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Legal practitioner Maurice Ampaw says law students who have been failed in their final exams are “disrespectful” with their approach to their superiors over the issue.

According to him, “The bar cannot accept such disrespectful students just because they have the backings from some bigwigs”

“They cannot push the General Legal Council” – he said after the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law gave the General Legal Council (GLC) a 30-day ultimatum to re-mark the scripts of the 206 final law students who failed their professional exams.

The SRC however wants the re-marking to be done by an independent body other than the Independent Examination Board (IEB) instituted by the GLC to oversee the administration of exams.

“We are asking the General Legal Council which is the mother body responsible for overseeing legal education to appoint independent, credible, professional markers to remark all the scripts as they purport to say that students have failed and to give us feedback within 30 days…,” the SRC Vice President of the Ghana School of Law, Kumasi Campus, Lenin Anane Adjei said at a press conference in Accra Wednesday.

The students have consequently called for the total scrapping of the Independent Examination Board (IEB) after 206 final law students failed their professional exams, while another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers out of the 474 students who sat for the 2017-2018 final exams.

Only 91 students, constituting 19 per cent, are deemed to have passed their exams and are likely to be called to the Bar this year.

Speaking on the issue on Neat FM’s morning show, ‘Ghana Montie’, the self-acclaimed ‘celebrity lawyer’ advised that “The students must respect their superiors despite their plight”

“They should find a nice way of addressing the issue. They should begin to lobby them in a nice way. Don’t attack them [law lecturers] in the media. The insults and intimidation won’t solve their problems. Lobby them to reason. The attack on social media is highly unnecessary. They [Students] should go to the Supreme Court and meet the same judicial members they are insulting on social media” he said