Parliament has passed the Legal Education Bill, 2025, marking a historic reform in Ghana’s legal education system. The legislation, which is now headed to the President for assent, ends the Ghana School of Law’s long-standing monopoly over professional legal training and opens the sector to accredited universities across the country. The Bill establishes a Council […]
Lawyer and law lecturer Thaddeus Sory has raised serious concerns about transparency in Ghana’s legal education system, suggesting that some individuals are being called to the Bar despite not meeting the necessary academic and attendance requirements. Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express on October 20, Mr. Sory questioned how some people manage to qualify as lawyers […]
Justice Nana Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong, the Director of Legal Education and head of the Ghana School of Law (GSL), has announced that his tenure will officially end on Sunday, August 31, 2025. In a message to students on Tuesday, August 12, Justice Oppong expressed gratitude to God for “love, guidance, and protection” during his […]
Leading Member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP and Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Samuel Awuku has been called to the Ghana Bar. Mr. Awuku was called to the Ghana Bar alongside some other prominent political personalities including the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway and the […]
The Director of Ghana School of Law, Yaw D. Oppong has provided insight into what ‘Makola’ means. In an interaction on the JoyNews’ The Law on Sunday, he stated that the name of the area where the Ghana School of Law is located, Makola, has two meanings in the Ga language, depending on the tone used in pronouncing […]
A report by a committee of inquiry set up by the General Legal Council (GLC) has established that 10 students were illegally admitted into the Ghana School of Law. The Committee is therefore recommending their withdrawal from the school. Admission into the only school running the professional law programme remains a contentious matter as every […]
The National Association of Law Students (NALS) have hit the streets of Accra to protest the Ghana School of Law entrance exam failures. The aggrieved candidates are accusing the General Legal Council (GLC) of their inability to gain admission following a new quota system. For this year’s exam, the rule changed, so candidates had to […]
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 […]
Students of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) have boycotted special classes organised by the school for students who have been repeated. Their refusal to oblige the school authorities with respect to the special classes emanate from the mass failure of students in the bar examination, which has been pegged at a colossal 88 percent. […]
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has promised to write a report on the concerns of students of the Ghana School of Law (GSL), which will be submitted to the floor of the house for discussion. The committee made the pledge yesterday at the end of a meeting with the Students’ […]
Students of the Ghana School of Law are calling for a reduction in the cost of remarking of their examination papers from 3 thousand Ghana Cedis to 500 Ghana Cedis. They also want the policy that makes it mandatory for students who fail their exams to be scrapped and abolished completely. The students who presented […]
PETITION TO INVESTIGATE AND INTERVENE IN THE CAUSES OF MASSIVE FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROFESSIONAL LAW COURSE EXAMINATIONS Dear Sir, Introduction Since the establishment of the Independent Examinations Committee (IEC), formerly known as the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) to administer both Entrance and Professional Law Examinations at the Ghana School of Law, there have […]
