Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, Ghana’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has introduced the Legal Education Bill, 2025, to Parliament, proposing significant reforms to the country’s legal education system.
Presented on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, the bill aims to dismantle the longstanding monopoly of the Ghana School of Law and its entrance examination, which Dr Ayine said has prevented even top graduates from joining the legal profession.
“What this bill does is to clear the bottleneck, which is that monopoly of Ghana School of Law and also the so-called entrance exam that made it virtually impossible for even students who graduated with First Class from very reputable universities to get into the Ghana School of Law,” he explained.
Dr Ayine added that an accreditation programme will be introduced to maintain quality standards, ensuring that only institutions meeting rigorous criteria can produce law graduates eligible to sit for the Bar exam.
He said,
“We are introducing an accreditation program that will make sure that it is not every mushroom LLB school that would produce lawyers who go on to write the Bar exam. There’ll be accreditations and quality control for those LLB candidates.
“Those candidates would have gone through a training that is either equivalent to or better than what I went through or the Majority Leader went through before becoming lawyers.”
The bill also proposes a new National Bar Examination, administered by the Council for Legal Education and its Bar Examination Committee, as the standardized pathway for entering the legal profession.
“We are also introducing the National Bar Exam so that those who go to law practice courses at universities can all write the exam. You know, that will be administered by the Council for Legal Education and its Bar Examination Committee,” Dr Ayine disclosed.
