It's best for Ghana to have few good lawyers than many who aren't good enough - Chief Justice

Ghana's Chief Justice, Honorable Justice Sophia Akuffo has once again hinted on the fact that Ghana needs quality lawyers and not just quantity.

She says it will be best if Ghana has a few good lawyers and not many who may not be good enough.

Her latest stands come on the back of the mass failure of some law students who sat for this year's entrance exam at the Ghana School of Law.

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Speaking on the topic ‘Questing for Excellence’ at the 2019 University of Ghana Alumni Lectures, Justice Akuffo told the gathering “a good lawyer for each Ghanaian is what we deserve. Not lots of lawyers.

For emphasis, she added, “I will stand here again and say we need quality lawyers, not mass-produced lawyers.”

The Chief Justice has made these remarks for the third time this year.

In July this year, the Chief Justice speaking at the Bench, Bar and Faculty Conference at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra told lawyers and lecturers “who are busy advocating free scale, mass admissions into the professional law course, and mass production of lawyers, (to) be careful what they wish for.”

According to her “so long as (she) has anything to do with it (legal education), it won’t happen.”

“Just like you can’t mass produce doctors and surgeons, Ghanaians must not have mass-produced lawyers imposed on them,” the Chief Justice added.

The students who failed the entrance exam embarked on a demonstration which ended on a bad note as they clashed with the police.

The National Association of Law Students followed this up with a press conference that called on the president, Akufo-Addo, to make legal education more accessible by either repealing or amending the law governing it.

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On Tuesday they succeeded in presenting their petition to the Presidency.