Parliament to GLC: Admit 499 aggrieved law students
Parliament on Friday (29 October) passed a resolution to compel the General Legal Council (GLC) to admit all the 499 aggrieved law students who obtained at least 50% in the entrance exams but had been denied admission to the Ghana School of Law.
The resolution received bi-partisan support after deputy majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin and deputy minority leader James Avedzi made a case for the resolution to be passed.
The resolution also compels the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to see to it that the GLC enforces the resolution.
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On Friday, an Accra High Court presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Abodakpi adjourned sitting to 9 November 2021 in the case involving the 499 students.
The students are in court to challenge the decision of the General Legal Council.
Assistant state attorney, Patricia Ayirebe Acquah, prayed the High Court to adjourn the case to allow the attorney general’s department to respond to the claims of the applicants since the Genera Legal Council (GLC) only filed their defense Friday.
The lawyer for the applicants, Martin Kpebu, had no objection.
The 499 aggrieved students are accusing the GLC for their inability to gain admission following a new quota system introduced after the law school entrance examination had taken place and the results had been released.
The new requirements is that candidates had to score at least 50% in both sections of law school entrance exams to be eligible for entry into the Ghana School of Law. According to the affected students, the new rule was unknown to them before, during and after the exams.
