The case concerning the 499 students who failed to get admission to the Ghana School of Law has been delayed by an Accra High Court.
The students are disputing the Law School’s refusal of admission on the grounds that they failed the entrance exams in the case Daniel Sackey & 142 others versus General Legal Council and Attorney General.
Patricia Ayirebi Acquah, Assistant State Attorney, told the Court on Friday, October 29, 2021, that the parties had agreed to a temporary adjournment and urged the Court to do so.
Though the students had already experienced irreparable harm, their lawyer stated that time was of the essence.
He did, however, ask the court to enable them to file supplementary responses after receiving the Attorney General’s and the General Legal Council’s reply.
The High Court’s Human Rights Court 2 Division, presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Abodakpi, will therefore reconvene on November 9 at 9 a.m. to hear the parties.
Some 499 candidates who were among those who failed the tests claimed that they would have been admitted to the Ghana School of Law had it not been for the GLC’s new policy.
Students are dissatisfied with the policy and have previously demonstrated in order to put pressure on the proper authorities to overhaul the legal education system.
The General Legal Council has been asked to release the raw scores of students who passed the Ghana School of Law entrance exams in 2020 and 2021.