather an indictment on the training system in the country? Those supporting this should know that there are embassy's with their trade desks in the country which are feeding this information back to their countries with its impact on our international trade. This is no joke. Why is it that even more difficult subjects or professions like ACCA, ACIB, CFA, CIM and the rest does not have this problem? Even the Ghana Medical School has not got this crises. Then again some of these students get frustrated and fly out to UK, US even to Nigeria to do this very course and complete within the time allowed? It is just the elite, the CJ included who want to keep the professional qualification to themselves.
I perfectly agree with her. Students must learn to abide by rules and regulations. It was trite that they were all after apor and those so called first class students are over-hyped making them feel it's automatic to enter the law school. Comprehending a question and answering is key to reading law.
Keep the standard , ah why every body want to read law,every radio serial call want to read Law. Let them Come and Ask ICA ghana student and see, some have written like 5years and are still trying. please raise the standard even up the separate the good from the bad.