GLC making students sign an undertaking before exams is outmoded – Former Law School staff
A former employee of the Ghana School of Law has described the decision by the General Legal Council to force students seeking to attain legal education at the Ghana Law School to sign an undertaking before sitting for the as outmoded and backward.
According to Mr Ansa-Asare, he is of the view that the General Legal Council, the regulator of legal education in Ghana has flouted the law by forcing students to sign an agreement to the effect that they will not challenge the results after the exams.
“It is unconstitutional, how come you are training people to become lawyers who should be independent and speak their mind and then you tell them you are writing an exam but if it turns out that you have failed don’t question me, don’t ask me anything and don’t go to court.’’
He, therefore, urged the student body to take up this matter in court for the General Legal Council to know that they must work within rules.
The General Legal Council is in the news again for resorting to a murky but authoritarian system to deny hundreds of aspiring law students entry into the Ghana School of law.
Out of 2,824 law students that applied to study at the Ghana School of Law this year, only 790 have been admitted causing a public outcry of heavy-handedness by hidden faces at the GLC.
Mr Ansa-Asare reiterated that there is the need for the scrapping of the General Legal Council to effect the required legal reforms in Ghana which is long overdue.
He also revealed that making students sign such an undertaking is one of the features of a backward and outmoded General Legal Council, adding that the signing of the undertaking is not legitimate at all.
In October last year, a High court ruled that the undertaking is illegal but the General Legal Council continues to compel students to sign it before taking the exams.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
