Chairperson of the People’s National Party (PNP), Janet Nabla, has criticised the government’s legal education reforms, warning that the changes could weaken the standards and prestige of the profession.

Speaking on Joy Prime on May 12, 2026, she expressed worry over plans to broaden access to the legal education.

Janet Nabla argued that the move risk “destroying” a profession that has earned public respect over decades.

According to her, the reforms could reduce the value attached to legal training and open the system to abuse.

Nabla further noted that after observing the direction of the reforms, she may advise her son against pursuing law.

“When I go home, I am going to change [his choice], because I’ve seen that what the NDC government is planning to do is to destroy the law profession and open a Pandora’s box,” she said.

Janet Nabla criticised attempts to decentralise legal education and open professional legal training to private institutions, insisting that the existing structure had maintained standards for decades.

“They think that writing exams is difficult. So, let’s open it up to private people. You know how the private sector does its things. Let’s open it up to everyone and make sure that this profession people have been respecting all this while, we just turn it into anything.

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“For 66 years, the Ghana School of Law has been an important place whereby when you complete, look at the euphoria? It took a single government to come out to destroy everything that has been built over the years,” she fumed.

Her comments come in the wake of President John Dramani Mahama's assent to the Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025, marking a turning point in Ghana’s legal education system and bringing an end to the Ghana School of Law’s 66-year monopoly on professional legal training in the country.

The legislation is expected to expand access to professional legal education by allowing accredited universities and institutions to offer professional law courses, a responsibility that had for decades been reserved exclusively for the Ghana School of Law.

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