There has been growing concern over the rate of failing law students in Ghana.
Ghana’s General Legal Council (GLC) has set up a committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the mass failure of students at the Ghana School of Law.
More than 90% of the 727 students failed the recent bar exams, according to results released by the GLC’s exam committee.
The Ghana School of Law is the only institution accredited in the country to train professional law students. These developments are a great source of concern because the country only has about 3,000 lawyers for a population of nearly 30 million.
According to the results released by the Independent Examinations Committee of the General Legal Council, only 64 students passed in all the papers
Students who failed three or more papers will have to revisit all 10 subjects.
Some lecturers at the law school had threatened to resign over the mass failures and demanded that the results be reviewed.
The GLC said in a statement that it is committed to ensuring the integrity of the bar examination process.
The committee it has set up is expected to provide recommendations that will resolve the problem.
The students petitioned parliament earlier this year to review legal education in Ghana.
The Student’s Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law will send a formal written request to the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, March urging him to institute investigations into the mass failure in a recent examination the school conducted.
