Three Ghanaian law students who pursued their legal education in the Gambia after they failed to gain admission to the Ghana School of Law have been awarded various honours for their impressive academic performance, ABC News can exclusively report.
The three, first attempted to gain admission to the Ghana Law School in 2017 but failed on two occasions and then attempted a third time in 2018 and were again rejected.
The three who have been called to the Gambian Bar are Albert Agyepong, a graduate from the GIMPA Faculty of Law, Naa Koshie Mills and Chelsea Oforiwaa Ofoe.
They will be required to go through an interview and upon admission, commence a post-call class at the Ghana School of Law.
Some law students, legal practitioners and members of Civil Society Organisations have teamed up to call on the government and the General Legal Council to open up legal education in Ghana.
This follows recent incidents of mass failures of law students at the Ghana School of law and repeated cases of majority of applicants failing to gain admission into the School.
Disclosing the success of the law students in Gambia on Facebook, the Ghana National Association of Law Students, a body formed to spearhead the call for reforms in legal education in Ghana, stated, “Albert Agyepong was adjudged best student in ‘Legal Drafting & Conveyancing’. He was also adjudged best student in ‘Company Law & Commercial Practices’. Naa Koshie Mills was adjudged best student in ‘Advocacy Skills’. Chelsea Oforiwaa Ofoe was adjudged best student in ‘Professional Conduct’.”
“Congratulations, Albert, Naa and Chelsea. Thank you for demonstrating that Ghanaian law students are good enough to compete with the very best elsewhere” they concluded to iterate their position that the various Faculties of Law in the country produce good material competent of gaining admission to the Law School and excelling in practice.
The Chief Justice has insisted that not under her watch will access to legal education be increased arguing that it has the potential of degrading the profession and cause reputation issues.
On October 7 this year, the Association of Law Students embarked on a demonstration to press home their demands for reforms and submitted a petition to the President, Akufo-Addo.
Source: abcnews.com
