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Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah says the General Legal Council (GCL) is developing measures to develop the capacities of institutions running LLB programs.
In pursuit of this goal, he said, authorities were working closely with the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to ensure the review and development of the curricula, instructional method and admissions procedures of all approved universities running the LLB program.
“All institutions offering the LLB program will undergo a more rigorous selection process before being approved.
The evaluation criteria will include the types of programs, academic staff and grades, proportion of students, library funds, physical facilities, among others, ”he explained.
Judge Anin-Yeboah, who spoke at the 10th anniversary launch of the Kumasi campus of the Ghana Law School, indicated that more emphasis would be placed on the areas related to mock practical work.
This is with respect to clinical work, mock courts, the courtroom, and mock interviews and negotiations, to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of legal education in the country.
According to the Chief Justice, the Council was also restructuring the operations of the independent review committee to enable it to fulfill its mandate more efficiently.
Judge Anin-Yeboah, who is also president of the General Legal Council, explained that universities that meet the established requirements would receive more approval to run the professional law course in the future under the general supervision of the Council.
The launch theme was: “Ten years after the Kumasi campus, what’s next in professional legal education.”
The Acting Head of the Ghana Law School, Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, said the Kumasi campus had come of age and could now admit more students for legal education.
He indicated that the 2020/2021 academic year was admitting more than 160 new students and expressed his gratitude to KNUST for allowing them space on campus to increase their enrollment.
