Yaw Oppong said the current system undermines the country’s interest because it makes it impossible for more students to be enrolled into the law programme.
‘If all the citizens want to become lawyers, it is the duty of the state to provide them with legal education,’ the private legal practitioner said on Joy FM/MultiTV’s Saturday news analysis program, Newsfile.
The admission process of the Ghana School of Law came under scrutiny this week after Supreme Court declared it “unconstitutional.”
The case was filed by US-based Ghanaian Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare who argued the ceiling placed on admission of students into the school is “grossly unfair.”
The School requires applicants to sit for an examination after which an interview session held to select students.
The apex court in a unanimous decision said the School’s system is contrary to the requirement in Legislative Instrument (L.I) 1296.
The L.I requires an applicant to have passed specific seven subjects during the LL.B programme, be of good behavior and should hold an LL.B degree in order to be considered for admission into the Ghana School of Law.
The court directed the school to either put in place a quota system for its accredited institutions or have its current system sanctioned by Parliament within the next six months.
It, however, said the ruling will not affect the ongoing admission process for the 2017/18 academic year.
Mr Oppong had earlier told Joy News he would have been happy if the court had completely scrapped the admission process of the Ghana School of Law entirely.
He told Newsfile host, Samson Lardy Anyenini it is in the interest of the country to have more lawyers since there is currently a deficit.
The law lecturer said the School’s main campus located at Makola in Accra could admit more than 800 students if it were to adopt the shift system and its satellite campuses will also accept more students than they are currently doing. Read Full Story
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