The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has explained how Ghana plans to roll out its new legal education reforms after the passage of the Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025.
While speaking on Wednesday, May 13, he said that authorities are moving fast to set up the new legal education council.
Mr. Dafeamekpor noted that officials will soon appoint a Director-General and a Registrar to manage the council’s daily operations and oversee the accreditation process for universities that want to offer law programmes.
“We are looking at having the council quickly established, having the director general appointed quickly as well as the registrar because the core function of this council will be administered by these two statutory officers,” he said.
He explained that these officials will handle applications from universities seeking approval to train law students.
“These officers are mandated to receive the accreditation applications from the universities that are interested in training the law students,” he stated.
According to him, once the council becomes fully functional, the reforms will move into full implementation without delay.
“Once they set up then implementation can be fully blown,” he said.
Mr. Dafeamekpor added that the government expects to issue provisional licences by July under Section 26 of the new law.
He said universities that receive approval will begin admissions in August, paving the way for a new academic year to start in September.
“We expect that things will be done quickly so that by July the provisional licences that captured under section 26 of the law will be issued for the institutions to begin to roll out admission programmes in August and by September the new academic year can begin,” he added.
