Ghanaian law students write to Akufo-Addo

The leadership of students of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) has petitioned  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo seeking audience with him concerning the recent mass failure in the bar examination.

According to the students, the meeting with the president will afford them the opportunity to explain their position on the matter and demand reforms in Ghana’s legal education system.

This move comes on the back of a recent petition by the students to parliament over the same issue.

The students as well as their lecturers are unhappy about what has been described as the worst bar exam results recorded in the history of the school in which only nine per cent of the students passed.

The president of the Law Students Association, Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Amoah, toldAccra based  Class FM that there is the need for policy direction as far as Ghana’s legal education system is concerned.

“We believe that he’ll understand the issues better if we get the opportunity to explain things to him and make him understand why we believe that there’s the need to reform legal education”, Mr Amoah said.

Last week, students of the school marched to parliament to petition the Speaker, Prof Mike Oquaye, to investigate why only 64 out of about 500 students passed the last bar exam.

A total of 284 students who wrote the professional law examinations in 2018 failed and will have to repeat the programme.


177 have been referred in various papers including Evidence; and Advocacy and Family law.