Lawyer and former Member of Parliament for Gomoa West Constituency, Alexander Abban says the Ghana School of Law has outlived its relevance and it is about time the institution is scrapped.
According to him, it is no secret that the country needs more lawyers to handle cases at the courts and despite this, the Ghana School of Law keeps turning potential lawyers away through interviews and examinations.
“It is not as though we have too many lawyers and that they are being protected. You go to the circuit court and it is the police who are doing prosecution. They are doing that not because that is the system but ordinarily a policeman is on one side of the case and a lawyer is on the other side of the case. You can imagine the imbalance. But if we had enough lawyers, even at that level you should have lawyers being the prosecutors.”
He added that “we should scrap the Ghana School of Law because we don’t need it. Once you scrap it, this issue of lack of space leading to examinations and interviews will be done away with.”
His call comes at the back of this year’s law entrance exams which saw massive failures as a result of the General Legal Council’s decision to apply a new rule which required candidates to have a 50% pass in each of both sections A and B of the examination.
Mr. Abban says scrapping the Ghana School of Law will help save the law aspirations of many Ghanaians.
Meanwhile, Tony Baah, leader of the aggrieved 499 candidates who passed the 2021 entrance exams but were not offered admission to the Ghana School of Law, says they will not hesitate to seek legal redress to their grievances.
At a press conference Tuesday, the group said they have been treated unfairly, something they describe as an unjustified denial to be admitted to the Law School after obtaining the pass mark.
According to Mr. Baah, the students must be admitted because they passed the entrance exam adding that per the requirements, a candidate must obtain 50% to be offered admission to the Ghana School of Law.
He, therefore, called on the General Legal Council to publish the results of all candidates who took part in the exams.
Source: Lydia Sekyi Acquah/ATLFMNEWS
