Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chancellor of the University of Ghana, has called for a review of the country’s legal education system.
Mary Chinery-Hesse explained that the need to revisit the Legal Professions Act (Act 32) is to reflect modern-day demands.
“Since the Legal Professions Act was passed 62 years ago, the world has changed exponentially, and there is an urgent need for its revision to reflect these changes and make the training of lawyers in Ghana more relevant and in tune with the world we live in today.”
“I would like to reiterate the importance of balancing the training of the large number of lawyers required in the country with the quality of education provided, as well as the provision of human and material resources by the institutions that train our lawyers,” she said at the school of law’s graduation ceremony.
In the past, critics of the legal education regime have called for reforms to improve access to the School of Law.
Three Members of Parliament worked on a private member’s bill last year to address issues with legal education in Ghana.
The MPs wanted to fill gaps in the current legal and regulatory framework by ensuring that critical aspects of legal education are either partially or entirely regulated.
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In their bill, the MPs also advocated for the separation of legal education administration and regulation from the legal profession.
About Mary Chinery-Hesse
Mary Chinery-Hesse, FAAS, OSG, née Blay, is an international civil servant and diplomat who is the University of Ghana’s first female Chancellor.
She was the International Labour Organization’s first female Deputy Director-General and further worked as an advisor to Ghana’s former President, John Agyekum Kufour.
Mary Chinery-Hesse served on several boards including those at the Centre for Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
She was also a Commissioner at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission and at the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.
Appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Ghana. she assumed this position on 1 August 2018, and succeeded Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General.
Source: Cititv
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