Meet the 11-member Board of the Council For Legal Education and Training
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The board brings together senior members of the judiciary, government representatives, legal academics and officials involved in tertiary and professional legal education.
Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has been named Chair of the new 11-member Board of the Council for Legal Education and Training.
The board brings together senior members of the judiciary, government representatives, legal academics and officials involved in tertiary and professional legal education.
Its members are Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana; Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, Justice of the Supreme Court; Justice Jennifer Abena Dadzie, Justice of the Court of Appeal; and Her Honour Siran Mahama, Circuit Court Judge.
The others are Dr Justice Srem-Sai, Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice; Dr Clement Abas Apaak, Deputy Minister for Education; and Prof Augustine Ocloo, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission.
Also on the board are Prof Kofi Abotsi, Dean of the University of Professional Studies, Accra Law School; Prof Peter Atudiwe Atupare, Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law; Prof Cynthia Forson, Deputy Provost of Lancaster University; and Prof Raymond Atuguba, Director-General for Legal Education.
The composition gives the board representation from the judiciary, the ministries responsible for justice and education, the tertiary education regulator and major law faculties.
The Council for Legal Education and Training is responsible for overseeing aspects of legal education and professional legal training in Ghana.
Its work includes oversight of the Ghana School of Law and related regulatory functions under the legal education framework.
The new board comes as Ghana continues efforts to implement reforms in legal education following the passage of the Legal Education Act.
The Ghana Bar Association has previously called for the full operationalisation of the law and the establishment of the necessary governing structures.
According to the Association, those structures are needed to provide the institutional framework for advancing reforms in legal education.
The board is expected to provide oversight for the development, administration and regulation of legal education and professional training in Ghana.
