It is unfair, unjust, improper to use one exam to assess Law School entrants-Sammy Gyamfi
This call comes after Two thousand and thirty-four(2,034) LLB Candidates failed this year’s Ghana School of Law(GSL) entrance Examination.
The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has described the Ghana law School Entrance Exams as unfair, unjust, and improper.
According to him, it is not right to use only one entrance examination to assess LLB graduates who are seeking to pursue their professional Law degrees.
Therefore the system being implemented at the Law School will rather wither and limit the chances of people who yearn to become lawyers in the Country.
He made this known on Saturday, October 2, 2021, on Newsfile aired on the JOyNews Channel.
Mr.Gyamfi indicated that the country needs more lawyers thus the only way to achieve that desired target is to rather expand access to Professional Legal Education in the Country.
“You cannot assess the intelligence of LLB graduates with just one entrance examination. You put together 10 substantive law courses: contract law, criminal law. You set a few objectives, one or two essay questions, a student is not able to make 50 and you say the student has failed,” he noted.
He further said that with the implementation of quality standards, the Nation can get other institutions to also run professional Law programs in the country to deal with the infrastructural burden on the Ghana School of Law.
Also, he was of the view that allowing only the Ghana School of Law to run the professional Legal Courses, makes it monopolistic. Thus a deliberate attempt to limit the number of lawyers in the country.
This call comes after Two thousand and thirty-four(2,034) LLB Candidates failed this year’s Ghana School of Law(GSL) entrance Examination.
Only 790 representing 28% out of the total 2,824 who sat for the exams, passed.
Thus 72% of the LLB applicants who sat for the 2021 exams failed.
