The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has declared that the much-anticipated Legal Education Bill will break the Ghana School of Law's long-standing monopoly over professional legal training.
Speaking on Joy News' PM Express on Tuesday, May 27, the legislator-himself a lawyer-called the move a necessary reform to "democratise legal education" and correct a "corrupted" system. "We waged this war from about 2018," the Member of Parliament for South Dayi said. "Intake to the law school became acrimonious, contentious, and eventually corrupted.
Corrupted because evidence emerged that even persons who didn't write law school entrance exams got admitted." Citing findings from the General Legal Council's own disciplinary committee, Mr Dafeamekpor alleged that at least 11 students were smuggled into the law school. "My information is that they were over 33," he added. "But to minimise the impact, they said 11.
What became the fate of those 11 students?
