National Bar Exam to replace entrance test - AG Ayine

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, has presented the Legal Education Bill, 2025, to Parliament, while outlining reforms to Ghana’s legal education system.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, he explained that the bill seeks to remove the monopoly of the Ghana School of Law and the entrance exam, which, according to him, had blocked even top graduates from entering the profession.

“What this bill does is to clear the bottleneck, which is that monopoly of Ghana School of Law and also the so-called entrance exam that made it virtually impossible for even students who graduated with First Class from very reputable universities to get into the Ghana School of Law,” he said.

Dr Ayine further added that the bill introduces an accreditation programme to ensure quality control, preventing unqualified institutions from producing law graduates who proceed to the bar exam.

He emphasised that the reforms will guarantee that candidates undergo rigorous training comparable to what senior lawyers experienced before being called to the Bar.

He said, “We are introducing an accreditation program that will make sure that it is not every mushroom LLB school that would produce lawyers who go on to write the Bar exam. There’ll be accreditations and quality control for those LLB candidates.

“Those candidates would have gone through a training that is either equivalent to or better than what I went through or the Majority Leader went through before becoming lawyers.”

The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East also announced the introduction of a National Bar Examination, to be administered by the Council for Legal Education and its Bar Examination Committee, as the new standard for entry into the profession.

“We are also introducing the National Bar Exam so that those who go to law practice courses at universities can all write the exam. You know, that will be administered by the Council for Legal Education and its Bar Examination Committee,” he disclosed.

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Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine unveils the Legal Education Bill, 2025, aims to shift professional legal training from the Ghana School of Law to accredited universities. The bill will also scrap the old entrance exam in favor of a National Bar… pic.twitter.com/pQLHvKAGJv

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