The young Anin-Yeboah who completed his bachelor's in law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 2015 tried to enter the Ghana Law School in 2016, 2017, and 2018 all to avail.
In one instance, MyNewsGh.com was told Justice Anin-Yeboah’s son fell short of the passing by only 7 marks.
After all the attempts to get his son into the Ghana Law school failed, Justice Anin-Yeboah reportedly doled out $10,000 to enable his son enrol at the Gambia Law School where he is currently studying.
This disclosure comes at a time retiring Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana, Justice Sophia Akuffo is on record to have said that as long as she supervised legal education in Ghana and the Judicial System, she will not allow the mass production of lawyers in the country.
According to her, the mass production of lawyers poses a great danger to the people of the country who would require the services of a good lawyer in their lifetime.
Reforms
Many backers of Justice Anin-Yeboah including academic and lead activists on law school reform Prof Kwaku Azar believe Justice Anin-Yeboah will steer the law fraternity away from madam Sophia Akuffo’s legacy.
Led by Prof Azar, the call for reforms has been ever loud.
The students of the Ghana Law School have demonstrated to draw the attention of the Chief Justice on the need to reform legal education which has largely been unheeded.
The aggrieved students, who were in red T-shirts carried placards with various inscriptions that suggested the need to open up the legal system in Ghana.
Some of the inscriptions included “Reform Legal Education Now”, “Publish Marking Scheme and Allow Remarking Now”, “Enough is Enough”, “Abolish the Makola Exam, Decentralise Legal Education”.
Nothing came out of their protest. Their new hope for reform is Chief Justice nominee Justice Anin-Yeboah whose son has been victimized by the same system.
No mass production of lawyers
Addressing the Bench, Bar, and Faculty Conference at the Labadi Beach Hotel in July this year covered by MyNewsGH.com, the Chief Justice who is now retiring said any attempt to allow the production of lawyers without efficient control, checks and balances will be rejected irrespective of who is advocating for it.
In her address, the Chief Justice first noted that “those of us who have been too long on the General Legal Council, those of us who spent too long on the disciplinary committee, we have course to worry because the kind of misconduct is such that there is no way anybody envisaged these categories of misconduct when the legal profession act was been enacted in 1960”.
Focusing on her concerns about legal education in Ghana, Justice Sophia Akuffo further states that “those of you lawyers and those of your lecturers who are busy advocating free scale, mass admissions, into the professional law course, and mass production of lawyers, be careful what you wish for”. She pointed out that “so long as I have anything to do with it, it won’t happen”. “Just like you can’t mass produce doctors and surgeons, Ghanaians must not have mass-produced lawyers imposed on them,” the Chief Justice said. Read Full Story
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