Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare
Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian law professor will on Thursday, June 29, 2017, be speaking at Media General Group’s maiden edition News Lecture Series at Accra City Hotel (Novotel Hotel), Accra Central, 6.00PM.
Prof. Asare has recently won a Supreme Court case against the General Legal Council to scrap entrance exams and interview as admission criteria to enter into Ghana School of Law for a professional law studies.
Read a copy of the invitation:
[ads1]INVITATION TO LECTURE BY PROF. STEPHEN ASARE.
The Media General Group (Owners of TV3, 3FM, ONUA FM, CONNECT FM and 3NEWS.COM) respectfully request the pleasure of your company at its Maiden MG News Lecture Series, under the topic:
“MAKING SENSE OF GHANA’S SUPREME COURT RULING ON THE ADMISSION CRITERIA TO PROFESSIONAL LAW STUDIES, AND OTHER MATTERS.”
The Supreme Court of Ghana, on Thursday 22nd June 2017 gave a landmark verdict, declaring as unconstitutional the admission criteria instituted by the General Legal Council of Ghana, into the Professional Law Studies.
The ruling has not come without controversy, as several questions emerge from the judgement.
Media General News will on Thursday 29th June 2017, host a lecture by Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare (Legal Luminary, and the KPMG Professor of Accounting), to address the following issues:
▪What does the Supreme Courts’ ruling mean for the admission process to Professional Legal Studies at the Ghana School of Law?
▪Did the Supreme Court Err in Law by directing that the “unconstitutional” admission criteria should be applied to the current 2017-2018 batch of students?
▪Will the Supreme Courts’ recommendation for a quota system to be instituted for admissions into the Professional Legal Studies guarantee an unfettered right of equal educational opportunity and access to facilities?
The lecture will also address the following thorny issues;
▪The law prohibiting “Touting and Advertisement” by lawyers: L.I. 613
▪Ghana’s dual nationality law and the Constitutional protection against discrimination
▪Has the work of the Constitution Review Commission (instituted by Former President John Evans Atta Mills) been a waste of time and money?
DATE: Thursday 29th June, 2017.
TIME: 6.00PM
VENUE: Accra City Hotel (Novotel Hotel), Accra Central
We will be honoured to have you at the program.
Thank you.
MEDIA GENERAL NEWS