{"id":396195,"date":"2018-01-29T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396195"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:49:13","slug":"nana-addo-petitioned-over-li-for-law-school-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/nana-addo-petitioned-over-li-for-law-school-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo petitioned over LI for law school admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Association of Law Students\u00a0has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to cause the withdrawal of the controversial Legal Profession Regulations 2017 from Parliament.<\/p>\n
The Association wants the President to impress on Members of Parliament to vote against the regulation.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”OunHzZXNpqy1ftHVzmh16Iki6JmkGQJc”]The General Legal Council laid the Regulations in Parliament in mid-December 2017, in response to a Supreme Court order for a clear admission procedure into the Ghana School of Law, and call to the Ghana Bar.<\/p>\n
The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council 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
The LI is expected to become Law in February, 2018.<\/p>\n
But the law students maintain that if the document is passed in its current form, it will restrict access to legal education.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the President of the Association, Noah Tetteh, said, “we are asking for students to be allowed to go to the law school, and directly after that, there should be an examination that they will take and if they pass that exam, then those who make it will be called to the Bar as lawyers. We are asking for the intervention of the President. Take away the exams. Take away the interview and allow students to go straight to the law school to be trained as lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n Noah Tetteh stressed that, the Legal Council should be more focused on improving the quality of legal education and not restricting access.<\/p>\n “The Act which regulates Legal education has been there since the inception of legal education in Ghana. It is not about restricting people\u2019s access to the law school that will churn out quality lawyers in Ghana. It’s about allowing people to go to the law school to improve facilities to improve their education. That is the reason why we petitioned the President.\u201d<\/p>\n