Inherited legal education system not fit for purpose - Ansa-Asare
Kwaku Ansa-Asare said that the country's inherited legal education system is no longer fit for purpose and risks undermining the country's justice delivery if it is not overhauled. Mr. Ansa-Asare, who is also a former Director of Legal Education, said, "We inherited a model we did not understand and which had no socio-economic relevance to our circumstances." He was speaking at a public lecture organised by MountCrest University College in Accra last Wednesday, on the theme: "Ghana's Inherited Legal Profession: Legal Education at the Crossroads".
Mr. Ansa-Asare said that the current arrangement continued to limit progression for many qualified law graduates, with bottlenecks in the transition from academic training to professional qualification. He also said the politicisation of the legal profession had affected the direction of legal education and reform efforts. He explained that universities focused on academic and theoretical foundations, while the professional school concentrated on procedural training, creating a gap between knowledge and practice. He called for a stronger emphasis on clinical legal education to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
The Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, Professor Carl Stychin, shared the United Kingdom's experience, where reforms in legal education had produced both gains and challenges. Prof. Stychin said, "Our LLB degree was growing exponentially. Bigger and bigger numbers of students, but only a small number would ever join the profession."
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Kwaku Ansa-Asare, a legal expert, believes Ghana's inherited legal education system is outdated. He suggests that the current system risks undermining justice delivery- but what changes are needed to bring it up to par?
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