Constitutional Lawyer Prof Kwaku Asare’s application seeking for an interlocutory injunction on the impending Ghana School of Law entrance exams has been dismissed.
Prof Asare on Wednesday through his lawyer Kweku Bentil admitted to some irregularities to their affidavit in support.
This was after lawyers of the Attorney General’s Department and the General Legal Council had raised preliminary legal objection to the application.
The seven member panel chaired by Justice Jones Victor Dotse consequently struck out the application and granted him liberty to re-apply.
The Supreme Court last year ruled that it is unconstitutional for the General Legal Council to make it mandatory for LLB holders to write entry examinations as well as pass an interview before they are admitted to pursue their professional careers in law.
The seven-member panel of the apex court headed by Justice Dotse reached the unanimous decision in an application brought before it by the US based lawyer.
He was challenging the mode of admission of law students into the Ghana School of Law, the constitutionality of the General Legal Council’s imposition of new admission requirements for the professional course and also the constitutionality of the General Legal Council’s policy on reviewing examination scripts and quota admissions system.
Prof. Asare’s recent attempt to place an injunction on the impending Ghana School of Law exams was premised on the fact that the orders of the Supreme Court in that ruling was not fully complied with.
Circumstances surrounding legal education and admission into the Ghana school of Law have become topical after only 91 students out of the 474 who sat for the bar exams passed to be called to the bar. A total of 206 law students are to repeat the entire course whilst another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers.
Commenting on the development, Prof. Asare told Starr news that he will refile “the same documentation tomorrow [Thursday July 18, 2018] and I’ll sign instead of somebody saying he is signing for me.”
“We will come back tomorrow and if we come back tomorrow we are going to insist that there is a hearing,” he added.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
