By Ashiadey Dotse
President John Dramani Mahama has signed the Legal Education Reform Bill (2025) into law, ending the long-standing 66-year monopoly of the Ghana School of Law over professional legal training in Ghana.
The landmark decision opens the door for accredited universities to offer professional law programmes, a major shift many have demanded for years.
Since October 1958, the institution had been the only place allowed to train students for the Ghana Bar. This created a bottleneck, leaving many graduates without a path to complete their legal education.
Under the new law, universities that meet national standards can now run professional legal training programmes, increasing access and easing pressure on a single institution.
The reform is widely seen as a turning point for legal education in Ghana, offering new hope to aspiring lawyers and marking a major step toward a more open and inclusive system. check grammar errors and is the headline factual
