The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has clarified that the proposed Legal Education Bill, 2025, seeks to transfer professional legal training from the Ghana School of Law to universities accredited to offer the program.
He noted that the bill will also replace the existing entrance examination with a national bar examination.
During his presentation to Parliament on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026, the minister stated that the bill aims to eliminate the bottlenecks resulting from the monopoly held by the Ghana School of Law and the entrance exams, which previously denied even high-achieving students with an LLB from accredited institutions admission to the law school.
Dr. Ayine further explained that the bill includes provisions to ensure that accredited universities offering law practice training adhere to quality standards.
“What this bill does is to clear the bottleneck which is the monopoly of the Ghana School of Law and also the so-called entrance exams that made it virtually impossible for even students who graduated with first class degrees from very reputable universities to get into the Ghana School of Law.
So Mr Speaker, the innovations introduced by this bill are very clear for everyone to see. We are introducing an accreditation programme that will make sure it is not every mushroom LLB school that will produce lawyers that will go on to write the bar exams. There would be accreditation and quality control to ensure that if there is any university producing LLB candidates, those candidates would have gone through a training that is either equivalent to or better than what I went through or what the Majority Leader went through before being lawyers.”
He further stated that the bill will also introduce a National Bar Exam, enabling individuals who complete the law practice training course at accredited universities to sit for the standardised examination, which will be administered by the Council for Legal Education and its Bar Examination Committee.
By: Rashid Obodai Provencal/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
