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Law students were arrested by the police and dispersed with rubber bullets in their latest protest.
Supreme Court justice candidate Yoni Kulendi supported calls for reforms in Ghana’s legal education system.
The private legal professional with more than two decades of experience at the bar said the current system is creating academic victims that must be addressed with reforms.
In front of the Parliament Appointments Committee on Tuesday, Mr. Kulendi previously said that there was only one Law School and one professional law school.
However, the number of faculties has grown with increasing population and interest in different disciplines; But professional law schools have not increased, he lamented.
All MPs and appointees in the executive arms of government, he said, need a basic understanding of how the law works.
According to Mr. Kulendi, the desire of these groups themselves to have a working knowledge of the law has created a greater influx in law schools.
Faced with such a situation, he said that there will surely be a race to the professional school, the Ghana Law School, which is creating victims.
Kulendi says that reforms to address these challenges must be robust and capable of withstanding the passage of time.
The candidate’s reactions come amid controversial calls for reforms in the country’s legal education system after successive massive failures at the entry and exit points of the Ghana Law School.
In 2019, for example, only a measly 128 out of 1,820 LLB holders who took the Ghana Law School entrance exam passed.
This was after a series of mass failures at the bar and previous mass failures at the entry point.
The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana Law School has organized rallies to protest massive failures and push for reforms that allow for flexible entry into law school.
The former Chief Justice, who was the head of the General Legal Council that regulates legal education, previously promised that there would be no mass production of lawyers under his supervision.
A position that sparked backlash from critics who said that mass production is not equal to lower production.
Meanwhile, there are ongoing talks to overhaul the legal education system.
