Students of the Ghana Law School are livid that their suit brought against the Attorney-General and the General Legal Council (GLC) have been clandestinely covered up by the registry of an Accra High Court.
In what the students suspect to be a deliberate tactics to frustrate their suit, they will be expecting that due to the impending legal break, their suit will be assigned to a judge by January 2020.
The case, ‘Ganaku & ORS. Vs General Legal Council and Attorney-General’ concerns the scandalous results of the latest entrance exams of the Ghana School of Law where barely 120 students out of 1800 students were passed to the Bar in what critics and experts have described as a “Scam” exams as the outgoing Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo insists nothing can be done about the abysmal failure rate at the law school.
According to the students, their case was scheduled for hearing on Friday, December 20, 2019, but when they arrived at the Human Rights Court they were told their case was not in the system.
According to the students in reports sighted by Whatsup News, at about 8:00 am Friday, they went to the Accra High Court for a scheduled hearing, but after consulting the court clerk to enquire about the courtroom where the hearing was to take place, they were informed that “the case was not in the system.”
According to the angry litigating students, “… At the Human Rights Court, the clerk admitted knowledge of the case but informed the applicants that the case file had not been brought to the court. At the Court Registry, the applicants were informed that the application had indeed been filed on 12th December 2019, but “they [Court registry] had forgotten to scan it and assign it to a judge.”
Eventually, the students forced the court clerk to assign the case, but he curiously announced to them the judge at the Human Rights Court to hear the application “was indisposed”.
This has sent strong suspicions through the students that the stage has been set for them to be denied justice.
“The circumstances leading to the unusual adjournment of Ganaku & ORS. v GLC & AG are troubling if not mystifying.
When those circumstances are conjoined with the adjournment of Asare v GLC & AG, a case for which an emergency motion has been pending since November 1, it paints a gloomy picture of a calculated effort to frustrate the timely hearing of these cases, which seek time-sensitive reliefs,” said US-based Ghanaian law professor, Professor Kwaku Asare.
“The Judiciary must do all it can to not only do justice but be seen as doing justice. These unusual adjournments are facilitating the 128/1820 scam and sham. They must stop immediately,” he fired.
The students are seeking a declaration from the court that the published results of the examination organized on July 26, 2019, as final is arbitrary, unlawful and void.
They also want the court to force the GLC to publish a procedure for remarking the examination papers of the aggrieved students who insists a remarking will expose the GLC’s deliberate scheming to fail them.