A U.S based Ghanaian lecturer Prof Stephen Asare has petitioned the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo demanding that the Supreme Court Immediately hears a case against entrance examination at the Ghana School of law.
The court earlier in the week struck out an application for an injunction against the exam slated for July 27 describing it as defective.
Prof Asare has since filed a fresh case at the Supreme Court alleging the exam is not backed by law and wants the case to be heard immediately.
“We are asking that the examination scheduled for Joy 25, 2018 should be stopped because holding the examination will violate the court order of June 22 2017,” he stated.
He said they have appealed to the Chief Justice to give them a date on Monday and empanel a number of judges to sit on the case.
The Supreme Court last year ruled that law exams for prospective law students had no legal backing and could not be used to determine which student gains admission to pursue law.
That was because the Legislative Instrument (L.I) 1296 which was the foundation for admission processes into the law school did not make any provision at all for law exams.
The LI requires an applicant to have passed specific seven subjects during the LLB programme, be of good behavior and should hold an LLB degree in order to be considered for admission into the School.
However, the General Legal Council proceeded to Parliament to have LI 1296 amended under the Legal Profession Regulations 2017 which then makes room for an entrance exam.
But Prof Kwaku Asare is arguing the processes for the 2018 law entrance exams started before the Legal Profession Regulations 2017 was passed into law which makes the exam illegal, something the court has struck out.
But Kwaku Azar, as he is popularly called, believes the substantive case must be heard.
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