Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare
A Ghanaian US-based law lecturer, Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asara has called for the immediate dissolution of the General Legal Council, the body that regulates legal profession and education in Ghana.
His call is following allegations of leaked exams papers of the Ghana [ads1]School of Law entrance exams held last Friday, July 27, 2018.
“Dissolve the GLC immediately; Cancel the leaked examination that should not have been held in the first place” – Prof. Asara said in a statement.
The Prof. who have been fighting the Council over the entrance exams says he hopes the “elected leaders” of Ghana will now “muster some courage to speak about the massive leakage in the so-called law school entrance examination”.
Prof. Asara dragged the General Legal Council to the Supreme Court saying that the entrance exams is illegal. The apex court ruled in his favor last year and gave the Council 6months to cancel the exams or back it by law.
However, the GLC is yet to meet the recommendations of the Supreme Court and yet ahead to conduct the “illegal entrance exams” last Friday, July 27, 2018 after the same Supreme Court had dismissed an injunction that was brought before it by the same plaintiff, Prof. Asare that sought to restrain the Council from conducting the exams.
Read excerpts of Prof. Asare’s statement:
Hopefully, this time our elected leaders will muster some courage to speak about the massive leakage in the so-called law school entrance examination.
And let us hope, for once, that poor students will not be called upon to be sacrificed for the ineptitude of the GLC and its so-called Independent Examination Board.
I propose the following:
1. Dissolve the GLC immediately;
2. Cancel the leaked examination that should not have been held in the first place;
3. Allow all students to take their professional courses in their Faculties, online or with private schools;
4. Administer a “leak proof” qualifying exam to these students using the regular time table (at the end of one year);
5. Set up a Council of Legal Education to regulate the education of law professionals;
6. Each accredited university should have a member on this Council, which will also have representatives from the dead GBA and the Superior Court;
7. Go to Bar exams that text students on applying common law principles (torts, contracts, etc) not bookkeeping and conveyancing as is currently done;
8. Let each LLB holder be eligible to apply for and take the leak proof Bar exam.
It is time for our elected leaders to speak for the 1,800 powerless students rather than silently align with their powerful but incompetent buddies on the GLC.
Da Yie!
Professor Asare