The Majority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has outlined the implementation timeline for Ghana’s new legal education reforms following the assent of the Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025.
Mr. Dafeamekpor said authorities are moving quickly to establish the new legal education council and appoint key officials to begin the accreditation process for institutions interested in training law students.
“We are looking at having the council quickly established, having the director general appointed quickly as well as the registrar because the core function of this council will be administered by these two statutory officers,” he said.
According to him, the Director-General and Registrar will be responsible for receiving accreditation applications from universities seeking approval to run law programmes.
“These officers are mandated to receive the accreditation applications from the universities that are interested in training the law students,” he stated.
Mr. Dafeamekpor explained that once the council is fully operational, the implementation of the reforms will move into full force.
“Once they set up then implementation can be fully blown,” he said.
He further disclosed that provisional licences under Section 26 of the law are expected to be issued by July to institutions seeking to begin admissions.
“We expect that things will be done quickly so that by July the provisional licences that captured under section 26 of the law will be issued for the institutions to begin to roll out admission programmes in August and by September the new academic year can begin,” he added.