The Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, has stated that the passage of the Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025, was bipartisan.
His comments follow President John Dramani Mahama’s signing of the Legal Education Reform Bill into law on Monday, May 11, marking what many have described as a historic turning point in Ghana’s legal education system and ending the Ghana School of Law’s 66-year monopoly on professional legal training.
Speaking in an interview with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV’s The Point of View on Wednesday, May 13, Nana Baffour Awuah stated that the Minority actively contributed inputs during deliberations leading to the passage of the Bill.
“At the committee level, we did a lot of work. What you see today [May 13] is the outcome of a lot of inputs from members of the Minority on the Committee. The Minority made a lot of inputs into the composition of the Council, National Examination Board, etc. Subsequently, there were a lot of inputs from the Minority as well on the floor of the House. So, this is largely a bipartisan effort,” he said.
The landmark legislation is expected to expand access to professional legal education by allowing accredited universities and institutions to offer professional law courses — a responsibility that had, for decades, been reserved exclusively for the Ghana School of Law.
For years, concerns have been raised about the restrictive nature of professional legal education in Ghana, particularly the bottlenecks associated with admissions into the Ghana School of Law.
Thousands of qualified LLB graduates across the country have often been unable to continue their legal training due to limited spaces and the highly competitive entrance examination system.
