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Following the massive failure recorded in the 2017/2018 New Professional Law Course Examinations and the subsequent petition to Parliament by the Professional Law Students on 5th March 2019 seeking review of the results of the examination, Parliament has made a number of recommendations for the consideration of the General Legal Council (GLC).

This follows the adoption by Parliament of the report of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on the petition received by the House from the Professional Law Students seeking review of the results of the 2017/2018 New Professional Law Course Examinations which (the report) was presented to the House by Hon. Ben Abdullah Banda, Chairman of the Committee.

Among the recommendations, Parliament called for a reduction in the current remarking fee charged by the General Legal Council (GLC) from Ghc 3000.00 to Ghc 500.00.

It also urged the GLC to re-open the period for remarking of examination papers to enable students who could not apply for remarking of their papers to do so.

In addition, Parliament called for all marking schemes and examiners reports to be made available to students and lectures of the Ghana School of Law .

Finally, Parliament called on the Independent Examinations Council to consider holding Supplementary Examinations for all referred candidates in the 2018 Professional Law Course Examinations in a timely manner to ensure that successful candidates are enrolled this year to pursue their legal course.

Contributing to the debate for the adoption of the Committee's report, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu noted that the nation will always need the service of lawyers as the country continuous with it's democratic governance hence the need to address issues affecting law students in the country.

The Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and MP for Offinso South, Ben Abdullah Banda spoke to Peace FM News on the concerns of the Professional Law Students.