{"id":379171,"date":"2017-12-01T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=379171"},"modified":"2017-12-01T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:03:47","slug":"mps-on-legislation-cttee-question-li-for-law-school-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/mps-on-legislation-cttee-question-li-for-law-school-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs on Legislation C’ttee question LI for law school admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
There is growing resentment in the Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament against portions of the draft legal professions regulations that is currently being considered by the committee before being laid.<\/p>\n
The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council (GLC) will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examination.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”P5AHaw67oeehdLakcoHTCXXIW15Qt0Ki”]A Member of Parliament\u2019s Subsidiary Legislation Committee and MP for Daboya-Mankarigu, Mahama Shaibu, told Citi News’<\/strong> Duke Opoku Mensah that members of the committee are waiting for clarification of issues that are irregular to the parent law.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you construct an LI, it hinges on a parent law. That\u2019s what\u00a0an LI seeks to do, and so you will construct those laws in conformity with the parent laws, and therefore some of the issues that came up had to do with issues outside of that, but some too were within the parameter of the law,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n The LI is coming into force following a Supreme Court ruling that declared\u00a0as unconstitutional,\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>the requirement by the GLC asking applicants to the Ghana Law school to undertake an examination and subsequent interview before admission.<\/p>\n It appears the Council is only seeking to legalize the process, by getting the LI to back it.<\/p>\n