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Ghana School of Law

Educational institution for training lawyers in Ghana

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Educational institution for training lawyers in Ghana

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The Ghana School of Law (GSL) is an educational institution in Ghana for training lawyers. The school is the only institution responsible for training for law graduates in the Professional Law Course (PLC) programme and the Post-Call Law Course.

The PLC programme is designed for law graduates who have obtained an LL.B degree or its equivalence and have passed the entrance examination into the Ghana School of Law. The Post-Call Law Course on the other hand is designed for Ghanaians or non-Ghanaians who have qualified in common law jurisdictions outside Ghana, which operate a legal system analogous to that of Ghana. On completion of either courses, the graduate is qualified to practice law in Ghana. Prior to the establishment of the Ghana School of Law in 1958, all lawyers in Ghana were trained abroad, almost always at the Inns of Court in England.{{cite web |url = http://ghanabar.org/about-us/training-ghanaian-lawyers.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111003224756/http://ghanabar.org/about-us/training-ghanaian-lawyers.html |archive-date = 2011-10-03}}

By convention, all lawyers admitted to practice in Ghana become automatic members of the Ghana Bar Association.{{cite web

History of the Ghana School of Law

After Ghana attained independence in 1957, the development of legal education was discussed after which the legal practitioner's Act, of 1958 was enacted, which gave birth to General Legal Council. The council was charged with the responsibility of organizing legal education in Ghana. The first African Chief Justice of Ghana Sir Kobina Arku Korsah, appointed Professor J. H. A. Lang as the first Director of Legal Education to ensure the administration and supervision of Legal Education and also the establishment of some courses on instruction. The main campus of the Ghana School of Law is at Makola in Accra. Other satellite campuses were also subsequently established at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, GIMPA campus near Legon, and UPSA. The Kumasi campus of the GSL was officially inaugurated in November 2010 by Her Ladyship Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Woode, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana at the time.

References

(1 March 2022). "Yaw Oppong appointed Director of Ghana School of Law".
"PROGRAMMES".
"Programmes - Overview". Ghana School of Law.
''Ghana School of Law Journal'' 1991.
"Ghana School of Law opens Second Campus in Kumasi". Ghana Broadcasting Company.
"Ghana Law School Campus Opens at GIMPA as Greenhill-Legon Campus". GIMPA.

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