Former Deputy Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine has said the General Legal Council must be blamed for the abysmal performance in the latest Bar exams written by law students.
There’s been several reactions after news broke that only 91 students out of the 474 who sat the exams passed to be called to the bar. A total of 206 law students are to repeat the entire course whilst another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers.
Currently Members of Parliament are lobbying to throw out the General Legal Council (GLC) Legislative Instrument that seeks to legalize entry exams to the law school.
Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chart, Dr Ayine who’s the Bolgatanga East MP, and also a Law Lecturer described the mass failure as shocking and backed calls for the Independent Examination Body to be scrapped.
“I was surprised, people are tending to blame the Council and rightly so, there’s a direct correlation between the quality of the trainers and the trained. If my students fail so badly I will have some introspection and ask myself whether I taught well.
“For instance we had smaller numbers at the Law Faculty, if students failed or were not performing well, I would take their script and sit down with them. What I used to do and I still teach a course at GIMPA, and I intend to do that this semester, I’ll take the best script and the worst script and type them out and anonymously give them out to the students to show in the answers for the best script and the worst script will also show them bad example.But then I’ll call the person who wrote the bad script into my office and find out what he or she did not grasp about the course or whether I was not communicating.”
Meanwhile, the Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law has called for a remarking of the papers of the bar examination that saw 81% of students failing.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, President of the student lawyers, Sammy Gyamfi, told the media and his colleagues, who were clad in red, that he and his executives will ensure that the Independent Examination Body which conducts examination for the School of law is scrapped.
