{"id":718793,"date":"2019-10-08T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/08\/law-students-demonstrate-over-mass-failures\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:32:37","slug":"law-students-demonstrate-over-mass-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/08\/law-students-demonstrate-over-mass-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Students Demonstrate Over Mass Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Some of the students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Bachelor of Law (LLB) graduates and students of the Ghana School of Law have taken to the streets to protest against what they term as \u2018mass failure of students who take the entrance exams to the law school annually\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nstudents are demanding, among other things, a total scrap of the entrance<br \/>\nexamination of the law school, and the abolishment of a \u2018Repeat Policy\u2019 at the<br \/>\nSchool of Law to allow for students to resit any examinations that they fail.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nprotest, which began in the early hours of yesterday, started on the premises<br \/>\nof the law school at Makola, Accra, to the Law Court complex. <\/p>\n<p>They<br \/>\nthen took a turn at the Accra Divisional Police Headquarters to the ministries<br \/>\narea where they presented a petition to the Attorney General\u2019s Department before<br \/>\nmoving to the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nstudents made stops at some strategic locations such as the Ghana Bar<br \/>\nAssociation offices at Ridge to seek audience with members of the<br \/>\nassociation.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>At the Jubilee House, the protesters were<br \/>\nresisted by the police from converging on the forecourt of the Presidential<br \/>\nPalace. According to the police, the protesters did not have the permission to<br \/>\nconverge on the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mass Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been mass failure by students who sit<br \/>\nfor the entrance exams to the Ghana Law School annually. <\/p>\n<p>This year, only 128 out of 1,820 LLB graduates<br \/>\nwho sat for the exams passed to get admission to pursue the professional law<br \/>\ncourse.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in 2017 declared as unconstitutional<br \/>\nthe entrance examination and interview session used in admitting students for<br \/>\nthe two-year professional law course.<\/p>\n<p>These requirements, the court held, were in violation of the Legislative<br \/>\nInstrument 1296 which gives direction for the mode of admission into the only<br \/>\nschool offering professional law course in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, who chairs the General Legal Council, has insisted that the existing systems and structures for the training of lawyers in the country would not be changed despite the public outcry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Nana Kwasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the students Some Bachelor of Law (LLB) graduates and students of the Ghana School of Law have taken to the streets to protest against what they term as \u2018mass failure of students who take the entrance exams to the law school annually\u2019. 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