SAMSON H. A.
V.
ODDOYE AND 7 OTHERS
V.
THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL
JUDGMENT
The Applicants, per their affidavit in support of the motion as well as their Statement of Case for an order of Mandamus to issue against Respondent, filed on 3rd February, 2017, state as follows:
That they are students of the Ghana School of Law who took examinations of the School in the 2015/2016 academic year and are deemed to have failed in three or more subjects and were therefore required to repeat the class for another year as determined by the Respondent, the body concerned with legal profession in Ghana and which oversees professional legal education in Ghana. The Applicants contend that they were among the 251 students admitted for the professional law studies in the 2015/2016 academic year after a rigorous examination involving over 900 students/applicants, followed by an intensive interview conducted by agents of the Respondent herein.
That the 251 students together with repeating students were distributed among the three campuses of the Ghana School of Law namely th…