Parliament must step in to reform legal education

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• Apostle Mawuetornam Dugbazah 6 years ago

  Professor Asare:
  
  Thank you for another informative write up.
  
  Be sure to know that many are reading and seeing the inefficient conduct of the General Legal Council (GLC).
  
  Sincerely,
  Apostle Mawuetornam Dugbazah
  A ...
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  Professor Asare:
  
  Thank you for another informative write up.
  
  Be sure to know that many are reading and seeing the inefficient conduct of the General Legal Council (GLC).
  
  Sincerely,
  Apostle Mawuetornam Dugbazah
  African governments must phase out Western-style legal systems and institute aspects of indigenous customary law.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambrridge, UK 6 years ago

  Azar, I am not sure if parliament will have the guts to act on this matter as you have recommended. Let's hope against hope that they would.
  
  It was a constitutional anomaly or perhaps, anathema for a High Court to interpre ...
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  Azar, I am not sure if parliament will have the guts to act on this matter as you have recommended. Let's hope against hope that they would.
  
  It was a constitutional anomaly or perhaps, anathema for a High Court to interpret the words, "in the public interest" contained in the Supreme Court ruling to mean the unconstitutional act/s can continue for sometime and therefore the exams must go ahead.
  
  It is only in Ghana that the words "in the public interest" means in the interest of the minority. On the contrary, in the public interest means the interest of the majority must always prevail against the interest of the minority. Therefore, the judge was wrong to interpret the Supreme Court ruling to mean the minority interest (GLC and those LLB holders who were scheduled to take the exams) must prevail against the interest of the majority (all LLB holders who were unconstitutionally denied the right to attend the Law School and qualify as Barristers and the general public who stand to gain from the availability of more Barristers in Ghana in the future.
  
  I am glad you used the example of the night soil removal case to to explain why the High Court Judge was wrong to refuse the application by the concerned LLB holders. As I explained how "in the public interest" is applied, in the case of the night soil removal, had the ruling being applied immediately, the number of people who might have suffered a detriment were overwhelmingly in the majority compared to those to whose human dignity had been breached. Indeed, had the ruling become effective immediately, then the human dignity of many more Ghanaians, possible millions would have been breached because they would no longer have had access to toilets as there would be no one to carry the human excreta, there would have been more open defecation throughout Ghana and there would have been outbreak of diseases in Ghana. For these reasons, it was "in the public interest" of the majority (all Ghanaians) against the interest minority's dignity (night soil removal workers) to continue to be breached though unconstitutionally.
  
  Thursday was a sad day the constitutional jurisprudence in Ghana. I am not surprised because this is not the first time that rulings of the Supreme Court have been disregards by state actors. Ghana's missions abroad still advertise Dual Citizen Applications and the Dual Citizen Certificate on their website despite being ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in May 2012. Successive Attorney Generals, Foreign and Interior Ministers have all ignored the Supreme Court ruling and nothing has happened to them. That is Ghana and when it is pointed out to them, a minister says, we are whining.

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• Prof Lungu 6 years ago

  Professor S. Kwaku Asare,
  We want to commend you for your effort in this area.
  
  We know that a good legal education and ethically-bounded professional system is without doubt one of the major solutions to Ghana's develop ...
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  Professor S. Kwaku Asare,
  We want to commend you for your effort in this area.
  
  We know that a good legal education and ethically-bounded professional system is without doubt one of the major solutions to Ghana's development quagmire.
  
  Ghana needs more lawyers, and good ones at that.
  
  Peace!

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• Hhfdf 6 years ago

  LSAT is Constitutional.

  LSAT is Constitutional.

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