Law students left frustrated as court registry forgets to find judge to hear case
A group of law students who have sued the Attorney-General over the controversial law exams left the Accra High Court disappointed after the court’s registry failed to bring the case to the attention of a judge.
The students who sat the July 2019 entrance exams arrived at the court as early as 8am on Friday for the scheduled hearing.
But they were told the application was not traceable.
“After consulting the registry, we were informed the case was not in the system, ” a source told TheGhanaReport.com.
In their quest to find answers, “the clerk admitted knowledge of the case which was filed on December 12, 2019, but informed the applicants that the case file had not been brought to the court because the court registry had forgotten to scan the application and assign a judge to it. ”
The students demanded the anomaly be corrected in order for proceedings to start.
The clerk, who admitted the anomaly initiated the process of assigning the case.
Based on new development, the case has been adjourned till January 2020.
Background
The case between the National Association of Law Students and the Attorney-General including the Ghana Legal Council(GLC) was scheduled to be heard in Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court earlier today.
The law students are suing the Attorney-General and the GLC for years of mass failure at the Ghana Law School entrance exam.
The law students after a series of protests, in September, expressed their reservations about the legal education system in the country.
The students are asking the court to declare a number of actions of the Ghana Law School to be unlawful.
- A declaration that the undertaking imposed by the General Legal Council (GLC) on the Applicants to accept without question its decision in respect of the published results of the examination organized on 26 July, 2019 as final is arbitrary, unlawful and void.
- A declaration that the failure, refusal or neglect of the GLC to publish a procedure for remarking the examination papers of the Applicants is arbitrary, unlawful and void.
- An order directed at the GLC to publish the procedure for remarking the exam papers of the Applicants within 7 days