Case of 143 Law School applicants, GLC adjourned to November 9
Moreover, an advertisement to this effect was published on May 14, 2021, in the Daily Graphic as part of an invitation for applications from qualified LLB graduates for admission into the Ghana School of Law.
The High Court(Human Rights Division) has adjourned the case involving 143 applicants of the Ghana School of Law(GSL) against the General Legal Council to November 9, 2021.
When the case was called today, the Attorney General requested an adjournment to file certain processes.
Lawyer for the applicants, Martin Kpebu also indicated that they will be filing a supplementary response once they are served with the AG’s processes.
143 applicants of the Ghana School of Law sued the General Legal Council and Attorney General, seeking an interlocutory injunction against the respondents.
According to the applicants, they sat the August 24, 2021 entrance Exams of the Ghana School of Law and passed yet were unjustifiably denied admission by the General Legal Council.
The suit which is deposed to by one Daniel Sackey, an applicant of the GSL, is seeking the court’s intervention to curb irreparable damage that will be done to them if the 2021/2022 academic year of the Ghana School of Law is started without them.
Furthermore, they note that while pursuing their LLB, they heard about the 50% pass mark into the Ghana School of Law.
That this 50% pass mark has over the years been communicated publicly to Ghanaians and the same was done in 2019 by the then Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo.
They also state that before the entrance exams in May this year, the Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law, Mr.Maxwell Opoku Agyemang reiterated the 50% pass mark policy.
Moreover, an advertisement to this effect was published on May 14, 2021, in the Daily Graphic as part of an invitation for applications from qualified LLB graduates for admission into the Ghana School of Law.
In summary, they indicate that the admission procedure involved them passing the written examination conducted by the 1st respondent per the requirement they had heard years ago.
However, the applicants lament that contrary to the above they sat the exams and obtained marks ranging from 50 to 61 but the General Legal Council has refused to offer them admission based on the illegal explanation that even though they attained the minimum threshold, if their marks were broken down, they will not obtain at least one-half(50%) of the marks in each section of the examination; A being a total of 40 marks and Section B being a total of 60 marks. Thus they did not obtain at least 20 marks in section A and 30 marks in section B.
Therefore, the Court presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Abodakpi heeded the AG’s request, thus adjourning proceedings to November 9, 2021.
“with the consent of the parties and their lawyers, this case would be adjourned to Nov 9, 2021.” he indicated.
