Sosu calls for scrapping of GLC's mandate on legal education

Member of Parliament for Madina and current General Legal Council (GLC) member, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has called for the dissolution of the Council and the establishment of a new, transparent body to oversee legal education in the country.

Speaking on PM Express on Joy News, the legislator argued that the GLC has outlived its usefulness and lacks the accountability required of a modern regulatory institution. 

Mr. Sosu revealed that during the eighth Parliament, he introduced a bill that sought to dissolve the GLC. His views, he insisted, remain unchanged.

His statements echoed sentiments earlier shared on the same programme by Professor Kwaku Ansa-Asare, a former Director of the Ghana School of Law, who also urged a comprehensive overhaul of the GLC.

Sosu endorsed Professor Ansa-Asare’s recommendation that the Council of Legal Education should take over the GLC’s legal education responsibilities. “I wholeheartedly agree with Prof. Ansa-Asare on this,” he said.

The MP went on to disclose that legal reforms are already in motion at the executive level. “The bill is at the cabinet stage. Either this week or next, we expect it to be laid before Parliament,” he announced. While the final version of the bill has not yet been made public, Mr. Sosu expressed optimism that it would include key reforms—chief among them, stripping the GLC of its current mandate over legal education.

Importantly, he assured the public that Parliament would play an active role in shaping the final law. 

For Mr. Sosu, the issue goes beyond bureaucracy—it is about correcting historical injustices and addressing long-standing inefficiencies in the legal training system. “This is our chance to confront the deep-rooted challenges in legal education and fix a system that has failed to adapt to modern demands,” he concluded.