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November 11, 2025
Chairman of the Constitutional Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Mahama Shaaibu has expressed his confidence of the Chief Justice Nominee Justice Paul Bafoe Bonnie when he receive approval and becomes the substantive head of the Judiciary.
According to him it has been a chaotic experience getting into the Ghana law school and he is is sure there will be a lot of legal education reforms in the Country.
He noted that the nominee in his answer to a question whether there are too many lawyers noted that, “since 1877 till date only eleven thousand lawyers have been trained as against a population of thirty-five million people and half of these people are in the cooperate world”.
In an interview after the vetting of the CJ nominee, he noted that the nominee noted that there is the need for more lawyers, at the same time there is the need for legal reforms.
And as Chairman on Constitutional Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, legal education reforms will demystify this whole issue of entrance exams to the law school, and it would be a thing of the past.
“Thousand three hundred students have to struggle just for only few of them to gain admonition to the law school”, he lamented.
The Builsa North lawmaker, James Agalga on his part added that when approved the nominee for CJ will get government support for legal education expansion, hence the manifesto of the current NDC government there are a lot of proposals aimed at reforming legal education.
“First, scraping the law school as we have it in its current form. The law faculties would be transformed into faculties that would also offer practical training”.
Additionally, ones you are done with your LLB programme, you are trained sufficiently to sit the bar exams, and when you pass, you are called to the bar, he noted.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com