A former Director of the Ghana Law School, Kwaku Ansah Asare, is advocating the scrapping of Ghana’s General Legal Council; the body responsible for the supervision of legal education in the country.
He argues the institution, which has in recent times come under criticisms, has become irrelevant in the dispensation of its functions hence ought to be scrapped.
The General Legal Council was set up in 1960 by the Legal Profession Act 32 primarily to organise legal education and uphold standards of professional conduct and discipline. It is chaired by the Chief Justice.
“I propose that the General Legal Council as a body be scrapped,” he said, and recommended the setting up of a National Council for legal education in its place.
He also urged the government to pass a law school act, saying “I hereby call upon the government again as a matter of urgency pass a law school act.”
Mr Ansah Asare who is the founder and rector of Mountcrest University College, made the proposals at the school’s second congregation and sixth matriculation ceremony in Accra.
He said the “ongoing reform can only be total and complete when the General Legal Council, which is the statutory body responsible for the organization of legal education in the legal profession of this country, reforms itself”.
Mr Ansah Asare also called on the National Accreditation Board to enhance its monitoring and supervisory role regarding the establishment of universities in the country.
Source: GhanaWeb
