The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has stated that the proposed Legal Education Bill, 2025, is intended to transfer professional legal education from the Ghana School of Law to accredited universities, a move he believes will expand access and end years of restrictions associated with legal training in the country.
The bill also proposes the abolition of the current entrance examination, replacing it with a National Bar Examination.
Dr. Ayine explained that the new system will create a fairer and more inclusive pathway for all qualified citizens who wish to pursue a career in law.
Debating the Legal Education Bill, 2025, the Attorney-General assured the House that robust quality-control mechanisms will be put in place to maintain high standards in legal education and professional training.
“What this bill does is to clear the bottle necks. We are introducing an accreditation programme that will make sure that it is not every mushroom LLB school that will produce lawyers who will go to write the bar exam.
“There will be accreditation and quality control to ensure that if there is a university producing LLB candidates, those candidates would have gone through a training that is either equivalent to or better,” he said.
Source: CNR
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