Law students petition Chief Justice

Concerned law graduates made up of those who have sat for or about to sit for the entrance examination into the prestigious Ghana School of Law have petitioned the Chief Justice who is also the chairman of the General Legal Council for a pronouncement or an indication regarding the decision in the case instituted by Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare against the General Legal Council and the Attorney General.

The substance of their petition is that since the Supreme Court has declared the entrance examination/interviews for admission into the Ghana School of Law unconstitutional and illegal, they are praying the Council for an understanding of the dilemma in which they have been placed in being asked to take part in an act or a series of acts declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the said Judgment.

According to them, as law graduates, they have been taught that once an act is declared illegal or unconstitutional, it is so ab initio and no action can be founded on an illegality: ex turpi causa non oritur actio.

It is also their case that their rights are being infringed because they are being asked to take part in an illegal act. In their view, the Supreme Court judgement is explicitly clear in the sense that the Supreme Court itself has declared the examination to be illegal and unconstitutional.

It should follow then that they cannot be asked to participate in an illegality.

They are, therefore, praying the Council to grant them automatic admission to the Ghana School of Law as all of them qualify for admission by virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court in the matter under reference.