GSL exams should be decentralised – legal practitioner
“So we can have a Ghana School of Law (GSL) bar exam across board and definitely, the best law faculties will stand out, in respect of their coaching, preparation and investment in their law students,”
Ms. Gloria Ofori Boadu, a Managing Legal Practitioner at GOB Law Consult and also law lecturer says the entrance examinations taken at the Ghana School of Law (GSL), should be decentralised to accredited Ghana School of Law and law faculties.
She also added that for quality assurance purposes, the General Legal Council should sit as an administration and regulation board in that effect.
“Regulation is very important for quality assurance,” she stated.
She was speaking at the international conference on ‘The Future of Legal Education in Ghana/Africa,’ in its second day of stakeholder consultations on the policy, legal, management and ethical frameworks of legal education.
“So we can have a Ghana School of Law (GSL) bar exam across board and definitely, the best law faculties will stand out, in respect of their coaching, preparation and investment in their law students,” she said.
As part of recommendations, she added that of the 10 courses taught at the GSL, some could be liaised to the law faculties to teach.
The National Association of Law Students (NALS) has also earlier on reiterated calls for the decentralisation of professional legal training to faculties that have the capacity to administer the training in the country.
This particularly followed events after the release of the 2021 Ghana School of Law entrance exams results.
About 790 representing 28% out of the total 2,824 who sat for the exams were deemed to have passed the 2021 GSL Entrance Exams while 2,034 candidates were said to have failed.
However, in as much as most stakeholders acknowledge that faculties can be made to teach the professional legal courses, there are dire challenges with structures in law faculties.
