President John Dramani Mahama has signed the Legal Education Reform Bill, 2025 into law, introducing major changes to Ghana’s legal education system and ending the long-standing monopoly of the Ghana School of Law.
The new law is expected to widen access to legal education and decentralise professional legal training across the country.
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, described the reform as a significant step toward expanding opportunities within the legal profession following presidential assent to the Bill.
A key provision of the law is the establishment of a new Council for Legal Education and Training, which will regulate legal education and set standards for accredited institutions.
Under the reforms, professional legal training will no longer be conducted exclusively by the Ghana School of Law. Accredited universities will now be permitted to run Law Practice Training Courses for aspiring lawyers.
According to the legislation, the new training model will focus largely on practical legal skills and clinical legal education rather than purely theoretical instruction.
The law also requires holders of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees to complete accredited professional training programmes before sitting for a National Bar Examination.
The reform is expected to address longstanding concerns over limited access to legal education and the centralised structure of professional legal training under the Legal Profession Act, 1960.
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