The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, says the proposed Legal Education Bill, 2025, is aimed at overhauling Ghana’s legal training system by allowing accredited universities to take over professional legal education from the Ghana School of Law.

According to him, the reforms are designed to widen opportunities for prospective lawyers and dismantle long-standing barriers that have limited access to legal training over the years.

Under the bill, the existing entrance examination into professional law training would be scrapped and replaced with a National Bar Examination, creating what Dr. Ayine describes as a more equitable and inclusive route for qualified applicants seeking to enter the legal profession.

Contributing to parliamentary debate on the bill, the Attorney-General assured lawmakers that the proposed changes would not compromise standards. He stressed that strict accreditation and monitoring systems would be introduced to safeguard the quality of legal education and professional preparation.

Dr. Ayine explained that only institutions that meet clearly defined benchmarks would be permitted to train law graduates for the Bar, adding that the new framework would eliminate current bottlenecks while preventing unregulated institutions from producing candidates without the required depth of training.

He maintained that the accreditation regime would ensure graduates from approved universities receive education that meets, or exceeds, the standards required to successfully sit the National Bar Examination.