A Ghanaian law professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, has described as unlawful, the regulation that mandates prospective law students to write entrance examination before their admission into the Ghana School of Law.
He said the Law Course Regulation 2012 which forms the basis for the Professional Law Course produced by the General Legal Council, neither been approved by parliament nor gazetted and thus of no legal effect.
"The so called Law Course Regulation 2012, which prescribes an entrance examination to the Ghana School of Law has not come into effect and has no legal value," he stated in a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon.
A holder of LLB cannot practice law in Ghana until he has obtained a Qualifying Certificate in Law from any of the three campuses of the Ghana School of Law.
But the US-based don said the orders, rules or regulations of the General Legal Council is only lawful when it is laid before and approved by Parliament and gazetted.
He said the Council has no power to give those seeking to get professional education just three days to relocate from Kumasi to Accra or vice versa, saying "we must fight arbitrariness not justify and glorify it!".
Prof. Asare criticized what he said, is the arbitrariness of the Council, adding that "all their actions must be rational, justifiable and not contravene the Constitution"
"They [the General Legal Council] act like Kings and people accept their illegalities. This is the "fa ma nyame" principle that has retarded our development." he added.
Prof. Asare has consistently criticized General Legal Council and the Ghana School of Law over its admission procedure which he has said is not fair and transparent beside the small number of student intake.
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