A former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Kwaku Ansah-Asare, has provided insight into the implications of the newly passed Legal Education Bill, 2025, describing it as a major restructuring of legal education in Ghana.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story on Thursday, March 26, Mr Ansah-Asare said the most significant aspect of the legislation is the redistribution of responsibilities in the training and regulation of lawyers.

Parliament recently passed the Legal Education Bill, which is now awaiting presidential assent. The legislation marks a historic reform by ending the Ghana School of Law’s long-standing monopoly over professional legal training and opening the space to accredited universities across the country.

Under the new framework, a Council for Legal Education and Training will be established to regulate legal education and standardise curricula nationwide.

Accredited universities will be authorised to run the Law Practice Training Course, preparing law graduates to sit for a National Bar Examination.

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Explaining the significance of the reform, Mr Ansah-Asare noted that the law effectively separates the training of lawyers from the regulatory functions of the General Legal Council.

“I think the significance of the new law is the fact that it has divided the responsibilities of legal education or training of lawyers and taken some functions from the General Legal Council to the new Council for Legal Education,” he said.

He clarified that despite losing its central role in legal training, the General Legal Council will continue to perform key professional and regulatory duties within the legal system.

“The General Legal Council will continue to hold on to the call to the Bar. It will continue to function as the organ for discipline of lawyers, it will continue to issue solicitors’ licences, and it will continue to provide continuing professional legal education to lawyers as well as magistrates and judges,” he explained.

Mr Ansah-Asare further indicated that the Council would retain its statutory responsibility for recognising the Ghana Bar Association.