The Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law Faculty, Professor Ebow Bondzi-Simpson has joined calls for reform of professional legal education in the country.

In lamenting about the entry requirements into the Ghana School of Law, he said it is not satisfactory and unsustainable.

“Entry from our various law schools to the Ghana Law school has become practically difficult with about a third only of the existing cohorts entering,” Prof Bondzi-Simpson said in his address to the 2019 Graduating Law Class at GIMPA.

The entry requirements and the pass rate in the Bar examinations have raised serious concerns with the country’s current mode of training lawyers.

There have been calls for an overhaul of the legal education system to address concerns that have to do with not only the entry requirements but also the handling of examinations in the school.

Agitations from the Students Representative Council of the School prompted the setting up of a Committee by the General Legal Council to probe mass exams failure at the Ghana School of Law and oversee reforms at the School.

The committee has made a call for input from the public as it carries out its mandate.

Professor Bondzi-Simpson noted that the current system frustrates students and called for it to be changed.

“Ghana through the last decade or so has created much iniquity and frustration on our law students with the structure of legal education.”

“The number of persons required to service our legal sector is way in excess of the capacity of the Ghana school of law with its satellite campuses. If the Ghana school of law is not presently able to handle the numbers, the Ghana Legal Council can partner with and accredit some law schools to offer the delivery of professional legal education,” he suggested.