News:
March 8, 2019
In the wake of continues and massive failures at the Ghana Bar examinations, Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu has called for the urgent need to rethink legal education through a national conversation to safeguard the future.
Reacting to a petition by students of the Ghana Law School to Parliament on the failures, the leader said there is need for Parliament to overhaul legal education and review the Act that constitutes the Ghana General Council legal in the country.
“We need to overhaul legal education, and we need to review the Ghana legal education, even the Act that constitutes that school, erh! General Legal Council and others, I think that Parliament must take a look at it” he said.
According to the Tamale South lawmaker who is also a lawyer, the training of lawyers should be a matter of interest to all Ghanaians since the nation needs them to ensure discipline and pillars of freedom of human rights and rule of law in the pursuit of democracy.
The Minority leader urged the urgent need for a national conversation to review the past and see the extent to which we (the country) can improve and expand access to legal education.
Mr Haruna Iddrisu noted the massive failures recorded during the Bar exams cannot be explained but there is the need to thoroughly examine the cause more effectively to help overhaul legal education in the country.
He assured the students of the leadership of Parliament’s commitment to engage the Speaker for the establishment of a committee to investigate their concerns.
Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com