General News of Thursday, 4 April 2019Source: ghanaiantimes.com.ghParliament directs Legal Council to reduce remarking fee to GHC500Ben Abdallah BandaParliament has directed the General Legal Council (GLC) to reconsider the circumstances under which 461 law students either failed or were referred to in the 2017/2018 New Professional Law Course Examination. The five-point recommendation contained in the report of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs presented to the Plenary of the House yesterday wants the remarking fee reduced from GH¢3000 to GH¢500. Of the 525 Professional Law Students who sat for the examination, only 64 of them representing 12.2 passed, leaving 284, representing 54.1 per cent and 177 representing 33.7 as having failed and referred in their courses respectively. Prior to the introduction of the New Professional Law Course which started in 2016, “the average performance of students……stood around 70 per cent but that has reduced sharply under the new professional law course to about 15 per cent” the report noted. He said to address the anomaly, the committee had planned to engage all stakeholders in legal education to consider the Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which is currently before the Committee.

Source: GhanaWeb April 04, 2019 04:52 UTC