Parliament passes Legal Education Bill

Parliament has passed the Legal Education Bill, 2025, paving the way for significant reforms in the country’s legal education system.

The Bill establishes a Council for Legal Education and Training, which will be responsible for regulating legal education and setting curriculum standards across institutions.

A key provision of the legislation is the shift of the professional legal education and training programme from the Ghana School of Law to accredited universities.

Under the new framework, a Law Practice Training Course will be introduced and offered by approved universities to prepare eligible candidates for a National Bar Examination.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, noted that the passage of the Bill fulfils the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s commitment to promoting equity, fairness, and improved access to legal education in Ghana.

“As has been typical of the NDC, promises made are delivered. We promised law students that if they vote for us, we will carry out reforms that will ensure equity, fairness and access to legal education,” he said

However, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin took a swipe at the NDC government, accusing it of failing to deliver on some of its key campaign promises. He argued that while the reform of legal education is important, the government must also demonstrate commitment to other critical pledges made to Ghanaians.

“All of us have participated. This is not a bill that is identified with a particular party. I concede that indeed they made it a campaign promise. Mr Speaker, however, they equally promised that they were going to set up a bank for women. We are done with year one, year two, we have not seen the Women Bank,” he said.