This according to him is to make-up for the supply deficit in the public sector.
While applauding plans by the General Legal Council to expand the Ghana School of Law, he urged the Council to ensure standards in the training of lawyers.
Despite making a case for the more production of lawyers, while speaking to Citi News at the call to BAR of some 305 newly trained lawyers on Friday, Oppong Nkrumah said the standards of the profession must be maintained.
“I am one of those who believe that without compromising the standards, we need a lot more lawyers and so we need to find some middle ground that allows a lot more people to get access and to have an opportunity to study because we need a lot more practitioners in the system particularly in the public services for example. The Ministries, Departments and Agencies should get to that level where we have a lot of in-house counsel but that all means that very generally we need a lot more both in the public and private sector,” he said. Read Full Story
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