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MP for Manhyia, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has proposed that the Ghana Law School be made to operate two streams of the same class so that they could clear the back-log of students who are yet to be admitted.

He suggested that the faculties of law at KNUST and the University of Ghana should be equipped to run the part I program on the two campuses, with the part II programme sent to the Law School at Makola.

Making his statement on the floor of parliament about the bottleneck in admissions at the Law school yesterday, the MP said by the proposed arrangement he had suggested, the law school will have more room to accommodate the part II students because they would be the only people on the campus.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh proposed that the law school should be encouraged and supported to decentralize and extend their campuses to Kumasi, Cape Coast and University of Development Studies.

He told members that the decision they make today in the investment of the future of the children will form part of the basic foundation of this country.

The Deputy Attorney General, Hon. Barton- Oduro, said although the concerns are legitimate, the General Legal Council and the law school are up to the task because there is a program on course which would have a campus of the law school on the UG and KNUST campuses to take care of the back-log of students.

He said, looking at the peculiar nature of the training of lawyers, the government must begin to think of the way forward for law education in the country.

Source: Linda Akrasi Kotey -

Ghanaian Chronicle