Justice Mensah is in favor of allowing law faculties to offer professional legal training in order to boost enrollment

A Supreme Court nominee named Justice Philip Bright Mensah has suggested significant reforms to Ghana's legal education system, such as permitting accredited law schools to offer both professional and theoretical legal instruction.

When he appeared before Parliament's Appointments Committee on the second day of the vetting process for apex court nominees on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, he made the call. According to Justice Mensah, the country's number of law graduates is outpacing the current system, which limits professional legal training to the Ghana School of Law [Makola].

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 According to him, the backlog of LLB holders awaiting admission to law school demonstrates the necessity of real-world reforms. 

 In order to review the current system, Justice Mensah urged the Ghana School of Law's administrators, academic institutions, and the General Legal Council to collaborate.

 He claimed that the centralized system might be less burdened if university law faculties nationwide were accredited to provide the professional component of legal training.

 Although he conceded that law schools presently concentrate on theory, he maintained that they could also provide practical instruction with the right quality assurance.

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 "The General Legal Council is responsible for ensuring that quality assurance is implemented if law faculties are able to offer these professional courses," he stated.

 He informed the committee, “Some have suggested that the courses offered at the law school should be integrated into the law faculties,” he told the committee. “That is another way to potentially solve the problem.”

 The pressure on the Ghana School of Law, which he claimed had not increased its infrastructure in line with the rise in LLB graduates, was a source of concern for Justice Mensah, who is currently on the Court of Appeal bench.

 "Only the University of Ghana offered LLB programs during our time. We haven't increased law school facilities proportionately, despite the fact that many universities now offer LLB, he said.

 He proposed a "priority admission" policy for individuals who have already finished their LLB programs but are still unable to pursue professional training.