General News of Thursday, 25 August 2022Source: www.ghanaweb.comProfessor Nii Ashie Kotey, a Supreme Court nominee in August 2018 charged authorities in charge of Ghana's legal education to ensure that students being churned out of law school are equipped with knowledge in law. The nominee, who has over 30 years of higher education development, observed the country’s “legal education is at a crossroads”, noting “issues that we are confronting are very serious”. Supreme Court nominee to push for the Court’s powers to be reduced“We have had very good judges and judgements and decisions in the fourth republic Supreme Court and this would be both from those who came unto the Supreme Court bench from the academia and those who did not,” he observed. Prof. Ashie Kotey contended If there were some concern about quality, “it is at lower [courts] levels than the Supreme Court. “I think with that, the key to improvement is continuous legal education and ensuring that the magistrates and judges are continually improving themselves,” he said.
