President John Dramani Mahama has signed the Legal Education Reform Bill (2025) into law, dismantling the Ghana School of Law’s exclusive hold on professional legal training after 66 years.
The new law allows accredited universities to offer professional law courses, a move aimed at expanding access while maintaining quality.
“Regulate legal education… but also open up space for more opportunities,” the President said on Monday.
Hundreds of qualified law graduates have been turned away annually under the old system.
Under the new legislation, eligible universities meeting regulatory standards can now run Bar-entry programmes, effectively ending the decades-long bottleneck.
