Applicants seeking admission into the Ghana Law school will no longer be required to undertake an examination and subsequent interview before being admitted, the Supreme Court has ruled.
According to the court, the requirements as preferred by the General Legal Council (GLC) contravenes Legislative Instrument 1296 which gives direction for the mode of admission.
This brings an end to the 2015 suit brought against the GLC by United States-based Ghanaian lawyer, Professor S. Kwaku Asare challenging the legality of the modes of admission used by the Ghana School of Law.
In his suit, Professor Asare prayed that the court declares the entrance examination and interview requirements for the Professional Law Course violates Articles ll (7) 297 (d) 23, 296 (a) (b) and 18 (2) of the 1992 Constitution.
He also prayed the court for an order directed at the GLC to specify within 60 days; alternative places and modes of instructions that would afford all persons meeting the requirement of Regulation 2 of Ll 1296 an opportunity to pursue the profession component of legal education, the completion of which entitles them to take the qualifying certificate examinations as determined by the GLC.
At its sitting on Thursday, the court granted heeded Professor Asare's prayer declaring the current mode of admission as unconstitutional.
Their order, however, will not take not take retrospective effect and should be implemented in six months time when admissions for the next academic year begins.
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