Dr Ansah Asare stated that legal education in Ghana was previously under the control of the GBA, but that control was transferred to the General Legal counsel by Ghana’s premier president Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
According to him, Dr Nkrumah’s decision to do so was due to the fact he feared the Association.
Explaining his call for control of legal education by the Bar Association in an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem on Friday, he said the Acheampong Government in 1976 tried to hand over control of legal education back to the Bar, but rescinded his decision when the Association went on a strike against his government.
He advised Justice Anin-Yeboah to find out arrangements surrounding the ceding of control of legal education to the Bar association from the then Presidents of the association and implement them.
If approved, Justice Anin-Yeboah, who is the fourth longest-serving Justice of the Supreme Court, will succeed Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo who retires on December 20, 2019. Read Full Story
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