The Ghana School of Law is to set up campuses at the Law Faculties of the University of Ghana the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as part of efforts to expand facilities to accommodate the large number of students entering the school at Makola in Accra.

Students who would be admitted at Legon and KNUST would study professional law and, therefore, study the same subjects and write the same examination as those attending school at Makola.

The Director of the Ghana School of Law, Major (Rtd) George A. Sarpong, made this known at the third annual Lady Chief Justice’s Mentoring Programme in Accra last Thursday. He said last year, the school had to struggle with how to accommodate 450 students coming from Legon, KNUST and those that pursued their courses outside the country, explaining that the school could only accommodate 200.
He said the school, therefore, had to adopt a quota system of 80, 80 and 40 to accommodate the students. Six senior high school participated in the mentoring programme aimed at offering students of senior high schools the opportunity to interact with members of the Bench, Bar and the Judicial Service.

The schools, two from the Eastern Region and four from the Volta Region were: the Somanya Senior High School, Ghana Senior High School, Ola Girls Senior High School, Sogakope Senior High School, Mawuli Senior High School and Keta Senior High School.

This year’s event which is the third, involves students observing court proceedings at the Commercial Court, Fast Track Court, Land and Commercial Crimes Courts, Family and Juvenile Tribunals, as well as Gender Based Courts as well as a tour of the Judicial Service.

Major (Rtd) Sarpong told the students that it took a lot of hardwork and dedication to pursue the law profession.

Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana