The National Law Students Association has called on President Akufo Addo to intervene in the demands for legal education reforms in the country.
Agitations for legal education reforms in the country has heightened following the massive failure recorded in this year's entrance exams into the Ghana School of Law.
A peaceful protest by the students over the matter on Monday turned chaotic after police allegedly brutalized some of the protesting students when they attempted seeking audience with the Presidency over their concerns.
Addressing the media in Accra today, the SRC President of the Ghana School of Law and a member of the National Law Students Association, Jonathan Aluwa stated the measures they want taken in regards to legal reforms in the country.
''We are calling on the President to act now to reform legal education to make it more accessible, equitable, affordable and give opportunities to students who qualify.''
''We are calling on the President to intervene by directing the Attorney General to order the General Legal Council to withdraw the illegal undertaken signed by students ahead of taking entrance examination''.
He added that : ''Having withdrawn the undertaken we are asking that marking schemes will be published so that the students who were purported to have failed the exams can apply to have their scripts remarked if they believe that their script conform to the marking scheme''.
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Law students demo
The demonstration dubbed '#OpenUpLegalEducation' begun at the Ghana School of Law through to the Ministries and the Liberation road heading towards the Jubliee House to petition the Presidency over recent mass failure at the Ghana Law School entrance exams.
The demonstrators were halted by the police at the Sankara overpass on the Liberation road, the police stated that they will not allow the law students to proceed to the Jubilee House.
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The tension became high as the police confronted the law students, they were then dispersed with a water cannon and 13 of the students were arrested.
Meanwhile, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has described as unacceptable the brutality meted out to law students by the Ghana Police Service during their demonstration on Monday, October 7 2019.