General Legal Council To Shut Down Some Institutions Awarding LLB Degrees - Chief Justice | Education

Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has revealed that the General Legal Council (GLC) would within the coming days limit some establishments from awarding Bachelor of Laws (LLB) program to college students.

Speaking on the 2022 name to the Bar ceremony in Accra, the Chief Justice stated the GLC would reap the benefits of the powers given to it by Parliament underneath Act 32 to purge establishments with insufficient sources providing LLB to college students.

This, he stated, would enhance and maintain the requirements of the authorized occupation.

“In a move to uphold the sanctity and standards of the legal profession, the General Legal Council with the powers conferred on it by Parliament would be compelled to withdraw the recognition of some faculties which offer LLB programs, but which lack the requisite faculties, lecturers , structures or libraries,” Justice Anin-Yeboah stated in his tackle.

According to him, the transfer was not a calculated try and punish some establishments, moderately, to rid of substandard authorized practitioners within the nation.

He talked about {that a} survey carried out by the GLC confirmed that some establishments providing LLB had been extremely under-resourced and unqualified to supply the programme.

He stated, “there is nothing punitive about this move. It is a precautionary measure to tackle any semblance of mediocrity from the roots and not from the branches.”

At the just-ended 59th anniversary of the enrollment of legal professionals to the Ghana Bar Association organized on Friday, November 11, 2022 on the Accra International Conference Centre, a complete of 785 legal professionals had been referred to as to the Bar.