President of the Ghana Law Society, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has pointed to the Society’s work with law students and its involvement in legal education reforms as evidence of its activities before formal accreditation.
Dafeamekpor said the Society was not simply formed to obtain accreditation but had been engaging with students and advocating for reforms in legal education.
“We’ve been supporting students. We’ve been registering students. You know, when students had issues with their exams and all that, the faculty, it was the Law Society of Ghana that had been fighting for their interests,” he said on Channel One TV.
He also cited his work with Madina MP Francis-Xavier Sosu on proposed reforms to legal education.
“If you recall, Francis Sosu and I filed a private member’s bill to bring reform to legal education because of the problems of entrance exams and all that. We did so as members of the Law Society of Ghana,” Dafeamekpor said.
He argued that the Society’s activities before accreditation were part of a longer effort to support students and address concerns within legal education.
The GLS has since expanded its membership significantly. Dafeamekpor disclosed that the Society now has more than 1,500 professional members and over 15,000 student members.
That puts its total membership across the two categories at more than 16,500, according to figures he provided.
Dafeamekpor also said the Society remained patient during the accreditation process rather than treating delays as a reason to abandon its application.
“If you apply for accreditation and they say you should wait, you don’t take it casually. You wait. You have to be patient,” he said.
