A former Director of the Ghana Law School says many members of the Board of the Ghana Legal Council (GLC) have no idea about the curriculum development and the assessment of the modern law student.

Speaking on Joy FM Super Morning Show on Wednesday, Kwaku Ansa Asare said, "This body has existed since 1968. It has not seen any reform. The structure has been the same. Their commitment has been the same.

"They have no idea about curriculum development and even assessment of the modern law student. They don’t understand the financial autonomy of a law school. The manpower requirements of the nation are not their concern".

The discussion was focused on finding solutions to the yearly occurrence of a massive number of prospective law students being denied access to the School.

He stated that the Council does not understand and appreciate legal education, neither does it know anything regarding legal education.

"The GLC is not competent to administer such examinations. I say so because they seem to me to be an amorphous body composed of people from the Judiciary, the Ministry of Justice, the Dean of the University of Ghana Law School, and some professional and non-professional personnel".

He disclosed that the Council has always relied on the advice and recommendations of the Director of Legal Education over the years.

"It seems to me that for the past ten years, the Chairpersons of the General Legal Council have interfered with the running and organisation of the Ghana School of Law to the extent that now, the Director of Legal Education has virtually nothing whatsoever to do.

"In terms of examination, the sanctions and advisory role of the Director of Legal Education have been transferred to a so-called Independent Examinations Committee. Whoever the people are, I don’t know.

"Whether they are competent to be examiners, I can’t tell. Whether they are knowledgeable about examinations, I don’t know. Whether they are proficient in legal education, I can’t tell".

He stressed that the reformation of the structure of the GLC and the Independent Examinations Committee.

"As far as I’m concerned, the Ghana Legal Council should have been scrapped as soon as Ghana attained republican status".

The National Association of Law Students (NALS) disclosed in a press release that some law students failed their entrance examinations not because they did not pass but because there was an original intention to admit only 550 students.

The Association claims that 1,289 out of the 2,824 students who sat for the exams met the 50% pass mark yet, were excluded from the successful candidates.

“NALS regrets ascertaining thereto that contrary to the earlier results, some 1,289 out of the 2,824 candidates, representing 45.6%, obtained 50% aggregated score hitherto set as a pass mark.”

“Yet, there was a clear, very inexcusable exclusion of some 499 candidates, constituting 39% of candidates who obtained this 50% and 18% of all the candidates,” NALS alleged in a statement.

Finding solutions to this current crisis, Mr Ansa Asare suggested that a National Council for Legal Education be established.

He said that the Council should comprise of "people who are knowledgeable, who have the requisite expertise to engage and drive the engine of legal education.