{"id":442924,"date":"2017-12-02T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/kwaku-asare-jabs-general-legal-council\/"},"modified":"2017-12-02T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:41:07","slug":"kwaku-asare-jabs-general-legal-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/kwaku-asare-jabs-general-legal-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwaku Asare jabs General Legal Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  2 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>dailyguideafrica.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/41785700.295.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Kwaku Asarefree\" title=\"Professor Kwaku Asarefree\" width=\"295\" height=\"188\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512178867_729_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The lawyer who has been challenging the General Legal Council (GLC) over the conducting of entrance examination before lawyers are admitted into the Ghana School of Law, has criticized the attempt by the council to get parliament to pass a law entitled Legal Profession Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Stphen Kwaku Asare popularly called Kwaku Azar, who is mostly based in the United States, described the Legal Profession (Professional and Post-Call Law Course) Regulations, 2017) as \u201cnothing but a sham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Last-Ditch Effort<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said it was a \u2018last-ditch\u2019 effort by \u2018an out-of-touch\u2019 General Legal Council (GLC) to legalize three important things he called \u201ca quota system, a fatally flawed entrance examination and a subjective interview requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a letter urging parliament not to accept the proposal, the lawyer said legal education stands to benefit if the GLC is thrown out by the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed Regulation seeks to dismantle the objective, incorruptible, progressive and automatic admission requirements and replace them with subjective, corruptible, regressive and opaque requirements that entrench the GLC\u2019s power and augur ill for legal education in the country,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kwaku Asare said, \u201cGiven the acrimony, confusion and ultimately the Supreme Court\u2019s repudiation of these abhorrent admission policies, one would have expected the GLC to activate a broad consultation process to seek a way forward that is progressive and reflective of the underlying increase in the population of people interested in legal education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Unrepentant GLC<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAlas, the unrepentant GLC has doubled down on its sins and secretly drafted a fatally flawed and self-aggrandizing Regulation in the hope that it could be laid quietly in Parliament to mature into law in 21 days. Clearly, like the bourbons of yore, the GLC learnt nothing and forgot nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Asare charged, \u201cThe time is ripe for Parliament and all relevant stakeholders to concede that the School of Law, as conceived in 1958, where all LLB degree holders converge to a central location (or locations) to pursue professional courses, is an obsolete concept,\u201d insisting that \u201cIt is a 1958 solution to offering legal education to 10 law students in a newly emerged independent country, with 1 Law Faculty, that is entirely anachronistic in a matured country with 10 Law Faculties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s world of distance learning and assorted electronic learning platforms, it is entirely unnecessary for students to converge at a centralized location or any central locations to study evidence, procedure, taxation, legal accountancy, interpretation, alternative dispute resolutions, conveyancing, family, company, labour, banking and insurance laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Comparative Advantage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Prof. Kwaku Asare, the Ghana School of Law \u201chas no comparative advantage\u201d in teaching such courses, \u201cnor are these courses so unique that they cannot be taught at the 10 Law Faculties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe obvious solution therefore is to require law students to take all courses at their Law Faculties after which they can apply to take the Bar examination, administered by a reconstituted GLC, made up of fair-minded people,\u201d he proposed and added,p; \u201cIt is time to collapse the faux and unnecessary distinction between the academic and professional law courses. It is also time to restructure the moribund GLC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Unruly Council<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the lecturer, \u201cNo self-respecting Parliament will allow the unruly GLC to legalize and normalize its atrocious admission policies that have occasioned uncommon inconvenience, needless hardship and miscarried justice for thousands of qualified citizens. The Sierra Leone Parliament, faced with a similar set of circumstances, sided with justice and their constituents to reject a similarly fraudulent regulation. We expect no less from our 275 MPs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He posited,\u201cThe Regulation also seeks to impose additional and unnecessary burdens on Ghanaian lawyers trained in other common law jurisdictions with the primary, if not the sole, purpose of preventing them from practising in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cThere is no reason why these lawyers must be required to attend classes for one year when they can be allowed to demonstrate their proficiency by writing an examination. In addition, these lawyers cannot be converted into cash cows by charging them exorbitant and extortionary entry fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Return To Sender<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kwaku Asare maintained that the Legal Profession (Professional and Post-Call Law Course) Regulations, 2017 \u201cis dead at birth and must be returned to sender,\u201d adding, \u201cParliament must not go to sleep and allow the proposed Regulation to ripen into law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for Parliament to amend the Legal Profession Act 32 (1960) to dissolve the GLC as currently constituted and to create a 21st century Council for Legal Education that is responsible for accrediting Law Faculties, administering Bar examinations, and setting and enforcing ethical and quality control standards for qualification and practice as a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 2 December 2017 Source: dailyguideafrica.com 2017-12-02 Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare The lawyer who has been challenging the General Legal Council (GLC) over the conducting of entrance examination before lawyers are admitted into the Ghana School of Law, has criticized the attempt by the council to get parliament to pass a law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":442925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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