A total of 19 accredited law faculties in Ghana are positioned to lead the nation’s legal education transition following an interim directive from the General Legal Council.
Granted authority to run both the standard Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and the newly introduced pre-bar programs, these institutions will absorb the training responsibilities until the new Council for Legal Education and Training (CLET) becomes fully operational.
This mandate empowers the faculties to directly address the historic institutional bottleneck that previously stranded thousands of LLB graduates outside the professional training pipeline.
By dismantling the traditional entrance examination framework, the faculties can now admit both current graduates and the extensive student backlog into a structured, one-year Pre-Bar Course commencing in August or September 2026.
The foundational course will allow the 19 schools to independently deliver, or co-deliver alongside the Ghana School of Law, critical theoretical subjects like Company Law, Commercial Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
A statement issued by Prof. Raymond Atuguba the Director of the Ghana School of Law stated that “These Interim Policy Directives are intended to ensure an orderly and effective transition to the new legal education regime, especially for students graduating with an LLB this year, while simultaneously addressing the long-standing backlog of LLB graduates in Ghana.
I will appreciate the immediate dissemination of these directives to your various stakeholders, including students; alumni; university, faculty, and departmental authorities; and continuous monitoring of compliance,” he added.
According to the statement, “admissions shall be determined by the respective institutions in accordance with their internal academic rules, admission policies, capacity considerations, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Backlog students admitted under this arrangement will undertake the balance of required foundational theoretical courses before progressing to take the practical requirements of the LPT Programme, in accordance with the new legal education framework. The courses are the same as those listed above for students graduating with an LLB this year.”
The schools are:
- Accra Metropolitan University, School of Law
- Ashesi University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Central University, Faculty of Law
- Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Faculty of Law
- Greenfield College, Faculty of Law
- KAAF University College, Faculty of Law
- Kings University College, Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Faculty of Law
- Lancaster University, Faculty of Law
- Mountcrest University, Faculty of Law
- Pentecost University, Faculty of Law
- Presbyterian University, Faculty of Law
- University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS), Faculty of Law
- University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Law
- University for Development Studies (UDS), Faculty of Law
- University of Ghana, School of Law
- University of Professional Studies (UPSA), School of Law
- Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, Faculty of Law
- Zenith University College, Ghana, Faculty of Law
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
