Also known as: GLC
General Legal Council — body that approved UBIDS School of Law for pre-bar courses and has had functions decoupled under the 2026 Legal Education Act, being dissolved to establish a new Council for Legal Education and Training.
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The Chronicle
… He said the Legal Profession (Practitioners Standards Board) Bill would remove disciplinary responsibility for lawyers from the General Legal Council and place it under a new arrangement involving the Bar. …
GBA challenges Judiciary, Executive on constitutional limitsJoy Online
… Overhauling the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) is not merely desirable; it is essential for upholding due process and restoring public confidence in the administration of justice. …
THE LAW 101: Overhauling Lawyer Discipline – Why the Practitioners Standards Board Bill is long overdueJoy Online
… This question acquired practical significance in January 2026 when the General Legal Council (GLC) accredited the LSG to facilitate the issuance of practising, chamber and pupillage licences. …
The Battle For The Soul of the Ghanaian BAR: Is it a freedom of association or regulatory anarchy?Joy Online
… He explained that lawyers and law firms are separately licensed, with lawyers licensed by the General Legal Council (GLC) to practise while law firms are also separately licensed. …
GBA has no business responding to law firms’ petitions – DafeamekporJoy Online
… Access controls and audit logs are built in from the start, which matters as firms across the country bring their record-keeping in line with the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) and the standards of the General Legal Council. …
How The BriefCase, powered by Auris, turns an institution’s own records into its most valuable employeeDaily Guide
… Under the new law, universities accredited by the General Legal Council will be permitted to provide the one-year Bar Practice Programme to prepare LLB graduates for a standardised national Bar examination before they are called to the Bar. …
Speaker Endorses UBIDS’ Bid To Train LawyersJoy Online
The University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS) School of Law has been approved by the General Legal Council (GLC) to run the one-year pre-bar course under Ghana’s legal education reforms. …
UBIDS School of Law among 19 schools to run one-year pre-bar courseJoy Online
… e 42 LLB graduates from the maiden batch who sat the Ghana School of Law entrance examination, 28 passed. “This represents almost 70 per cent who passed and are currently in Part One of the professional law training course,” Dr Kumbuor added, noting that the General Legal Council …
UBIDS graduates 70 Law students as Bagbin pledges major health and education interventionsJoy Online
… Attorney-General & General Legal Council 4.1 The Constitutional Challenge The unresolved tension between academic and professional legal education eventually found its way to the Supreme Court of Ghana in the landmark case of Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare v. …
New Path to the Bar: How Ghana’s Legal Education Reforms finally settle a longstanding debateThe Chronicle
… Against this backdrop, the interim directives issued by the Director of the Ghana School of Law, reportedly at the instance of the Attorney General and in consultation with the Chairman of the General Legal Council, raise important questions of law and governance. …
Between Necessity And Legality: The Legal Questions Raised By The Interim Directives Issued By The Ghana School Of LawThe Ghana Bar Association has called on the Judiciary and Executive to operate within the 1992 Constitution's limits, with its President raising concerns about comments attributed to the Chief Justice and reports that some judges may be serving Executive interests rather than the Constitution.
15 September 2026 · The Chronicle →
The Ghana Bar Association has called on the Judiciary and Executive to operate within the 1992 Constitution's limits, with its President raising concerns about comments attributed to the Chief Justice and reports that some judges may be serving Executive interests rather than the Constitution.
15 September 2026 · The Chronicle →
Ghana's Attorney-General has announced a proposed Legal Profession (Practitioners Standards Board) Bill to reform the disciplinary process for lawyers by establishing an independent Disciplinary Committee with clear procedures, separating investigation from adjudication, and eliminating conflicts of interest involving sitting judges on the General Legal Council's tribunal.
14 September 2026 · Joy Online →
The rise of the Law Society of Ghana has ended the Ghana Bar Association's historic monopoly as the sole representative of the legal profession, triggering an existential crisis within the legal fraternity. The dispute stems partly from perceptions that the GBA is politically aligned with the NPP rather than speaking independently for the profession.
10 September 2026 · Joy Online →
The Majority Chief Whip and Ghana Law Society President Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor criticised the Ghana Bar Association for responding to concerns from law firms over lawyer availability during Chief Justice proceedings, arguing that law firms are not GBA members and the association has no basis to respond to their petitions.
11 August 2026 · Joy Online →
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27 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Parliament Speaker Alban Bagbin has endorsed the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies' application to become one of five universities accredited to run Ghana's new Bar Practice Programme for law graduates, following passage of the Legal Education Reform Act 2026 which ended the Ghana School of Law's monopoly over professional legal training.
7 July 2026 · Daily Guide →
The General Legal Council has approved UBIDS School of Law as one of 19 schools to run the one-year pre-bar course, enabling LLB graduates from UBIDS and other accredited law schools to prepare for admission into Professional Law Courses and the national bar examinations.
7 July 2026 · Joy Online →
The University of Business and Integrated Development Studies held its second law graduation ceremony and a special graduation for the School of Graduate Studies. Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and other political, legal, and community leaders attended, with Bagbin pledging major health and education interventions.
6 July 2026 · Joy Online →
The Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170) and interim policy directives represent Ghana's most significant legal education reform since 1960, addressing a longstanding debate among legal educators, practitioners, and judges about the boundary between substantive legal education and professional legal training and who should deliver each.
24 June 2026 · Joy Online →
An analysis in The Chronicle examines the legal and governance implications of interim policy directives issued by the Ghana School of Law on 12 June 2026, which were issued to address a regulatory vacuum created by the new Legal Education Act, 2026, pending the constitution of the Council for Legal Education and Training.
19 June 2026 · The Chronicle →
Vincent Ekow Assafuah, MP for Old Tafo, has raised concerns that Ghana's new legal education framework could indirectly reintroduce entrance examinations Parliament sought to abolish, as the interim directives allow institutions to set their own admission criteria for the Pre-Bar Course.
14 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and the Council for Legal Education and Training (CLET) have agreed on a unified accreditation system for Law programmes requiring a single application pathway, joint inspection, and unified evaluation matrix. Under the framework, GTEC will oversee institutional quality assurance while CLET addresses curriculum and professional training standards, with neither body able to grant full accreditation without the other's approval.
3 June 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
Ghana's Legal Education Act 2026 established the Council for Legal Education and Training to regulate legal training standards, decoupling some functions from the General Legal Council. Under Section 45 of the Act, individual law institutions now set their own minimum admission standards through entrance examinations or other assessments, subject to council oversight.
16 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Ghana has enacted the Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170), replacing a framework established in 1960 that no longer suited the expanded legal education landscape. The new act aims to balance access, quality, professional competence, institutional accountability, and national development as law programmes have grown across public and private universities.
14 May 2026 · Joy Online →
A GIMPA senior law lecturer has welcomed Ghana's newly passed Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025, as a significant step that will ease barriers for law graduates seeking admission to professional training, but argues the reforms should have extended to paralegals, support staff, pupilage, and post-professional training structures. He cautioned that implementation will determine the success of the new framework and flagged concerns about ambiguities in defining law programmes and potential overlaps in regulatory responsibilities.
14 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Kwaku Ansa-Asare, a former Director of the Ghana School of Law, has warned aspiring lawyers against challenging the legality of the 2026 entrance examinations in court, stating that any student who does so will lose. His warning comes amid confusion over whether the Legal Education Bill signed into law by President Mahama has immediately scrapped the controversial entrance exam.
11 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Attorney General Dominic Ayine says the government will immediately implement Ghana's new legal education reforms following President Mahama's assent to the Legal Education Bill 2026. The reforms include dissolving the General Legal Council and establishing a new Council for Legal Education and Training to regulate and accredit institutions offering the Law Practice Course, aiming to widen access to professional legal training.
11 May 2026 · Joy Online →