{"id":466996,"date":"2018-02-23T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/parliament-to-meet-attorney-general-glc-over-law-school-brouhaha\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T19:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:51:33","slug":"parliament-to-meet-attorney-general-glc-over-law-school-brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/parliament-to-meet-attorney-general-glc-over-law-school-brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament to meet Attorney-General, GLC over Law School brouhaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 23 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/79810655.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana Law School   \" title=\"Ghana Law School   \" width=\"295\" height=\"156\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo<\/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\/2018\/02\/1519415493_177_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Parliament&#8217;s Subsidiary Legislation Committee is set to meet with the Attorney-General and the General Legal Council (GLC) in a bid to find a solution to the problems surrounding legal education in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting slated for next Tuesday, follows a petition submitted to the Committee by students of the Ghana School of Law, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The students are demanding a total overhaul of how legal education is conducted after it emerged more than 80 percent of students who sat for last year&#8217;s Bar exams failed.<\/p>\n<p>The students are also asking Parliament to set aside the Legislative Instrument (L.I) seeking to regulate admissions into the Law School.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Legislation Committee, Mahama Shaibu told Joy News Friday the petitions should push for a dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shaibu believes \u201cthe AG is a listening person\u201d and it is time she sat at the negotiation table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the entire nation thinks we should have a national dialogue on this\u2026so let us not wish away what the people of Ghana are saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Asawase and Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, believes the L.I. will not pass.<\/p>\n<p>He said he and a fellow legislator, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, are mobilising support to trash the L.I.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Afenyo Markin and I are working on something that will bring up interest\u2026so that at the time the report is laid before the House, we will have the two-thirds majority to throw it out,\u201d Mr Mubarak said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that: \u201c\u2026it looks like we will get the majority of those who do not belong to my party [National Democratic Congress]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IoC-hxUX60\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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