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The record Bar intake runs into a legal market built for fewer lawyers
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The record Bar intake runs into a legal market built for fewer lawyers

…The 1,568 lawyers called on 9 October now face scarce and often unpaid pupillage, an annual licensing gate and a profession crowded into three cities. The answer, reformers argue, lies less in rationing places than in building a legal economy that can employ them

Daniel Kojo HOLLIE
Published 1 hour ago10 min read

For a few hours on Friday 9 October, the ICGC Christ Temple on Teshie Bush Road in Accra looked less like a church than a vast robing room. Horsehair wigs, black gowns and white bands moved down the aisles in their hundreds as families jostled for photographs and the General Legal Council (GLC) enrolled 1,568 new lawyers, the largest single cohort since Ghana began training its own lawyers.

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