Ghana School of Law will not admit new students if..

Ghana School of Law has indicated that the school will not admit new students if the new Legislative Instrument that will enable them to conduct exams for the students to cut down intake is not passed by Parliament.

According to Ghana School of Law and the General Legal Council, the passage of the LI will legalize the school's regulations in terms of intake of new students. 

The Supreme Court has last year ruled that both entrance examinations and subsequent interview for entry into the Ghana School of Law to pursue professional law course was unconstitutional and directed the school to formulate an LI that will make the regulations for entry into the school constitutional.

The LI was laid before Parliament but was later withdrawn from Parliament by the Attorney General.

But the lawyer for the Association of law students Kofi Bentil before the Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, February 14 said the passing of the LI will turn to legalize what the Supreme Court has described as unconstitutional.

According to him, the passage of the LI will restrict access to law education in the country.

Explaining further in a radio interview he said the decision of the Ghana School of Law to conduct entrance examination and interviews afterward is not helping the system because there is a BAR examination at the end of the course.

Korsi Senyo drags Ghana School of Law to Supreme Court over Legal Education in Ghana

Civil Right Activist, Emmanuel Korsi Senyo has sued the Ghana Legal Council at the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the Council’s monopoly over administering of legal education in Ghana.

According to the activist, Article 25(2) of the1992 Constitution provide “every person shall have the right, at his own expense, to establish and maintain a private school or schools at all levels and of such categories and in accordance with such conditions as may be provided by law”

The plaintiff argues that considering the above provision in the 1992 constitution of Ghana, “Legal education for that matter is not exclusive in this category” of education.

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