Ghana is producing law graduates who don't know how to perform in court, according to former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Kwaku Ansa-Asare.
The veteran legal educator told Joy News' PM Express on Monday, June 2, that the current system is failing to produce practice-ready lawyers. "We are training lawyers who don't know how to move a court," he said bluntly. "Your first day in court after being called to the Bar, the judge says, 'You are before me, move the court.' And you don't even know how to do it.
That's a big problem." His remarks come amid growing debate over the Legal Education Bill, which seeks to reform aspects of the country's legal training framework.
But for Mr Ansa-Asare, the proposed reforms are fundamentally flawed from the outset, starting with the name of the bill. "In the first place, the title 'Legal Education Bill' is a little troubling," he said. "Legal education comprises both academic and professional training.
