Three Members of Parliament are set to file a private member’s bill seeking to address challenges associated with legal education in Ghana.
The bill is being sponsored by Members of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dominic Ayine, Patrick Yaw Boamah, Okaikoi Central, and Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, Asawase.
A memo from the three MPs said the bill is expected to bridge gaps in the “current legal and regulatory framework by providing for critical aspects of legal education that remain either partially regulated or wholly regulated.”
The MPs in their bill are recommending the decoupling of the administration and regulation of legal education from that of the legal profession.
They are calling for the establishment of a Council for Legal Education and Training, which shall “be in charge of legal education in the Republic.”
“The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall, in its corporate name, be capable of suing and be sued, acquiring and disposing of property and performing any other acts that a body corporate can perform under the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992) in furtherance of its purpose,” a portion of the proposed bill said.
This motion follows the General Legal Council’s (GLC) decision to admit some 499 law students who were denied entry into the Ghana School of Law.
The 499 law students were failed in the law entrance exams after a new quota system was initiated by the General Legal Council.
After protests from the students, including a lawsuit, the Attorney General recommended that the GLC admits the students.
Aside from the impending private member’s bill, there are reports that the government through the Attorney General is also seeking to put forward a draft bill for the same purpose of reviewing Ghana’s legal education regime.
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